Spain was the lowest spender in the trans-Atlantic alliance last year, directing less than 2% of its GDP on defence expenditure. View on euronews

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, in a letter to NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, said Spain 'cannot commit to a specific spending target in terms of GDP' at next week’s NATO summit in The Hague.

Spanish PM Sánchez has told Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte that the proposed increase in the alliance’s defence spending target to 5% of GDP would be “not only unreasonable, but also counterproductive”,