Poland’s Tusk heads to Paris, Berlin as security concerns, Trump loom large

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk travels to France and Germany on Monday as the three European Union members seek to bind closer in the face of
mounting security risks.
With the war in Ukraine soon to enter its third year and a possible Donald Trump presidency threatening U.S. commitment to transatlantic military alliance NATO, Warsaw, Paris and Berlin see defence unity as essential.
“Europe has to get its act together … this is a matter of answering a question about what will happen if Trump wins. We don’t have time, we must have bigger defence industry capacity,” said a Polish government source.
The source added that Europe urgently needed joint production of ammunition and that Poland was no longer blocking “strategic autonomy”: making Europe less dependent on others.
The shift has been noticed elsewhere in Europe.