{"id":41554,"date":"2026-02-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/?p=41554"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:30:30","slug":"cesky-premier-prohlasil-ze-nezvysi-vydaje-na-obranu-na-35-hdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/politika\/cesky-premier-prohlasil-ze-nezvysi-vydaje-na-obranu-na-35-hdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech PM says he will not increase defence spending to 3.5 % of GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fczech.cri.cn%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2FARTI1772106115951404&amp;display=popup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fczech.cri.cn%2F2026%2F02%2F26%2FARTI1772106115951404&amp;text=%C4%8Cesk%C3%BD%20premi%C3%A9r%20prohl%C3%A1sil%2C%20%C5%BEe%20nezv%C3%BD%C5%A1%C3%AD%20v%C3%BDdaje%20na%20obranu%20na%203%2C5%20%25%20HDP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><strong>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 said in an interview that the Czech Republic will not increase its defence spending to 3.5 % of GDP.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June last year, NATO committed to increase the annual defence spending of its member states to 3.5 % of GDP by 2035 and to allocate an additional 1.5 % of GDP to investment in national security-related infrastructure. Babi\u0161 pointed out that the Czech Republic <em>\u201ewill never take the path to reach that goal\u201c<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/czech.cri.cn\/2026\/02\/26\/ARTI1772106115951404\" title=\"\">CMG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 said in an interview that the Czech Republic will not increase its defence spending to 3.5 % of GDP. In June last year,...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5754,18,309,1950,10863],"class_list":["post-41554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politika","tag-andrej-babis","tag-cmg","tag-hdp","tag-obrana","tag-vliada-cr"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41556,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554\/revisions\/41556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gnews.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}