V ILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania has decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of overall national economic output starting in 2026 due to the threat of Russian ...

Europe is waking up to the need to invest in defense, and so are European VCs. But with a painful history of Soviet occupations, Lithuania didn’t wait for the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of ...

Lithuania has vowed to increase its defense spending to the GDP percentage level President Donald Trump is demanding.

The head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was responding to a message from hard-right political commentator ...

Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene discusses the outlook for European defense spending amid urgent talks expected to take place Monday between Europe's top leaders on the future of Ukraine.

President Trump has called on NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5 percent, with only three countries ...

spending on defense and deterrence, that’s the most important message,” Frederiksen added. Similarly, the prime ministers of Poland, Donald Tusk; Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda; and Latvia ...

EU countries will hold an emergency meeting on March 6 to work out how to boost defense spending and how to send more military aid to Ukraine. Lithuania, Poland and other countries bordering Russia — ...

Last month, Lithuania's president said his country had decided to raise its spending on defense to between 5% and 6% of GDP starting in 2026 due to the threat of Russian aggression in the region.