El gasto en defensa de la UE alcanzará la cifra récord de 380.000 millones de euros en 2025
El gasto militar de la UE alcanzará un nuevo récord de 381.000 millones de euros en 2025, a medida que los países destinen más dinero a protegerse de Rusia, según informó el martes la agencia de defensa del bloque.
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The 10-percent rise comes as European members of NATO have committed to massively ramp up spending under pressure from US President Donald Trump.
"Europe is spending record amounts on defence to keep our people safe, and we will not stop there," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
The European Defence Agency (EDA) said that of the money being spent this year, close to 130 billion euros was being spent on investments such as new weaponry.
European countries have stepped up spending sharply since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
A 150-billion-euro EU loan scheme intended to help countries ramp up defence spending has been fully subscribed, the European Commission said last week, with 19 of 27 member states applying for funds.
The SAFE plan enables member states to get cheaper loans backed by the EU's central budget.
Numerous Western militaries and intelligence services have warned that Moscow could be ready to attack a NATO country within three to five years if the war in Ukraine ends.
But the return of Trump -- who has long railed against the continent for underspending -- to power this year has given Europe a fresh shove.
The mercurial US leader extracted a commitment from NATO allies to cough up five percent of their GDPs on security-related spending at a summit in July.
That headline figure breaks down as 3.5 percent on core defence spending and 1.5 percent on a looser range of areas such as infrastructure and cyber security.
"Meeting the new NATO target of 3.5 percent of GDP will require even more effort, spending a total of more than 630 billion euros a year," EDA head Andre Denk said.