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European officials pitch new idea to shore up defenses with Trump's return

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Eight NATO countries did not meet their 2% target for defense spending in 2024 .

The European Commission estimates about 500 billion euros, the equivalent of $524 billion in investments, are needed in the coming decade .

A defense, security and resilience ( DSR) bank would issue bonds backed by AAA ratings for financially strapped countries to upgrade their defenses.

We need to create some sort of mechanism, and that kind of global defense bank would be one of the tools that we could use to rally the capital and really direct it toward defense. So, it's really creating another multilateral lending institution." Original article source: European officials pitch new idea to shore up defenses with Trump 's return.