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 "slug": "all-32-nato-members-meet-2-percent-gdp-defence-spending-first-time-1-4-trillion-2025",
 "title": "All 32 NATO Members Meet 2% of GDP Defence-Spending Threshold for the First Time; Combined Spending Tops $1.4 Trillion in 2025",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/all-32-nato-members-meet-2-percent-gdp-defence-spending-first-time-1-4-trillion-2025/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/all-32-nato-members-meet-2-percent-gdp-defence-spending-first-time-1-4-trillion-2025/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-03-26T00:01:00.000+01:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:52:48.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrussels, 26 March 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's Annual Report on 26 March confirmed all 32 NATO member states met or exceeded the 2% of GDP defence-spending benchmark in 2025 for the first time since the target was codified at the 2014 Wales Summit\n * Alliance-wide combined defence spending in 2025: over $1.4 trillion; European and Canadian spending increased 20% in real terms versus 2024; Poland leads at 4.48% of GDP, Lithuania at 4.0%, Latvia at 3.73%",
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  "lithuania",
  "poland"
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  "alliance-policy",
  "policy"
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 "tags": [
  "defense-policy",
  "nato-eu-defense-initiatives",
  "polish-lithuanian-axis"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "germany",
  "nato",
  "poland"
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