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Estonia boosts defence spending in 2021
Estonia is to increase defence spending in 2021 to ‘strengthen its military capabilities with large-scale procurement of equipment’, Minister of Defense Jüri Luik announced on 29 September.
The defence budget will increase by almost 5% year on year to €645.4 million. This will represent 2.29% of forecast GDP ...
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