On Thursday 25 May, the Allies agreed to develop annual national plans regarding their pledges to increase in due course their national defence expenditure to 2% of GDP.
Speaking after the NATO mini-summit in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced: “Today, we decided to develop annual national plans setting out how Allies intend to meet the defence investment pledge we made together in 2014” (at the summit in Wales). “The national annual plans will help us to...