Germany met NATO's target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defence in 2024, the government said on Monday, though well short of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's call for as much as 5%.

The leader of Germany's conservative CDU, the party's candidate to run for chancellor, said on Tuesday that the nation should focus on efforts to reach existing NATO defence spending targets before discussing any further increases.

James Appathurai, NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid, and Cyber Technologies, stated that recent acts of sabotage across the alliance included assassination threats against industry leaders,

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned of the threat posed by hybrid warfare from Moscow after an underwater Baltic Sea cable was severed. Scholz was speaking as he met Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

Germany is grappling with challenges in funding increased defense spending to meet NATOs target of 2% of GDP, with some analysts suggesting an even higher goal of 4%. Commerzbank (ETR:CBKG) highlights the countrys

Russia indeed planned to assassinate Armin Papperger, the CEO of the German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall, whose company provides military aid to Ukraine, Politico reports, citing James Appathurai, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Innovation,

Multiple NATO member nations have been modernizing their respective militaries in recent years, despite some claims from the current administration in Washington. Poland is already well on track to be a major tank powerhouse, but it won’t be alone.

Trump expects Washington's NATO allies to spend more on bombs and bullets, but nations are reluctant to boost spending.

A new textbook designed for students aged 15 and older frames Russia's war in Ukraine as a continuation of the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany.

The return of Trump will once again put European defense spending levels at the center of the United States’ approach to NATO. Over the past several years, NATO members have boosted investments, with about 20 out of 32 members hitting the alliance’s benchmark of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defense.