{"id":91500,"date":"2024-06-19T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"polish-pm-urges-eu-countries-to-join-polands-program-to-beef-up-border-security","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/91500\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish PM urges EU countries to join Poland\u2019s program to beef up border security"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\n Tusk announcing allocation for the program in Krakow on May 18\n <\/div>\n \n
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June 19, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> European Union countries, including the Baltic states, will most likely join Warsaw’s Shield-East border security program in the next few days, tvp.info<\/em> reported, citing Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most European leaders confirmed their willingness to consider investments to secure the EU’s eastern frontier and in particular, the Polish-Belarusian border, Tusk told reporters following an informal EU summit in Brussels yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Europe will pay for our security because our security on the border is European security,” he stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shield-East, designed to prevent an invasion by enemy troops and protect civilians, is the largest program to strengthen Poland\u2019s eastern border since 1945, W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the Polish minister of national defense, said in late May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program provides for fortifying about 700 km of the frontier, including 400 km of the border with Belarus, before 2028, according to senior Polish defense official Cezary Tomczyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tusk announced in Krakow on May 18 the allocation of $2.54 billion for the program with additional investments expected in the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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