{"id":247330,"date":"2024-08-29T00:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247330"},"modified":"2024-08-29T00:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:58:47","slug":"poland-to-increase-its-spending-on-defense-in-2025-to-a-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/poland-to-increase-its-spending-on-defense-in-2025-to-a-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to increase its spending on defense in 2025 to a record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">WARSAW, Poland, 28 Aug (AP) \u2014 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the 2025 state budget will include record-high spending on defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tusk on Wednesday presented the main points of next year\u2019s budget, which he described as \u201cgenerous\u201d and supporting further economic growth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tusk said some 186 billion zlotys ($48.5 billion) will be spent next year on increasing the defense of the nation, which borders war-torn Ukraine and where security concerns are high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is a great effort but there is no turning back from it,\u201d Tusk said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the amount was a significant increase from defense spending in 2024, which accounts for over 4% of Poland\u2019s GDP. Poland is a leader in NATO and in the European Union in defense spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Wziatek told Polish media that spending on defense next year will reach 4.7% of GDP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poland, which supports Ukraine\u2019s struggle against Russia\u2019s invasion, is making large purchases of military equipment, including from the U.S. and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poland\u2019s economic growth is expected to be 3.9% next year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WARSAW, Poland, 28 Aug (AP) \u2014 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the 2025 state budget will include record-high spending on defense. Tusk on Wednesday presented the main points of next year\u2019s budget, which he described as \u201cgenerous\u201d and supporting further economic growth. Tusk said some 186 billion zlotys ($48.5 billion) will be spent next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}