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Surrounded by conflicts and under pressure from Washington, NATO opens a summit in the Hague on Tuesday in which it will formalize its goal of drastically increasing the defense spending, with the doubt of the lace of Spain, which is considered exempt from investing 5% of its GDP. US President Donald Trump, whose country contributed 62% of the expense of the alliance in defense last year, has insisted vehemently that Europe must do more to guarantee its safety. And that goes through an ambitious objective: that each country invest in it 5% of its respective GDP. Otherwise, the American president, who will meet on Wednesday in The Hague with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, threatens to significantly reduce his military presence in a continent shaking by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Collecting the general feeling among European leaders, the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, wants Trump to get satisfied with the appointment. “The commitment of US President and the American leadership with NATO is total,” but we must address “that stone in the shoe” that is the fact that “Europeans and Canadians do not invest enough,” Routte said on Tuesday. The coming increase is of order, since in 2024, according to data from the Alliance, the average defense expenditure between European and Canada members was 2%, the objective prevailing so far. Washington invested 3.2%. To pave the land in this process dependent on consensus, budgets and parliamentary approvals, the objective of 5%, by the year 2035, is composed of two legs: 3.5% of military spending in strict sense, plus 1.5% investment in areas such as cybersecurity, infrastructure and border protection, of both civil and military utility.