Amount Europe needs to spend on military to protect itself from Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : But Trump has suggested this figure should be raised to 5 per cent while his Vice President JD Vance this week reiterated expectations for European NATO members to manage their own security without an American safety blanket.
46% : The study estimates that the EU and its member states would need to increase defense spending by €250 billion per year - raising total military expenditure from the current 2per cent of GDP to at least 3.5 to 4 per cent.
44% : A Swedish artillery team fires a projectile from an Archer self-propelled Howitzer during the NATO 'Exercise Lightning Strike' on November 20, 2024 near Heinu, Finland 'In a year when it doesn't happen, Trump will be able to say, NATO is just as worthless as I always said it was.
40% : Wolff also delivered a stark warning: despite its heavy losses in Ukraine, Russia has significantly strengthened its military in recent years and could be in a position to attack EU states within the next three to ten years.
34% : Responding to demands by Donald Trump for Europe to pay for its own security, Mark Rutte said members committing about 2% of GDP should go to 'north of 3%'.
29% : Trump has not yet spoken on the possibility of a US withdrawal from the Western-led security bloc, but former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told LBC last week that such a scenario is 'highly probable'.

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