BERLIN, May 24 (Reuters) - Portugal's new government will work to increase the defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product by 2030 in line with the country's NATO commitments assumed by the previous administration, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said on Friday.

"Our commitment to NATO is total. It can't be just words, it also has to materialise," Montenegro said, speaking to reporters in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. (Reporting by Thomas Escritt in Berlin, Patricia Rua and Andrei Khalip in Lisbon)