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- Poland secured the EU’s SAFE loan, about €43.7 billion, to fund a 60 billion-zloty defence programme.
- The defence ministry awarded 60 billion zloty to domestic firms for tracked infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled howitzers and mortars.
- Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz condemned President Karol Nawrocki’s veto of a SAFE-loan bill, urging executive action.
- Defence minister Mariusz Blaszczak warned the loans could raise EU influence over weapons choices and cut U.S. purchases.
