Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signal a treaty in Nancy to strengthen hyperlinks between France and Poland | EUROtoday

The assembly place is given in Nancy, in jap France. French President Emmanuel Macron, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will signal a friendship treaty on Friday, May 9, reinforcing the partnership between the 2 nations, an indication of rising weight in Poland Europe, a key actor on the jap flank in opposition to Russia.

The two leaders will meet at 12:45 p.m. within the Lorraine metropolis for a sequence in command of symbols: May 9 can be the day of Europe, which this 12 months celebrates the seventy fifth anniversary of European building, whereas in Moscow the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will attend an imposing army parade on the Red Square, for the eightieth anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. “The objective of this treaty is to consecrate Franco-Polish friendship, and to strengthen in security, defense, infrastructure, energy and a whole series of other areas our bilateral partnership”defined the French presidency.

In the background of this assembly: the battle in Ukraine, which, three years after the beginning of the Russian offensive, didn’t weaken regardless of Donald Trump’s promise to finish it, and a menace of American disengagement which pushes Europe to rearm massively. In this context, the bolstered treaty of friendship and cooperation between France and Poland will “Change the situation”particularly when it comes to safety and protection, guarantees Donald Tusk. The two nations had already concluded such a bilateral treaty in 1991, whereas Poland emerged from the Soviet glacis, after the autumn of the iron curtain, however much less bold.

“Very large European partner”

Emmanuel Macron thus intends to reinforce the connection with Warsaw on the stage of that already acted with Germany, Italy or Spain by the Treaties of the Elysée (1963), the Quirinal (2021) and Barcelona (2023). “Poland is our other very large European partner. There was no reason, it was even an anomaly to consider that we had a privileged treaty with Germany [renforcé à Aix-la-Chapelle en 2019]that we had enhanced our relationship with Italy and to Spain, but not with it ”underlines the Elysée.

Fearing the specter of the good Russian neighbor and lively assist from Ukraine, Poland, a rustic of some 38 million inhabitants, has launched into an accelerated modernization program of its military and has turn into a serious political and army participant in Europe. So far very depending on the United States for its protection, it’s deeply shaken by the local weather of uncertainty generated by Donald Trump’s ambivalences to Europe.

France hopes to strengthen army and diplomatic coordination within the area, and now not let the United States dominate dialogue with the Poles. It additionally places on a brand new marketplace for its protection trade when Warsaw seeks to amass transport plane, ravitors or submarines.

Vital pursuits

Warsaw is within the French concept of ​​a European nuclear umbrella. A proposal deemed “Very promising” By Donald Tusk and who additionally attracts the eye of Berlin.

France is the one nation in Western Europe, with the United Kingdom, endowed with nuclear weapons. The different European nations members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are up to now underneath the umbrella of American nuclear deterrence. But within the face of transatlantic upheavals, Emmanuel Macron mentioned he was able to “Open the strategic debate on protection by our deterrence of our allies from the European continent”.

Like his predecessors, he famous on a number of events that the very important pursuits of France, on the base of his doctrine of deterrence, had a “European dimension”which might subsequently embrace neighboring nations, even past. But he additionally identified that, “Whatever happens, the decision has always been and will remain in the hands of the President of the Republic”.

Concerned concerning the symbols, Emmanuel Macron and Donald Tusk will signal this new treaty in a decor steeped in historical past for the 2 nations, already linked by a secular friendship. Nancy was the residence of the King of Poland Stanislas Leszczynski, who turned Duke of Lorraine after being exiled from his nation, and stepfather of the King of France Louis XV. The reunion of MM. Macron and Tusk will happen in Stanislas, architectural jewel of town.

The signature will happen every week earlier than the presidential election in Poland, on May 18, for which the mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, candidate of the Civic Coalition of Donald Tusk, is given favourite.