Poland already spends almost 5% of GDP on defence, but the president wants to guarantee that will continue.

Poland already spends almost 5% of GDP on defence, but the president wants to guarantee that will continue.
“It must become a habit, a tradition, that every healthy man in Poland should want to train to defend the homeland,” said Donald Tusk.
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PSL’s leader said the agreement would be voluntary but did not answer whether doing so would be a condition for standing on the party’s electoral lists.
The climate ministry claims that 35,000 tonnes of waste from Germany has been illegally dumped in Poland.
PO has also responded to the government’s plans to increase child benefits next year by proposing that the hike happen immediately.
Councillors in Kraków voted to ban sales between midnight and 5.30 a.m.
Those in favour of restoring capital punishment marginally outnumber those opposed to it.
They argue that the technology, which is still in development, is not sufficiently tested and produces large amounts of nuclear waste.
The justice minister has hit back, blaming the president and PM for blocking some of his proposed reforms.
The rocket artillery system, which Poland first ordered in 2019, has been used to great effect by Ukraine in its defence against Russia.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Both the ruling party and opposition may need far-right support to govern.
PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński also pledged free medicines for children and seniors as well as abolishing motorway tolls.
“Today, the kings of life are those who drink, beat their children, beat women, and have not disgraced themselves with work for many, many years.”
The opposition have called for the defence minister to be fired, but he blames a top general.