The Balts still need to treat their soldiers better, and to increase defence spending (though so do bigger and richer members from western Europe).

波罗的海人仍然需要更好地对待他们的士兵并增加防务开支（尽管来自西欧更大更富有的成员也需如此）。

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The increase will, however, be only short-lived since defence - like every other department - will feel the squeeze from the spending restraint deemed necessary to reduce the budget deficit.

但是这个增长是短命的，因为国防部——和其他各部一样——感受到必须撙节费用以降低预算赤字的压力。

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Boeing, which makes the F-15, wants to increase its overall export sales from 16% of its defence business to 25%.

据称，生产f - 15的波音公司希望其军火业务销售总额从16%增长到25%。

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It also says the government will aim to increase defence spending to 2% of GDP.

BBC: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard

And its most recent budget would increase defence spending by just 1.5%, a far cry from the 9% average growth in 2006-09.

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Germany is unlikely to increase defence spending, a long-standing American demand.

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