{"id":1212870,"date":"2022-09-28T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/lithuania-hikes-defence-spending-by-e148-million-this-year\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:04:44","slug":"lithuania-hikes-defence-spending-by-e148-million-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/lithuania-hikes-defence-spending-by-e148-million-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania hikes defence spending by \u20ac148 million this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Riga, Sept. 28,\u202f(dpa\/GNA)\u202f-\u202fNATO\u202fmember Lithuania will increase its defence and security spending by \u20ac148 million ($142.5 million) this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The government in Vilnius on Wednesday approved the allocation of additional funds from the budget after the Finance Ministry revised upward its forecast for economic growth in the EU country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The money will be used to buy armoured military vehicles, HIMARS precision missile launchers, radars and ammunition, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said, according to the BNS news agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania, rattled by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, had decided in the spring to increase its defence spending from 2.05% to 2.52% of gross domestic product.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For 2022, Lithuania had originally planned defence spending of \u20ac1.2 billion. Lithuania borders the Russian Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad and Russia\u2019s ally Belarus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"c212d3a7e02b657b88ced5c5-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riga, Sept. 28,\u202f(dpa\/GNA)\u202f-\u202fNATO\u202fmember Lithuania will increase its defence and security spending by \u20ac148 million ($142.5 million) this year.\u00a0 The government in Vilnius on Wednesday approved the allocation of additional funds from the budget after the Finance Ministry revised upward its forecast for economic growth in the EU country.\u00a0 The money will be used to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[9913,6018,26538,290,1689,293],"class_list":["post-1212870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-defence","tag-hikes","tag-lithuania","tag-million","tag-spending","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}