But NATO's new goals are ambitious: The plan is for member states to spend 5% of their economic output on defense. Until now, it has been 2% -- which is what Germany currently spends on defense.

Germany must meet NATO's 2% of GDP military spending target over the long term even after a 100 billion euro ($101 billion) special fund is used up and accept a military leadership role it earlier ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will take part in the Ramstein online meeting scheduled for Monday, July 21, according to a ...

West Germany joined NATO in 1955, choosing security over immediate territorial integrity. Some suggest the same path could be the best guarantee for Ukraine.

Germany and more than a dozen NATO partners aim to jointly procure air defence systems that protect allied territory from missiles, eyeing Israel's Arrow 3 system, U.S. Patriot and German IRIS-T ...

Germany isn’t turning its back on NATO. It only looks that way. The nation struggles to find a role in the new era of Russian aggression. January 31, 2022 More than ...

Germany's President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, left, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, right, participate in a wreath laying ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of Germany's accession to NATO ...

Germany is the prime organizer of NATO’s Framework Nation Concept and, most recently, the efforts to rationalize European Union defense cooperation through Permanent Structured Cooperation ...

The defense spending target for NATO members is set to increase to 5% of member countries' gross domestic product. Germany has said that it supports this U.S.-backed proposal.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine prompted Germany to revolutionize its security doctrine. But the war has also exposed how weak a link the German military is in NATO. By Katrin Bennhold RUKLA ...

NATO can count on Berlin to step up its contribution to the defence of Europe as the Atlantic alliance faces a future more uncertain than 70 years ago when Germany became a member, German ...