Rockets, tanks, fighter jets. Poland is further intensifying its arms buildup

Monday, Apr 14, 2025

Denik Referendum

Poland heavily invests in defense, increasing spending significantly due to Russian aggression and US policy shifts.

🔗 Read the article on denikreferendum.cz

[This is an automatically generated summary, for reference only]

Poland is making significant defense investments, with military spending increasing as a percentage of GDP annually, driven primarily by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and concerns over US commitment. The country is purchasing modern weaponry like Leopard and Abrams tanks, F-35 fighters, and HIMARS rocket launchers, while also promoting domestic defense industry development through investment clauses in acquisitions. Beyond conventional arms, there are discussions about Poland potentially leaving international treaties regarding anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, with President Duda suggesting interest in nuclear deterrence, possibly within a French umbrella.

🔗 Read the original article

Previous page Members of parliament want to legalize psilocybin and establish facilities where drug users can consume substances under supervision
Next page The effects of lies: "Misinformation campaigns against vaccination for girls began on television channels in Romania, with..."

© 2026 Pulse - Europe beyond the beat


PULSE is an initiative for cross-border collaborative journalism in Europe co-funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement n. PO 4500158093.

PULSE is an initiative coordinated by OBCT that has been promoting intensive journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. Its main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting on and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

Additional outlets and journalists are involved as associate partners, including EUobserver , Føljeton (Denmark), H-Alter (Croatia), Levila (Estonia), Rubryka (Ukraine), and The Journal Investigates (Ireland).

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved. It collaboratively produces new journalistic content on European issues on a daily basis, coming in many different languages. The editorial output amounts to over a thousand publications per year, mostly in article form.

PULSE also runs 4 thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, relations between the EU and other global powers, the EU’s green transition, or media and the information society. These networks function as online communities and periodically publish calls for pitches.