European defense heavyweights say meeting Trump's military spending target won't be easy

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From left: Luke Pollard, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Britain's Ministry of Defence, Poland's Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Germany's Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius, France's Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, and Italy's Minister of Defence Guido Crosetto greet each other after a meeting of defense ministers of five NATO countries to discuss coordinating their defense plans and support for Ukraine, in the village of Helenow, near Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)