Europe Needs to Spend $260 Billion to Defend Itself Without US Support: Study
The Bruegel and Kiel study found that the defense spending of European Union members needed to increase from the current 2 percent to about 4 percent of GDP.
By Chris Summers
2/22/2025 Updated: 2/26/2025
The European Union would need to spend about 250 billion euros (about $262.4 billion) annually to defend itself against Russia without U.S. support, a study published on Feb. 21 found.
The study’s authors from the Bruegel think tank in Belgium and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany said this would require spending the equivalent of 1.5 percent of the EU’s GDP to mobilize 300,000 more soldiers.
The study said the EU would need 50 additional army brigades, 1,400 tanks, 2,000 infantry fighting vehicles, and 700 artillery pieces to prevent a rapid Russian breakthrough in the Baltics.
“This is more combat power than currently exists in the French, German, Italian, and British land forces combined,” according to the study. Europe would also have to produce about 2,000 long-range drones every year.
“German leadership and commitment will be critical,” the study’s authors said.
“Germany would have to ... increase German national defense spending from 80 billion [euros] to 140 billion [euros], or approximately 3.5 percent of GDP, to be topped up with joint EU funding.”
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