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NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) and the Directorate General Fire Safety and Civil Protection (DG FSCP) of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Interior are organizing NATO’s 20th Emergency Management exercise, “BULGARIA 2025”. The conduct of BULGARIA 2025 will be from 7 September 2025 to 12 September 2025.

On Tuesday (24 June 2025), Secretary General Mark Rutte called on NATO Allies, partners and industry to “unite, innovate and deliver” to ensure the Alliance is able to “win this new war of production”.

Increasing transatlantic defence industry production capacity is imperative to meet higher defence investment demand signals and support NATO’s enhanced deterrence and defence effectively.

At their meeting in February 2025, NATO Defence Ministers approved NATO’s Updated Defence Production Action Plan. They approved NATO’s first Commercial Space Strategy and Rapid Adoption Action Plan at their meeting in June 2025.

On Monday 23 June [2025] NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, outlined his expectations for the NATO Summit in The Hague. This year’s Summit takes place on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 June and will bring together heads of state and government from across the Alliance; it will be hosted by the Netherlands for the first time.

On Thursday (19 June), NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska met leading Allied industry representatives at the international Paris Air Show 2025 at Le Bourget.

Ankara, 16-17 June 2025 - The Chair of the NATO Military Committee (CMC), Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, visited Türkiye, upon the invitation of the Chief of the Turkish General Staff, General Metin Gürak.

The NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte, participated in the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, on Tuesday (17 June 2025). The event was hosted by the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney.

On 17 June 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will attend the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Canada, hosted by the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr Mark Joseph Carney.

“What if Google Maps was a game?” This question was brought to a whole new level when NATO’s Public Diplomacy Division presented an Alliance-themed Geoguessr game at the biennial European Youth Event (EYE) on 14 June 2025.

Athens, 12-13 June 2025 – The Chair of the NATO Military Committee (CMC), Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone travelled to Greece to meet the country’s top military leadership. While in Athens, he also paid respects at the Monument of the Unknown Solider.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson in Stockholm on Friday (13 June 2025) to discuss preparations for the NATO Summit in The Hague.

From 10 to 13 June (2025), as part of its pioneering initiative Digital Ocean Vision, NATO offered participants the opportunity to test and compare next-generation systems alongside traditional naval platforms, in a digital wargame.

On 13 June 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will visit Stockholm, Sweden, where he will meet the Prime Minister of Sweden, Mr Ulf Kristersson, and attend the Bilderberg Meeting.

On Wednesday (11 June 2025) at the Brussels Forum, NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska underlined the relevance of the transatlantic bond throughout the Alliance’s 75 year history.

Today NATO and Jordan marked an important milestone in their partnership with the signature of the bilateral legal agreement for the establishment of a NATO Liaison Office (NLO) in Amman, Jordan. The agreement was signed by the NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Southern Neighbourhood, Javier Colomina, and the Head of Mission of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to NATO, H.E. Ambassador Yousef Bataineh.

NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS) fosters timely and impactful technological innovation to address security challenges. In light of the changed security environment, the Programme has experienced a significant increase in visibility over the past several years. In 2024, two calls for proposals received 300 submissions – the highest number for one calendar year in the Programme’s history.

On Thursday, 12 June 2025, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will visit Rome, Italy, to meet the Prime Minister, Ms Giorgia Meloni, and to participate in a Weimar Plus meeting in Foreign Ministers’ format.

Four military police vehicles were donated to the Military Police of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina at a ceremony held today (10 June 2025), at the Rajlovac barracks. The ceremony marked the completion of the delivery of this equipment and associated training, under Slovenia’s lead, in the framework of NATO’s Defence Capacity Building Package for Bosnia and Herzegovina.