Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for an end to competition between European states on security issues after meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Warsaw on Tuesday.
We must encourage all our partners to fully coordinate systems, equipment and security policies, so that there are more effective actions and fewer conferences and political initiatives. I am glad that we have found a common language.
Tusk stated that the security discussion provided a good example of the UK and Poland co-ordinating their actions.
“There is no doubt that a coordinated security policy covering the entire continent must immediately emerge from various initiatives. And this is our intention: we must end the time of competition.”
Sunak reported that he had discussed with Tusk the possibilities of the arms industry. According to him, Typhoon fighter jets would patrol Polish airspace.
We are allies forever. We in the UK will never forget that it was Polish pilots who saved our lives by fighting in our skies.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sunak and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who was also visiting Warsaw, together with Tusk and National Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz paid a visit to the Gen. Tadeusz Kościuszko First Warsaw Armoured Brigade near Warsaw.
Kosiniak-Kamysz claimed that the UK was one of Poland’s key partners in the modernisation of the Polish armed forces. British defence technology is used in Poland’s short-range anti-aircraft systems and in the construction of Polish Miecznik frigates.
