11
Mar
2025
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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)
Madam President, I'm sorry. "Security, Europe" is not just the motto of the Polish Presidency. This is also the challenge facing the whole of Europe today. And let me be absolutely clear: We have to arm ourselves, because Putin does not want to stop in Donbass, he does not want to stop in Ukraine. And it is not true when he says now that he no longer wants people to die, because if it were, he would not have attacked Ukraine three years ago. Well, although I know that there are still people in this room who would like to do business with Putin – although there are fewer and fewer of them fortunately – and they are spreading Russian propaganda here, including what Russia Today says, it is high time to say stop and enough. That's enough. We need to build a European insurance policy today, and for that to happen, we need to invest huge amounts of money in armaments. And the European Commission's plan to spend up to eight hundred billion euros on arms is a very good idea, but we have to do it quickly, without debate, without consultation, without annual discussions. We just have to do it right now, because we don't have time. And I want to say one more thing. Poland wants to transfer almost PLN 30 billion from the National Recovery Plan to invest in armaments, because security for Europe is the most important thing today.