EU countries in NATO. Part II

• Author: Antonoaie C.
• Pages: 187-192

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series V: Economic Sciences • Vol. 10 (59) No. 1 - 2017

EU countries in NATO.

Part II

Cristina ANTONOAIE1

Abstract: The European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are strategic

partners. EU and NATO share 22 of their member states, and five EU member states are

members of NATO's Partners hip for Peace. The two organizations are promoting the same

principles and values and they are sharing the same strategic interests. They also work

together for managing different crisis. In this paper we will present the main defense

expenditure indicators in the EU member states using the latest available data, and we will

also focus on the evolution of those indicators over the last years in Romania.

Key-words: defence expenditure, GDP, NATO, EU

1. Introduction

Just like in the previous paper – EU Countries in NATO. Part I – we begin by

enumerating the EU member countries that are also part of NATO, in alphabetical

order of the country code: Belgium (BE), Bulgaria (BG), Czech Republic (CZ),

Denmark (DK), Germany (DE), Estonia (EE), Greece (EL), Spain (ES), France

(FR), Croatia (HR), Italy (IT), Latvia (LV), Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU),

Hungary (HU), Netherlands (NL), Poland (PL), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO),

Slovenia (SI), Slovakia (SK), United Kingdom (UK).

The other EU member countries (except Cyprus) – Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta

and Sweden are part of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC).

2. Objectives

The objective of the present paper is to present the evolution of the defense

expenditure indicators in the last year – estimated 2016 – with the aid of the data

from SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. This database provides information

about military expenditure by country, presented according to the calendar year.

1 DRESMARA, antonoaie.cristina@crmra.ro