PM Fiala: Czechia aims to reach two-percent defence spending target by 2024

The Czech Republic is aiming to spend two per cent of GDP on defence as early as 2024, a year earlier than the government committed to in its programme statement, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said after meeting with President Miloš Zeman's expert team in Lány on Saturday.

Mr Fiala also said he would represent the Czech head of state at the NATO summit in Madrid in June. The participants of the meeting also discussed the issues of the upcoming Czech Presidency of the EU Council, Russian aggression in Ukraine and energy security.