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Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/eudebates Disappointed with Germany, Poland is reorienting its security policy. Warsaw wants to work with the Scandinavian and Baltic countries to help Ukraine, and stand up to Russia.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was hailed as a bearer of hope in Sweden last month. “Poland is a star,” said the Swedish premier, Ulf Kristersson, commending the government in Warsaw for its high level of defence spending. Tusk confirmed that Poland will spend 4.2% of its GDP on the military this year, and its defence budget is set to increase to 4.7% in 2025.

“Poland is becoming an important player on security policy,” the Swedish news agency TT wrote appreciatively. A photo posted on X shows Tusk and Kristersson in conversation in a rowing boat, accompanied by Kristersson’s dog, Winston.

This was the first time Tusk had participated in a meeting of the NB8 (Nordic-Baltic 8) countries. The two-day summit was held at Harpsund, the Swedish prime minister’s country residence, and concluded on November 28, when Tusk and Kristersson signed an agreement elevating the strategic partnership between their countries from foreign minister level to that of heads of government.

Poland, northern Europe and the Baltics ‘like a fist’

“Poland’s security is Sweden’s security,” Kristersson said after the signing ceremony. Tusk described the closing of ranks between northern Europeans and the Baltics as the establishment of a “solid group of states in solidarity”, a group that “speaks and thinks identically, including on the most difficult issues, which certainly includes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”. He emphasised that “it will send an important message to Europe that, on this issue, we are like a fist”.

The NB8 group has existed informally since the 1990s. It consists of the Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden – and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Tusk proposed a joint surveillance of the Baltic Sea by the navies of the western coastal states – “a sort of Baltic Sea policing” along the lines of NATO’s own Baltic Air Policing mission, which guards the airspace over the sea.

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