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Slovenia to screen films about Palestine instead of Eurovision
13+ hour, 50+ min ago (143+ words) Slovenia's national broadcaster RTV Slovenia will not be showing this year's Eurovision Song Contest, but will instead broadcast a series of documentaries and feature films, "Voices of Palestine". Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain will also not broadcast the song…...
FT: Spain is the only major NATO country that has not yet supported increasing defense spending to 5%
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (320+ words) Spain remains the last major NATO member that has not yet agreed to US President Donald Trump's plan to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2032. The Financial Times writes about this. Madrid is being pressured to commit to this…...
All NATO members have agreed to a statement of the goal of spending 5% of GDP on defense. There is a nuance with Spain
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (189+ words) All 32 NATO countries have agreed to a communiqu" from next week's summit in The Hague, which includes a commitment to spend 5% of GDP on defense and security by 2035. Spain, which had previously rejected the statement, has also endorsed it, but…...