Agreement on 5% NATO defence spending by 2035
At the 2025 The Hague NATO summit, member states pledged to increase defence spending to five percent of GDP in what is called The Hague Investment Plan.
The Agreement on 5% Defence Spending by 2035 was the principal outcome of the 2025 NATO Summit, held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 24–25 June 2025. Under this declaration, all 32 NATO member states except Spain, which received an exemption, committed to raising their annual defence and security-related expenditures to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035, with progress to be reviewed in 2029.