The Independent actively reports on crucial issues ranging from reproductive rights to climate change. It is committed to providing unpaywalled access to journalism, enabling informed public discourse. The article also highlights Europe's defense industry, mainly Airbus, amid increased defense spending, catalyzed by shifts in U.S. priorities under Trump, particularly concerning NATO obligations. The focus on Spain underlines the challenges faced in national defense funding, emphasizing a need for more unified spending in European defense.
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The norm for defense industries on the continent is big-name national champions and hundreds of small companies mostly working to fill orders for state governments.
Trump has accused NATO allies of spending too little on their own defense.
The shortfall in defense spending is most evident is Spain.
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