The time of rebuilding our defense has started,” Beglium’s minister of defence, Theo Francken, said. Ever since his triumphant return to the White House, U.S. president Donald Trump has resumed his call for NATO’s European members to increase their defense expenditures to the threshold of 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

BRUSSELS — In just one speech by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week, the most powerful member of NATO has thrown the world’s biggest military alliance into disarray, raising troubling questions about America’s commitment to European security.

President Donald Trump's negotiations with Russia and comments from his cabinet have stirred European leaders.

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Acerbating the budgetary crisis, is increasing pressure from Belgium’s NATO partners and especially the United States to increase the defense budget in line with the threshold of 2% of gross domestic product. Belgium, home to NATO headquarters ...

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Finland's Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen and French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu listen to opening statements Wednesday during a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact group at NATO ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is "unrealistic."

Jorge M. Oliveira, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011, as he delivers an address to the media prior to a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in defense ministers format at NATO headquarters ...