February 21, 2025 07:54 GMT
POLAND: Ukraine Still Front & Centre, Finance Ministry Sells T-Bills
POLAND
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for "financing further aid to Ukraine from frozen Russian assets, strengthening air policing, the Baltic sentry and the EU borders with Russia, [and] swiftly adopting new fiscal rules to finance EU security and defence." Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski echoed this call, noting that Poland regularly asks other EU countries to consider these solutions, but some remain opposed to using frozen Russian assets rather than just the interest earned on them.
- Onet ran a source report suggesting that US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz that the US "is not going anywhere" despite its geopolitical pivot to the Indo-Pacific. Hegseth reportedly described Poland and Sweden as model allies in terms of military investment and posture. The article came out as concerns that the US could reduce its military presence in the region in response to Russian demands started to resurface.
- Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski will hold talks with his US counterpart Marco Rubio later today. Rzeczpospolita reported that he is travelling to the US on the invitation of the US side.
- Poland will sell PLN2bn-4bn worth of 52-week T-bills later today.
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