Poland to Make Defense Top Priority During 2025 EU Presidency

Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles during the Armed Forces Day military parade Warsaw, Poland, in Aug. 2023.

Photographer: Damian Lemański/Bloomberg
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Poland plans to intensify its push for increased defense spending when it takes over the European Union’s rotating presidency in January, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said on Friday.

The pressing issue of increasing joint safeguards against Russia is highly divisive with European Parliament elections due this June and Hungary taking then taking over the six-month presidency.