The bill faces a potential veto by President Nawrocki, who has expressed concern over the EU’s SAFE programme.
The bill faces a potential veto by President Nawrocki, who has expressed concern over the EU’s SAFE programme.
“Allied relations cannot consist of someone constantly saying yes to everything.”
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In addition, Warsaw devotes well over half of its defence budget to equipment, which is also the highest figure in NATO.
Ursula von der Leyen emphasised the “urgency” of protecting the EU’s frontier from the “predator” Vladimir Putin.
The EU holds around €210 billion of frozen Russian sovereign assets, the bulk of them in Belgium.
Poland is already NATO’s biggest relative defence spender, and its budget will rise again next year.
The announcement was made at the opening of Poland’s first satellite mission control centre.
The bill would also criminalise propagating the ideology of historical Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
Participants held up signs showing the names of people who have been killed by Russia during the war.
Błaszczak dimissed the indictement as “an act of revenge” by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
“We are doing this to protect NATO, defend Ukraine and deter Russia,” said the Dutch defence minister.
“It’s yet another violation of our airspace from the East,” said Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski.
An analysis is underway to establish whether it was a military or smuggling drone, or an “act of sabotage”.
The 27-year-old is accused of filming, photographing and gathering information on a warehouse in Lublin province.