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- Poland's President Karol Nawrocki proposed a bill to use profits from the central bank's gold and foreign exchange reserves for military spending, aiming to reduce reliance on EU loans.
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized the plan, emphasizing the importance of EU financing for national security against rising threats from Russia.
- Tusk's pro-European government holds a parliamentary majority, making the bill's approval unlikely.
- The nationalist opposition, Law and Justice party (PiS), claims the EU's SAFE initiative could restrict Poland's military flexibility.
- Tusk mentioned a backup plan to access SAFE funds if Nawrocki vetoes the bill.
