Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called NATO’s 5% target “unreasonable” and said Spain would hold its military spending at just over 2% of gross domestic product. Meanwhile, protests are growing among citizens of NATO member nations. On Tuesday, demonstrators marched through Slovenia’s capital to oppose NATO expansion.

Laura Vrhovnik: “This means for us that the remnants of social security that we still have, from kindergartens and schools to the collapsing health system and now pension reform, all of this will continue to be eaten away at, supposedly because we would rather give it to militarization.”