His allies NATO began to work for an agreement to a significant increase in defense spending in a way that can reassure the US president’s requirement Donald Trump In spending 5% of GDP on defense, according to Bloomberg.

Military alliance negotiators are making progress on a march to achieve 5% of GDP for defense by 2032, before the NATO summit in Hague in June, according to a diplomats with knowledge of the issue. NATO Foreign Ministers will discuss the initiative at a meeting on Wednesday and Thursday at the Turkish resort of Antalya.

The meeting takes place in a climate of diplomacy, as the Trump government is pushing to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, which lasts more than three years. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said he was ready to meet face -to -face with Vladimir Putin in Istanbul on Thursday. The Russian leader has given no sign that he will come to Turkey.

The deal on defense spending on the scale required by Trump – none of the 32 NATO members, including the US, has reached this limit – would mark the largest increase by Western allies since the end of the Cold War.

Since his first term, Trump has shaken his allies because they do not meet the long -term 2% limit for spending. Eight of the 32 allies had not achieved 2% of the expenditure during NATO’s annual report in April.

NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte is pushing the allies to agree to a level of 3.5% of GDP for the next seven years, with an additional 1.5% intended for a wider set of defense -related costs. Rutte set up his expectations in a letter sent to NATO partners in early May, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Souf told reporters last week.

Speaking to reporters in the US last month, Rutte said that the goal of the Hague Summit – Trump’s first after returning to the White House – will be the balance of spending within the Alliance, taking into account the excessive proportion of the US and the US.

The US today represents 64% of alliance defense spending, with Canada and Europe contributing 36%, according to estimates of 2024 in the latest NATO report.

The defense ministers in Antalya will discuss the type of costs that will be counted in the 1.5%component, including areas such as military mobility, dual -use goods and cyberspace, diplomats said, adding that the talks are in the original. It remained unclear if this section would include existing expenses or would require new commitments. Even the aid to Ukraine can fall into this category, according to a senior Turkish official.

Some NATO members, including Italy and Spain, have just recently announced the 2%level. Everyone is expected to reach the old limit until the summit, according to a Bloomberg source.

Hague meeting

The main target of 3.5% is based on new ambitious defense plans drawn up by NATO. The alliance has distributed detailed, highly secret lists of weapons and other possibilities to members’ governments, which the head of the defense ministers will discuss in Brussels on Wednesday.

Catalogs, known as opportunities goals, have been widely accepted by the Allies and are likely to be signed at a meeting of the Defense Ministers in Brussels in early June, according to agency sources that are aware of the issue and will be expected to be officially approved by the 25th and 25th Council.

According to European diplomats, the summit is expected to be shorter than previous meetings and focus on spending and increasing industrial activity, culminating in a brief statement. One diplomat said the issue would be the alliance – and not the future of Ukraine within it.

Trump’s skepticism about Ukraine’s accession to NATO has currently removed this debate from the table – and no $ 40 billion -tone extension has also been discussed to support the nation -damaged nation, which was drawn up last year.

Another Route initiative on the table is to reform the effectiveness and internal governance of the Alliance, Bloomberg sources said. The reform effort could be attractive to the US president, a source from the agency said.