Friday media review; Putin's underwater war; Europe only talks about arms

**Maciej Miłosz:Rzeczpospolita:‘European reinforcement measures inactive only in declarations’**
"The increase in the common purchasing budget, Eurobonds or the increase in the financing of the European Defence manufacture Programme (EDIP) of defence financing ideas in the European Union is few, but so far there are no concrete ones. 4.7% of GDP, or over 186 billion PLN - that is what the government plans to spend on defence in 2025. Over 124 billion PLN are to be distributed under the budget of the Ministry of Defence, and the remaining over 60 billion PLN through the extra-budget Armed Forces Support Fund, which is mainly based on loans, but to which part of the budget of the Ministry of Defence will besides be transferred. Given fresh years, specified ambitious plans are likely to fail, but we are likely to be the leader in NATO in terms of the percent of GDP spent on defence. And although the Polish increase in defence spending in fresh years is awesome (it was inactive little than PLN 60 billion in 2021, which is little than 1 3rd of the planned expenditure for 2025), the European Union is much more sluggish in this area. However, in a fresh interview with Politico, the fresh Commissioner for Defence and Space Litwin Andrius Kubilius stated that in the next seven-year defence budget of the European Union, we should allocate almost EUR 100 billion, which is an awesome amount compared to EUR 10 billion in the current budgetary perspective. The advantage of this solution is that specified a way of recording these measures means that they will actually be spent on defence. The problem is that the next budgetary position does not start until 2028. The common Eurobonds seem to be a much little circumstantial idea."