Poland, who is looking for security guarantees, signs a treaty expanded with France

It is not surprising that the Elysee Palace, the city of Nancy, located east of France, chose a place for a summit with Donald Tusk, prime minister of Poland, in order to sign the “rewarded and treaty cooperation and friendship”, which brings France and Poland for years, and the two parts are betting to push their various relationships forward, especially for the safety and the connection.

And the choice of “Nancy” because of his guest of the king of Poland Stanislas Lescenski in 1737, after reviving the throne, then chose to resort to France, the father of his queen, the wife of King Louis XV. “Stanislas Square”, the most beautiful square in the city, bears the name of the Polish king, to which “The Duchy of Lauren” was subsequently granted, and is adjacent to Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg.

In the same way, it is not surprising to choose the date of May 9 to sign the Treaty, as it is “the day of Europe”, and the two sides have chosen it to emphasize the importance of cooperation and solidarity between the Europeans, while the mouse around the European Union remained the Ukrainian war and the fears of the United States round, under the Donald Trump, from Europe, but also the start of NATO.

Defense priority

The summit of Macron -taska after a similar summit that brought together the German councilor Ferdrich Mertz and the Polish Prime Minister last Wednesday, immediately after taking his new position and after meeting President Macron in Paris. It should be noted that the three countries (France, Germany and Poland) constitute the “Weimar triangle” so called, which is a platform for cooperation, consultation and coordination between the three parts.

The last treaty is the fourth of its kind foreseen by France, since it has concluded similar treaties with the main surrounding countries (Germany, Italy and Spain). As a result, it is the first of its kind between France, the nuclear state with a permanent seat in the Security Council and between an Eastern European country. According to French presidential sources, the war in Ukraine has been going on for more than 3 years is the main motivation for the rapprochement between the two parts.

The signed treatise, which was distributed by Palazzo Elysee, arrived on Friday afternoon, in 16 pages and 19 chapters, with a complete introduction and all the cooperation sectors between the two parts. However, the separation between “security and defense” is main, as it includes 17 articles that stipulate the strengthening of European defense and the ability of the Europeans to “move independently to face direct or future threats and challenges”.

However, the most important article provides for “the supply of mutual assistance, including military vehicles”, in the event that one of the two parties is exposed to a military attack “, according to the fifth article of the Atlantic Treaty and the 42nd article of the European Union Treaty”. Furthermore, “each part undertakes to facilitate the crossing and station of the armed forces of the other part on its lands”, as well as cooperation in the field of defense industries and strengthening them in the European framework.

The Treaty provides for permanent consultation mechanisms at different levels, including an annual summit. The ninth article provides for cooperation in the civil nuclear sector and how to develop it to serve the carbon economy.

After signing the first letters, Macron said that an aspect of the main treatise is the “joint defense article”. However, he warned that the Treaty “does not sing by NATO or from the European Union”, but rather “strengthens what is already existing”. The task had praised the “mutual security guarantees” before him, referring to the object that draws a scenario that could happen if one of the parties had been attacked.

Ukraine was not absent, since Macron announced that Paris will participate on Saturday in the alliance of the alliance “, which will be held in Ukraine herself. For her part, the task denied the Europeans who participated in the Moscow celebrations on Friday, considering that” there is no doubt in my mind than being in the procession of victory in Moscow and applause to the president Putin … Porta shame to all those who are there “.

French nuclear umbrella

The fact is that both countries try to achieve their goals. The task revealed, before arriving in Nancy, the ambitions of his country, in an interview with journalists. He believed that the Treaty includes measures for mutual assistance to the two sides, in case of attack on one of them. “I don’t hide that the most important problem for me is the problem of guarantees of mutual security,” said Task. This article relating to mutual support in case of aggression against one of our two countries is the essence of this treaty.

In addition, Tusk expressed his interest in French nuclear umbrella and therefore the German consultant. President Macron has previously announced that Paris is “ready to launch a discussion” on the extension of the French nuclear umbrella to include European countries. However, Task explained that the treaty is not “an alternative” to the American nuclear umbrella, underlining that Poland “needs it to be a strong European Union”.

Paris is a similar position, as it sees that the French nuclear umbrella will not replace the guarantee of American security, but will complete the defense of Poland if it will face threats. However, the fate of nuclear cooperation needs discussions and consultations and is still at the beginning, especially within France, where there are currents that refuse to “share” in the nuclear force established in order to “defend the vital interests of the country, which have not been clearly determined.

Paris wants to improve defense cooperation with Poland, which dedicates the greatest percentage of its raw production to defensive expenditure (about 5 percent) and has the greatest armed forces within the European Union. France, which led the defensive industries, aspires to occupy the second rank in the sales of the world in the world, to aspire to be the favorite destination for Poland later, which has chosen, to date, to go to the United States, as well as towards South Korea.

The French presidency explained that “the goal of this treaty is to perpetuate the French polentic friendship and to improve our bilateral partnership in the safety, defense, infrastructure and energy areas and a complete series of other areas”.

Benjamin Haddad, French minister of European affairs, told Rlt that Poland “a partner that we have neglected for a certain extent for a long time”. The sources of Elysee have promised that “Poland our other main European partner. There is no reason, but rather it was to promise that we have treated distinct with Germany, Italy and Spain and not with Poland. “

Warsaw “First Defense”

Faced with the Ukrainian war and the absence of serious progress in American mediation, the “Weimar” trio, in collaboration with the British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, wants to be the largest and most solid block standing in the face of Russian ambitions. The four countries are part of the “alliance of those who wish”, that it has been discovered that Mertz has reached the chancellor, an active and enthusiastic party to go beyond what was accepted by the former councilor Olaf Schultz on the question of the support of Ukraine.

In any case, the four countries see in Poland the “advanced line” against Russia and in the protection of NATO Eastern wing. To date, Warsaw has played the main role in providing military aid to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The French military personnel believed that the image of the Polish forces has witnessed a fundamental positive change with the outbreak of the Ukrainian war, as his defense systems occurred, his military purchases and the number of his forces increased.

The newspaper “Le Figaro” in its Friday edition of the military expert Alexander Olish, who works for the Polish platform “Davis 24”, said that Warsaw “is looking for further security guarantees that reduce his addiction to Washington”, adding that “building a close alliance with a nuclear force (in addition to Washington) is important for Poland”. The Polish Defense Minister assured the newspaper itself, the interest of his country for French nuclear trends, which are still in its beginnings.

For its part, Paris hopes that the new step with Poland leads to its transformation into “main axes” of Poland, so that dialogue did not remain limited to Washington. He is also betting on the interest of Warsaw to obtain military transport or fuel planes in the air for 32 planes made by Us, which Warsaw will get after 5 years.

The two parts indicated a completely different climate from what was before the activity returned to power in 2023. The evidence of this is that Warsaw had canceled a contract to buy 50 French rains of “Krakhal”, who approved relations with Paris for years.