Italy's Meloni Pushes NATO to Rethink Defense Spending as Rome Raises Outlays

🇮🇹 ROME — Meloni is spending more while demanding NATO lower the bar for everyone else. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Rome lifting outlays while urging a metric rethink lets Italy claim compliance without full 2% commitment — or signals Meloni wants quality-of-spending counted, not raw GDP share. Either way, it repositions Italy as a defense actor during Gulf crisis while hedging domestically on fiscal constraints. Watch whether Berlin or Paris follows: a coordinated push reshapes NATO's burden-sharing debate mid-conflict.