Polish leader hits Germany over Ukraine support

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that Germany has fallen short in supporting Ukraine, lashing out at Berlin as Europe searches for ways to continue arming Kyiv.

In an interview following the EU leaders’ summit in Brussels, the conservative Polish leader said the EU’s biggest economy must step up and lead — part of a broader call he made for the EU and NATO to revise their spending rules and unleash massive military investments, according to Politico.

Among his proposals: NATO allies should dramatically jump their spending target to three per cent of economic output, the EU should explore raising new debt for defence purposes and countries should accelerate efforts to repurpose frozen Russian assets for the war effort.

But Morawiecki’s most pointed comments targeted Germany, which has had a fraught relationship with Poland of late.
Germany should be “sending more weapons, sending more ammunition, and giving more money to Ukraine, because they are the richest and the biggest country by far,” he said.

“They were not as generous as they should have been,” the Polish prime minister said. “I still encourage them to do so.”