NATO members could make a short-term pledge to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, moving to 3% by 2030, according to the Financial Times.

Four members of the alliance are in discussion to increase military expenditure during the 2025 summit in June.

European NATO foreign ministers began discussing a plan to gradually increase the alliance’s defense spending target from 2% of their GDP to 3% by 2030, the Financial Times reported on Dec. 12, citing undisclosed sources.

Plan to increase defence spending target from 2pc comes as Trump urges other Nato states to shoulder more of the military burden