According to a Financial Times report based on the latest research from the Leinitz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in Germany, Germany, with a deficit of 14 billion euros, tops the list of European countries having problems meeting the NATO defense budget.
According to a study by the Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Germany, many EU countries, including Belgium, Spain and Italy, which have the highest levels of debt and budget deficits among European countries, also face the largest shortfalls and distribution problems in the NATO defense budget.
The next ranks of European countries with the largest deficits in the allocation of the budget allocated to NATO for their defense affairs in 2023 are Spain with a deficit of 11 billion euros, Italy with a deficit of 10 billion and 800 million euros and Belgium with a deficit of 4 billion and 600 million euros respectively.