Polish, British finance ministers discuss defence spending

20/3/2025 16:30

Poland is discussing ways of working together with Britain and European nations to boost defence production while getting better value for taxpayers, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski told the Financial Times in an interview on Thursday.



Domanski said "new tools" for defence spending figured in his talks with British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves in London on Wednesday, but stopped short of saying if they discussed Ukraine.



"I have a very strong feeling that the Polish and UK thinking about defence is very similar," Domański said, adding that defence funding was his top priority when meeting fellow EU finance ministers and his British counterpart.



Poland had invited Reeves for talks at a meeting of European finance ministers in Warsaw next month alongside Norway's finance minister, Jens Stoltenberg, he added.



Ahead of Thursday's EU summit in Brussels, European Union leaders will commit to do more to make the bloc more competitive, with more military muscle in the face of U.S. tariffs and other economic challenges, and doubts over Washington's future backing in defence.