Sikorski says new Donald Tusk government ready to ‘return to the group of countries creating Europe rather than defending themselves against Europe’
From his strategic lookout point in central Europe, however, Sikorski warned Polish MPs in Warsaw on Thursday that the continent faced a make-or-break moment.
“An attack by Russia on any of the members of the alliance would end in inevitable defeat,” he said, noting that Nato has three times as many military personnel and aerial resources as Russia, as well as four times as many warships. Alongside Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw, Sunak promised to expand security industrial co-operation and boost British defence spending to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product “as soon as economic conditions allow”.
Thursday’s Sikorski speech was the latest address designed to move away from the former Law and Justice administration. It spent much of its two terms in office locked in dispute with Berlin and Brussels on rule-of-law disputes.
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