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June 25, 2025

Protesters Reject NATO's Call to Vastly Boost Military Spending
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called NATO's 5 percent target
"unreasonable" and said Spain would hold its military spending at just
over 2 percent of gross domestic product. Meanwhile, protests are
growing among citizens of NATO member nations. On Tuesday, demonstrators
marched through Slovenia's capital to oppose NATO expansion.

Laura Vrhovnik: "This means for us that the remnants of social security
that we still have - from kindergartens and schools to the collapsing
health system, and now pension reform - all of this will continue to be
eaten away at, supposedly, because we would rather OUT: give it to
militarization."



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