Officials organising a NATO summit in The Hague this month are expected to keep it short, restrict discussion of Ukraine, and choreograph meetings so that Volodymyr Zelenskiy can somehow be in town without provoking Donald Trump.

The war in Ukraine and the existential threat that Russia poses to European security has topped NATO’s agenda in each of its summits since 2022

NATO is preparing a summit this month that will involve a single working session to zero in on military spending as leaders seek to win over US President Donald Trump with a pledge to ramp up defense budgets.

NATO leaders appear to be on track for an agreement to more than double their target for defense spending — to 5 percent of annual economic output — by using some creative number-crunching to please President Donald Trump,

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday he was confident that members of the NATO alliance would sign up to Donald Trump's demand for a major boost in defence spending, adding that it had to happen by a summit later in June.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO defence ministers will gather in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to meet Donald Trump’s demand for significant increases in spending, less than three weeks ahead of a key summit of the alliance in The Hague.

NATO defense ministers are proposing a 5% annual investment in defense spending by member nations to enhance defensive capabilities during a meeting in Brussels on Thursday.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says that most allies endorse President Donald Trump’s demand that they invest 5% of gross domestic product on their security needs

Since his first administration, President Donald Trump has stressed the need for U.S. allies to take on more of the burden to offset what he has said are decades of them taking advantage of the United States.