On Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk goes to Brussels, where the following day will take place Extraordinary European Council on European defence and Ukraine support. During the meeting, which will be attended by president Volodymyr Zelenski, the leaders will talk, among others, about the plan to set up Europe.
Extraordinary summit in Brussels
Unlike the summit in London on Sunday, which was attended by only a twelve European leaders (as well as a fewer outside Europe), the Thursday summit in Brussels will already be held Heads of State and Government of all EU countries. erstwhile again, he will besides attend the gathering President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski. The subject of the talks will be the challenges of the war in Ukraine – on the 1 hand, the support of the country in the face of withdrawal from military aid by the United States, on the another hand, the strengthening of European defence capabilities.
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“There (in London) the determination of the leaders of the European states, as well as the European institutions, was clear – from the Czech Republic to Turkey, from Norway to Canada, due to the fact that besides those countries outside the EU participated in this conference,” said Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday.
According to the Prime Minister, the next talks are scheduled to take place on Wednesday evening before the EU summit. - Thursday we'll be They made decisions. at the extraordinary European Council, he announced.
The talks will concern, among others, the presentation by the EC chief Ursula von der Leyen five-point plan Europe’s rearingto mobilize EUR 800 billion for defence. The plan involves loosening EU spending rules, a debt package of EUR 150 billion for anti-aircraft defence and the anticipation of utilizing cohesion policy to defend itself. His details von der Leyen presented in a letter to EU leaders.
European Defence Cooperation
According to Tusk, there is simply a "essential return" in European policy that is comparable to decisions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister stressed that loosening of budgetary rules – which means that the state will not be "punished" for deepening the deficit due to investments in defence – is simply a request that Poland sought. He besides expressed the belief that this would be included in the conclusions of the Thursday summit.
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According to the Prime Minister, defence activities should besides include investments to defend the east EU border, namely the Polish border with Russia and Belarus, on which the strengthening task arises called "The Tartar East". "My last talks, including this gathering in London, confirmed that I no longer gotta convince anyone in Europe that this is simply a common task, and that this task besides requires joint financing. We already have the first results," he said.
Discussions on EU defence were already held at the erstwhile informal summit convened on 3 February. Another, planned 1 European CouncilIt is scheduled to take place on March 20-21. At the same time, as announced by USA, the current American administration will work to make peace between Ukraine and Russia as shortly as possible. European leaders fear that its conditions will be unfavourable to the country being attacked.
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