{"id":8713,"date":"2026-04-01T00:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:37:19","slug":"polish-president-vetoes-e40-billion-eu-defense-funding-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/01\/polish-president-vetoes-e40-billion-eu-defense-funding-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish president vetoes \u20ac40 billion EU defense funding plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a \u20ac40 billion EU defense loan plan, arguing that the &#8220;Security Action For Europe&#8221; (SAFE) scheme undermines national sovereignty and would saddle Poland with generational debt. Prime Minister Donald Tusk denounced the move as a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; and an act of &#8220;national treason,&#8221; calling an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss a &#8220;Plan B&#8221; to secure the funds despite the veto. While the government views the loans as critical for air defense and anti-drone technology amid the war in neighboring Ukraine, Nawrocki has proposed an alternative funding model using central bank reserves. The government dismiss the president&#8217;s counter-proposal as unrealistic and politically motivated, noting that the central bank has recently operated at a loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 12, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/international\/article\/2026\/03\/12\/polish-president-vetoes-40-billion-eu-defense-funding-plan_6751391_4.html\">lemonde.fr\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a \u20ac40 billion EU defense loan plan, arguing that the &#8220;Security Action For Europe&#8221; (SAFE) scheme undermines national sovereignty and would saddle Poland with generational debt. Prime Minister Donald Tusk denounced the move as a &#8220;disgrace&#8221; and an act of &#8220;national treason,&#8221; calling an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8861,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions\/8861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}