Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, reiterated his support for the creation of a unified European air defence system on Tuesday, stating that Europe needs to strengthen its defence capabilities to stay safe and avoid conflicts.
Poland is devoting more than 4% of its GDP to bolstering its defense capabilities in response to the crisis in Ukraine.
At the European Economic Congress in Katowice, which was made up of politicians and business leaders, Tusk said that EU countries need to work together to spend at least 100 billion euros ($107 billion) more on defense.
“Europe must be prepared in the next dozen or so months and the entire next five years for a situation in which no power in the world will dare raise a hand against it,” he stated.
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“Big money will move the war away from Europe’s borders for a long time, perhaps permanently.”
According to him, the construction of a dome over Europe through combined air defense “must become a European project that will be a financial effort.” “We have many more initiatives and meetings than real actions to defend the European sky.”
As per Reuters, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who was present at the congress, stated that more money has to be spent on defence in Europe and that she would suggest new defense initiatives if she were to serve another term in office.
She pushed for the appointment of a full-time EU commissioner for defence, which would aid in bolstering the continent’s defense sector.
