Mar 14, 2024 · Mr Stoltenberg underlined that since joining NATO Poland has become “a key Ally and a security provider. You are building one of the biggest armies in NATO. You spend around 4 percent of GDP on defence, topping the NATO table,” the Secretary General said, “and you are adding major capabilities, including F-35s, HIMARS, and helicopters.”

Contributions to NATO’s stabilisation operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of a Nordic-Polish brigade also brought Poland closer to NATO. And Poland’s participation in the Western European Union as a partner helped it forge closer ties with the European NATO Allies. All of these steps led Poland closer to NATO, and helped ease the ...

Jul 10, 2024 · NATO Ballistic Missile Defence’s mission is to protect NATO’s European populations, territory and forces against the increasing threat posed by ballistic missiles. Key elements of NATO’s missile shield include the two U.S. Aegis Ashore sites in Poland and Romania along with U.S navy destroyers out of Rota, Spain, and an early-warning ...

Mar 11, 2024 · Czechia, Hungary and Poland were invited to begin accession talks at the Alliance's Madrid Summit in 1997 and on 12 March 1999 they became the first former members of the Warsaw Pact to join NATO. Drawing heavily on the experience gained during this accession process, NATO launched the Membership Action Plan - or MAP - at the Washington Summit ...

Graph 1 : NATO Europe and Canada - defence expenditure (annual real change, based on 2015 prices and exchange rates) Graph 2 – Number of Allies meeting 2% Notes: Data as at 12 June 2024, based on 2015 prices and exchange rates. Figures for 2023 and 2024 are estimates. The NATO Europe and Canada aggregate from 2017 onwards

Nov 29, 2024 · An important component of NATO’s deterrence and defence posture is its military presence in the eastern part of Alliance territory. In recent years, Allies have enhanced NATO’s forward presence by establishing multinational battlegroups in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. They have also sent more ships, planes and troops across NATO’s eastern ...

Mar 6, 2024 · Troops from France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Türkiye, UK and the US conducted a crossing of the Vistula river near Korzeniewo, Poland, this week (4-5 March 2024). The river crossing was part of Exercise Dragon 24, a Polish-led operational and tactical level multinational exercise and a key element of Steadfast Defender 24, NATO’s largest military exercise in ...

Nov 13, 2024 · NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Wednesday (13 November 2024). Mr Rutte praised Poland’s role as a key security provider on NATO’s eastern flank, highlighting its leadership in defence spending among Allies.

6 days ago · On Monday, 27 January 2025, the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Ms Radmila Shekerinska, will travel to Poland. The Deputy Secretary General will attend the ceremony marking the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Apr 20, 2021 · Poland deployed a contingent of troops to Turkey on Tuesday (20 April 2021), in support of NATO measures to bolster security in the southeast of the Alliance. The long-planned deployment will involve up to 80 personnel, supporting Turkey with maritime patrols over the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea with a Polish M28 "Bryza" aircraft. The mission will also work alongside NATO's naval ...