GDP for military defense, a share agreed upon among NATO members in 2006. Italy had the third highest defense spending with around 21.1 billion euros. All remaining EU-27 countries spent less than ten billion euros.
In 2020, France and Germany had the highest military budgets of the European Union (EU-27) members with around 38.6 billion euros and 33.2 billion euros, respectively. However, both France and Germany invested less than two percent of their General government expenditure on military defense in the European Union (EU-27) in 2020, by country (in million euros)
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