"To keep our nations safe, we need to keep working to increase defense spending and fairer burden-sharing across our alliance," Stoltenberg said a day before NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels to discuss greater security expenditure, which U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for.
"After years of decline, in 2015 we saw a real increase in defense spending across European allies and Canada ... this year, we foresee an even greater real increase of 4.3 percent," he told a news conference.
Canada, European NATO states to raise defense spending by 4.3 percent in 2017
28 June 2017
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European allies of NATO and Canada will increase defense spending by 4.3 percent in 2017, marking a cumulative $46 billion jump since cuts stopped in 2014, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
