NATO has agreed its common-funded civil and military budgets for 2026, committing around £2.5 billion to strengthening Allied readiness and collective defence as security pressures across Europe continue to grow.
At a meeting of the North Atlantic Council on 16 December, Allies approved a Civil Budget of about £455 million and a Military Budget of roughly £2.1 billion. NATO said Allied defence spending is on an upward trajectory, with nations increasingly investing in both national forces and shared Alliance capabilities.
According to the Alliance, “Allies’ continued commitment to common funding is both politically visible, and practically valuable,” highlighting the role of collective budgets in sustaining NATO’s ability to deter and respond to threats.
The 2026 Military Budget will support NATO’s ongoing military adaptation, Allied interoperability, crisis prevention and management, and cooperative security. It will continue to fund the integrated NATO Command Structure, NATO-led training and exercises, Alliance operations and missions, and capacity-building support for partner nations.
The Civil Budget will maintain support for Allied consultations and decision-making and fund the work of NATO Headquarters in Brussels. NATO said the agreed budgets will “support critical capabilities and promote readiness, making the Alliance stronger, fairer and more lethal” as it enters what it described as a new era of collective defence.
More meetings, more words, more money spaffed away.
What we spending our budget up lift on? Welfare? Empty words, with nothing ever happening just endless long winded press releases, meetings, projects going no where and defection. As it has been for well over a year.
More non stories, Germany and Poland ordering vast amounts of kit, us a few spares and some service contracts and re hashed stories about investment with out investing. And more stories about how knackerd Ajax is after 10 years of trials.
£2.5 billion on nothing?