Highly indebted Italy aims to honour its pledge to boost its domestic defence budget to at least 2% of GDP from around 1.5% in 2024 without that leeway, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti told ...

UK Finance Minister to Call for Defence Spending Cooperation at EU Meeting LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves will call on her European Union counterparts on Friday to work ...

Similarly, the UK government has committed to raising defence spending to 2.5% of GDP and wants to spend at least 10% of its defence budget on “innovative technologies”. ARX looks to ...

Britain's defence industry is urging the EU and UK to strike a security pact ... a "Readiness 2030" plan to boost defence spending and joint procurement across the bloc to the tune of €800 ...

The Resolution Foundation has suggested how allocations of funding in the UK government's spending review could deliver an average £370 cash-equivalent gain per year to the country's poorest ...

SYDNEY -- New Zealand released Monday a defense plan under which spending would rise to 2% of gross domestic product from the current 1% within eight years, aiming to strengthen deterrence with an ...

(Mark Schiefelbein/AP) President Donald Trump this week unveiled plans for a $1 trillion defense budget next year, a massive increase that he claimed will provide the country with unmatched ...

FILE - Rose Wanyua Wanjiku, elder sister to Agnes Wanjiru, 20, holds a photograph of Agnes, at Rose's house in the Majengo informal settlement in Nanyuki, Kenya Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo ...

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Britain has successfully tested of a new engine for hypersonic missiles in a crucial step forward for the UK’s defence capabilities in light of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The critical ...