PiS MEP Marlena Maląg submitted a question today to the Council and the Commission regarding Poland’s security in the context of the White Paper on the future of European defense.
"In paragraph 23 of the conclusions from the European Council meeting on March 20, 2025, the ‘specific nature of the security and defense policies of certain Member States and the consideration of the security and defense interests of all Member States, in accordance with the Treaties’ was emphasized.” In turn, the European Parliament’s resolution of March 12, 2025, on the White Paper on the Future of European Defense, in paragraph 66, calls for “the establishment of a Council of Defense Ministers and a shift from the unanimity requirement to qualified majority voting when making decisions in the European Council, the Council of Ministers, and EU agencies,” the parliamentary question states.
Marlena Maląg notes that there is much controversy over how EU institutions will interpret these provisions. The PiS MEP asks how the European Council and the Commission—given the stance of Western European countries, which, despite calls from countries in my region in the period leading up to Russia’s full-scale aggression, continued to pursue their interests with the Russian Federation — intend to respond to the Parliament’s call to move away from the unanimity requirement, and whether member states particularly at risk, such as Poland, will be able to freely decide on their own security and the use of their national armed forces. Furthermore, the Polish politician wants to know how EU institutions will address situations where Western European countries take a different position than those directly threatened, and what measures they intend to take to minimize potential threats to the interests of Poland and other countries bordering the aggressor.
