Spain has rejected a NATO proposal to spend 5% of gross domestic product on defense needs that’s expected to be announced next week.

Spain was the lowest spender in the trans-Atlantic alliance last year, directing less than 2% of its GDP on defence expenditure. View on euronews

Spanish PM Sánchez has told Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte that the proposed increase in the alliance’s defence spending target to 5% of GDP would be “not only unreasonable, but also counterproductive”,