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Spain wins exemption from NATO's 5% defense spending goal Spain obtained an exemption from NATO’s ambitious defense spending target of 5% of GDP after several days of diplomatic wrangling that drew scorn from Donald Trump, right before leaders of the military alliance gather on Tuesday. “We fully respect the legitimate desire of other countries of increasing their defense investment but we won’t do it,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday afternoon. The country can get defense expenditure up to 2.1%, “nothing more, nothing less.” In a letter to North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Mark Rutte dated Sunday seen by Bloomberg, Sanchez said Spain will meet the alliance’s ambitious new weapons and troop targets, but without committing to the price tag that NATO had attached to it. Spain will decide on how to comply with the targets and that the statement adopted at the summit will give Spain “flexibility” to “determine its own sovereign path for reaching the capability targets,” Rutte said in his own letter to Sanchez on Sunday. NATO has said that 3.5% of GDP was needed to meet these targets, up from 2% currently, while an addition 1.5% in defense-related spending would help it reach Trump’s desired 5%. Earlier on Sunday, the group tweaked the draft statement’s language to “allies” commit to spending 5% of GDP on defense, from
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