"The Masks Have Fallen": Nawrocki's Veto Sparks Warnings over Polexit
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki has decided to veto a law that would allow the country to use almost 44 billion euros in European Union (EU) defense loans, arguing that the military needs to be strengthened, but only on its own terms. The president's decision has drawn criticism from the country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has warned of a possible "Polexit" - the country's withdrawal from the EU if eurosceptic forces gain too much influenc…
The European Commission would help Poland upgrade its defense with a soft loan, but the president vetoed the nearly €44 billion program. The strings are still pulled by Jarosław Kaczyński, who is scaring the Germans and winking at his far-right voters.
Artur Kotowski | In the shadow of the debate on SAFE (and more precisely on the Act of 27 February 2026 on the Financial Instrument for Increasing Security SAFE, which the President of the Republic of Poland refused to sign, hereinafter referred to as the SAFE Act), little is said about another aspect of this matter, namely the relation of this normative act to the constitutional debt threshold, i.e. 3/5 of the value of the annual gross domestic…
By vetoing the bill on the EU SAFE loan, President Karol Nawrocki pointed to the enormous danger posed by making decisions regarding the Polish military's equipment dependent on the will of international institutions. However, Onet wanted to explore the president's other motivations. To this end, it commissioned UCE Research to conduct a survey. However, the idea backfired.
More than half of those surveyed in the IBRiS poll for Radio ZET believe that Karol Nawrocki's opposition to the EU SAFE loan for rearmament of the army is not in line with Poland's interests.
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