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27 June 2025 Update NATO concludes historic Summit in The Hague On 25 June 2025, NATO concluded a historic Summit in The Hague. Allies reached a decision to invest 5% of GDP in defence – laying the foundation for a strong, united NATO in the years to come, and reaffirming their continued support to Ukraine. Read more NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum 2025 – Time to ‘unite, innovate & deliver’ On 24 June 2025, Secretary General Mark Rutte called on NATO Allies, partners and industry to “unite, innovate and deliver” to ensure the Alliance is able to “win this new war of production”. Read more NATO releases Updated Defence Production Action Plan, Commercial Space Strategy and Rapid Adoption Action Plan At their meeting in February 2025, NATO Defence Ministers approved NATO’s Updated Defence Production Action Plan. They approved NATO’s first Commercial Space Strategy and Rapid Adoption Action Plan at their meeting in June 2025. Read more NATO Allies step up multinational capability delivery cooperation Increasing transatlantic defence industry production capacity is imperative to meet higher defence investment demand signals and support NATO’s enhanced deterrence and defence effectively. Read more NATO AWACS provides overwatch of the NATO Summit in The Hague NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft provided air surveillance at the NATO Summit. Flying patrols over sensitive airspace, NATO AWACS provided part of the Allied contribution to guarding the skies over the summit in The Hague, which concluded on 25 June. (Story courtesy Airborne Early Warning & Control Force) Read more Denmark and Sweden bolster NATO air mobility by joining Multinational MRTT Unit Denmark and Sweden formally joined the Multinational Multi Role Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) on 25 June 2025 during the NATO Summit, strengthening strategic air mobility across the Alliance. (Story courtesy Allied Air Command) Read more NATO is ready to protect our people, now and in the future While citizens of NATO countries sleep safely in their beds, troops from their militaries are standing guard, warding off external aggression. While NATO is facing the most pronounced security challenge in more than a generation, the Alliance is more than rising to the challenge. Watch Video Future-proofing NATO’s industrial capacity: how decisions at the NATO Summit in The Hague will strengthen the Allied defence industry Kaja Karlson, Andreas Paraskevopoulos, Adam Dudas SUBSCRIBE

