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Trump says will make Spain 'pay' on trade for resisting NATO spending hike

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25-06-2025 | 11:04

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Trump says will make Spain 'pay' on trade for resisting NATO spending hike

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to punish Spain on trade over Madrid's resistance to commit to NATO's new headline defense spending target of five percent of GDP.

"They want a little bit of a free ride, but they'll have to pay it back to us on trade, because I'm not going to let that happen. It's unfair," Trump told journalists at the end of NATO's Hague summit.

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