According to the reports, Trump's team has told European officials that the U.S. president-elect expected NATO allies to increase their defense spending to 5 percent of national gross domestic product after his Jan. 20 inauguration — more than double the alliance's current 2 percent target.

US President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to demand NATO allies to raise their defence spending to 5% of their GDP. Source: Financial Times, as cited by European Pravda Details: Two informed sources informed FT that Trump intends to push for a defence spending target of 5% of GDP among NATO members,

Donald Trump could demand Nato allies increase defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP, more than doubling the current target. The president-elect’s team told European officials they will be expected to increase military budgets after he takes office on Jan 20, as he passes the burden of the war in Ukraine on to Europe.

Trump now intends to maintain US military supplies to Kyiv after his inauguration, but will demand NATO more than double its 2 per cent spending target.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to push the United States’s NATO allies to increase its defense spending when he returns to the White House next month. Every member of the NATO alliance is expected to spend at least 2% of the GDP on defense,

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spoken out against increasing defense spending above 2% of GDP. He believes that this will hurt the Hungarian economy. According to him, the Hungarian authorities are concerned about the possibility of increasing defense spending to more than 2% of GDP.