BBC News Posted on 25/6/2025 at 11:12:39 PM by bayeu
BBC News:
"Trump’s trade threat to Spain over Nato spending
In his press conference at the Nato summit, President Trump threatened to make Spain “pay twice as much” as part of any future trade deal because the country has not agreed to increase its defence spending to 5% of national output by 2035 – which is the new target set by the alliance.
“Spain is the only country out of all of the countries that refuses to pay… but they’ll have to pay it back to us on trade,” he said.
Earlier, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said at his own news conference that Spain would achieve the military capabilities that Nato had asked it for, but was still talking about spending 2% of GDP on defence, which his government has agreed to do this year".
"The US president was very critical of Spain, which has said it will not meet the 5% defence spending threshold agreed on by other Nato members by 2035, saying "they want a little bit of a free ride" Replies:
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Gracias por sus intervenciones en este foro, recuerde que los temas relacionados con la Armada deben ser tratados en el foro de la Armada española pudiéndose tratar en este mismo foro si fuere necesario para el adecuado desarrollo del tema que se está tratando en mensajes anteriores.