On June 7 Poland hosted a NATO exercise, the largest in the country's history, with the participation of all bloc members plus Ukraine, while on June 6 the maritime phase of the Baltops-2016 game was launched in Finland. Were these provocations intended to trigger a response from ...
... Movement party led by Janusz Palikot. The Union failed to pass the 8 per cent threshold needed for coalitions to gain representation in the Sejm.
In the event that relations between Russia and the West deteriorate any further, we will probably see a NATO base appear in Poland.
Among other things, the United Left’s defeat created a situation whereby, for the first time ever, not a single left-wing party was represented in the Parliament of Poland – not even those parties that are associated with the socialist ...
... essence of which has been that Russia poses an exceptional threat to Poland to which NATO must respond by providing additional security guarantees to the country. “The question must be raised without equivocation: we need greater guarantees from NATO. Not just Poland, but the whole of Central and Eastern Europe, which has been placed in a very difficult geopolitical situation. We need a greater presence of NATO in this part of Europe and in our country,” Duda said during his inauguration speech.
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... to assure its NATO partners of its unwavering support, all the Pentagon has to do is continue the current policy of conducting joint military exercises and maneuvers. At the insistence of the U.S., the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania decided in February 2015 to set up six NATO command and control centers. The centers will begin fully operating in June of next year and there is every reason to believe that the Ukrainian crisis will remain on the agenda of these nations by that time. The U.S. has also actively contributed ...