The North Atlantic Alliance plans to set new specific targets for how many weapons systems NATO member states should produce by 2025.
Bloomberg learned about this from anonymous sources, writes “European Pravda”.
According to Bloomberg, NATO is seeking to define specific commitments for member states regarding the production of tanks, artillery and other types of weapons.
The priorities, according to one of the agency's interlocutors, will be to strengthen air defense, offensive weapons systems and nuclear deterrence potential.
Sources also say that the new targets could lead to an increase in the minimum defense spending rate by NATO countries to 3% of GDP instead of the current 2%.
The Alliance plans for the targets to be agreed upon by NATO foreign and defense ministers by the next summit in June 2025, but admits that the deadlines may be postponed, writes Bloomberg.
NATO members have pledged to increase defense spending to counter the threat posed by Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and amid the election of US President Donald Trump, who has demanded that European members increase their contributions to collective security.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has previously said that allies will definitely start discussing a higher defense spending target than 2% of GDP, as current spending levels will not be enough in the future.
Poland is known to make joint defense financing in the European Union a priority during its presidency of the EU, given the anxiety caused by the war in Ukraine and the return of NATO skeptic Donald Trump to the White House.