27 June 2025 NATO Deputy Secretary General to visit Greece On Tuesday, 1 July 2025, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ms Radmila Shekerinska, will visit Athens, Greece, to attend the 29th Annual Economist Government Roundtable and meet with representatives of the Greek government. Media advisory 12:35 (CEST) Speech by the NATO Deputy Secretary General on “Europe’s Strategy on Defence & Security,” followed by exchange of views, at the 29th Annual Economist Government Roundtable.   Media coverage The event will be streamed live on the event’s website.     For more information: For general queries: contact the NATO Press Office For more details on the agenda and registration for the event, please check the event’s website. 25 June 2025 The Hague Summit Declaration issued by the NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in The Hague 25 June 2025 We, the Heads of State and Government of the North Atlantic Alliance, have gathered in The Hague to reaffirm our commitment to NATO, the strongest Alliance in history, and to the transatlantic bond. We reaffirm our ironclad commitment to collective defence as enshrined in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty – that an attack on one is an attack on all. We remain united and steadfast in our resolve to protect our one billion citizens, defend the Alliance, and safeguard our freedom and democracy.   United in the face of profound security threats and challenges, in particular the long- term threat posed by Russia to Euro-Atlantic security and the persistent threat of terrorism, Allies commit to invest 5% of GDP annually on core defence requirements as well as defence-and security-related spending by 2035 to ensure our individual and collective obligations, in accordance with Article 3 of the Washington Treaty. Our investments will ensure we have the forces, capabilities, resources, infrastructure, warfighting readiness, and resilience needed to deter and defend in line with our three core tasks of deterrence and defence, crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security.   Allies agree that this 5% commitment will comprise two essential categories of defence investment. Allies will allocate at least 3.5% of GDP annually based on the agreed definition of NATO defence expenditure by 2035 to resource core defence requirements, and to meet the NATO Capability Targets. Allies agree to submit annual plans showing a credible, incremental path to reach this goal. And Allies will account for up to 1.5% of GDP annually to inter alia protect our critical infrastructure, defend our networks, ensure our civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation, and strengthen our defence industrial base. The trajectory and balance of spending under this plan will be reviewed in 2029, in light of the strategic environment and updated Capability Targets. Allies reaffirm their enduring sovereign commitments to provide support to Ukraine, whose security contributes to ours, and, to this end, will include direct contributions towards Ukraine’s defence and its defence industry when calculating Allies’ defence spending.   We reaffirm our shared commitment to rapidly expand transatlantic defence industrial cooperation and to harness emerging technology and the spirit of innovation to advance our collective security. We will work to eliminate defence trade barriers among Allies and will leverage our partnerships to promote defence industrial cooperation.   We express our appreciation for the generous hospitality extended to us by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We look forward to our next meeting in Türkiye in 2026 followed by a meeting in Albania. Déclaration du sommet de La Haye publiée par les chefs d’État et de gouvernement des pays membres de l’OTAN à l’issue de la réunion du Conseil de l’Atlantique Nord tenue à La Haye le 25 juin 2025 Nous, chefs d’État et de gouvernement des pays membres de l’Alliance atlantique, nous sommes réunis à La Haye pour réaffirmer notre attachement à l’OTAN, l’alliance la plus solide de tous les temps, ainsi qu’au lien transatlantique. Nous réitérons notre engagement indéfectible en faveur de la défense collective, consacré par l’article 5 du traité de Washington, qui dispose qu’une attaque contre l’un des Alliés est considérée comme une attaque dirigée contre tous. Forts de notre unité, nous restons fermement résolus à protéger le milliard de personnes vivant dans nos pays, à défendre le territoire de l’Alliance et à y préserver la liberté et la démocratie.   Unis face à des menaces et défis de sécurité majeurs, en particulier face à la menace que la Russie fait peser pour le long terme sur la sécurité euro-atlantique et à la menace persistante que constitue le terrorisme, les Alliés vont, pour 2035, porter à 5 % la part du PIB consacrée chaque année au financement des besoins ayant trait à la défense proprement dite et aux dépenses liées à la défense et à la sécurité au sens large, afin d’honorer les obligations individuelles et collectives qui sont les leurs au titre de l’article 3 du traité de Washington. Grâce à ces investissements, l’Alliance aura les forces, les capacités, les ressources, les infrastructures, le niveau de préparation au combat et la capacité de résilience nécessaires pour assurer la dissuasion et la défense et s’acquitter de ses deux autres tâches fondamentales, à savoir la prévention et la gestion des crises, et la sécurité coopérative.   Les Alliés conviennent que cet engagement comportera deux grands volets. D’une part, ils vont, pour 2035, porter à au moins 3,5 % la part du PIB consacrée chaque année au financement des besoins ayant trait à la défense proprement dite – c’est-à-dire aux dépenses couvertes par la définition des dépenses de défense agréée à l’OTAN – et à la réalisation des objectifs capacitaires OTAN. Les Alliés présenteront tous les ans un plan national dans lequel ils fixeront une trajectoire réaliste qui leur permettra d’atteindre progressivement ce pourcentage. D’autre part, ils réaliseront des investissements dans le but notamment de protéger leurs infrastructures critiques, de défendre leurs réseaux, d’assurer la préparation du secteur civil et la résilience, de libérer le potentiel d’innovation et de renforcer leur base industrielle de défense ; ils pourront déclarer chaque année sous ce volet des dépenses représentant jusqu’à 1,5 % du PIB. La trajectoire et la répartition des dépenses fixées ici seront revues en 2029, à la lumière de l’évolution du contexte stratégique et du réexamen des objectifs capacitaires. Conscients que la sécurité de l’Ukraine contribue à leur propre sécurité, les Alliés réaffirment qu’ils soutiendront ce pays dans la durée, ainsi qu’ils s’y sont engagés souverainement. Dans cet esprit, les aides qui concourent directement à la défense de l’Ukraine et au développement de son industrie de défense entreront dans le calcul des dépenses de défense des Alliés.   Nous réitérons notre engagement commun à développer rapidement la coopération entre les industries de défense de part et d’autre de l’Atlantique et à mettre les technologies émergentes et l’esprit d’innovation au service de notre sécurité collective. Nous nous attacherons à éliminer les obstacles qui freinent les échanges commerciaux entre Alliés dans le secteur de la défense, et nous nous appuierons sur nos partenariats pour promouvoir la coopération entre industries de défense.   Nous exprimons notre gratitude au Royaume des Pays-Bas pour l’accueil généreux qui nous a été réservé. Nous nous réjouissons à la perspective de nous retrouver l’année prochaine en Türkiye, puis de nous revoir en Albanie. NATO Review offers expert opinion, analysis and debate on security issues. What is published in this magazine does not necessarily represent the official position or policy of member governments, or of NATO Future-proofing NATO’s industrial capacity: how decisions at the NATO Summit in The Hague will strengthen the Allied defence industry Kaja Karlson, Andreas Paraskevopoulos, Adam Dudas At the NATO Summit in The Hague, NATO leaders recognised that in order to deter any future military conflict, Allies will have to pledge to spending 5% of their GDP to defence (of which up to 1.5% may be spent on defence-related investments). This has created the conditions for Allies to channel robust funding into governmental contracts with the defence industry in order to meet the new Capability Targets that are assigned for each Ally to generate collective effect. To meet these targets and acquire capabilities at pace, NATO now has to greatly increase and optimise the capacity of its defence industrial base. The updated Defence Production Action Plan, publicly released at the Summit in The Hague presents a concrete programme to optimise and strengthen the Allied defence industry, maximise its outcomes and increase Allies’ return on investment. READ/LISTEN MORE

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NATO Summit: Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Heads of state and government from across the Alliance are gathering today 25 June 2025 for the second day of the NATO Summit in the Hague.  Click here to download the doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General. All the video footage of the NATO Summit is available here. The programme of the NATO Summit, including photos and transcripts is available on the NATO website.

NATO Summit: arrivals and opening of the NATO Public Forum The NATO Sumit in The Hague started today Tuesday 24 June, bringing together heads of state and government from across the Alliance.  NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte addressed the NATO Pubic Forum, a public event jointly organized by NATO and the Government of the Netherlands with civil society organisations. Click here to download the address by NATO Secretary General. Click here to download the arrivals at Schiphol airport. All the video footage of the NATO Summit will be made available here. The programme of the NATO Summit, including photos and transcripts is available on the NATO website. NATO Summit: Press conference by NATO Secretary General NATO Heads of state and government took important decisions at the NATO Summit in the Hague.  Click here to download the press conference by NATO Secretary General. All the video footage of the NATO Summit is available here. The Hague Summit Declaration is available on here.  The programme of the NATO Summit, including photos and transcripts is available on the NATO website.