Tag: 5 percent of GDP

45% Germans for 5% of GDP on defence

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius looks out of the turret of a Leopard 2A6 during a presentation | File Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa

Some 45 percent of German respondents favour spending 5 percent of GDP on defence that compared to 37 percent who oppose it, with 18 percent saying they don’t know, a poll from YouGov conducted for the Munich-based newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung showed.

Europeans divided on increased NATO defence spending

A NATO flag flies in the wind in front of NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on April 03, 2025 | Photo: Anna Ross/dpa

A survey published on Monday by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) found that support for increased defence spending is highest in Poland and Denmark (70 percent), followed by Britain (57 percent), Estonia (56 percent) and Portugal (54 percent).