2025-04-28 20:22
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2025-04-28 20:22
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that on May 9 France and Poland would sign a treaty on friendship and cooperation in Nancy. This contract has been announced for months. It will replace the previous treaty, concluded in the 1990s.
In an interview with the weekly “Paris Match”, Macron announced that on May 9 he would host the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Nancy, “to sign a friendship treaty”, and described this agreement as “historical”.
The document will be signed with a symbolic place for Polish-French relations. In this city, in 1736, after exile from the country, he settled as a prince of Lotaryfa, Polish king Stanisław Leszczyński, father -in -law of the King of France Louis XV.
The treaty will replace the previous agreement between Poland and France, signed in 1991 and assessed as outdated – in later years Poland joined the European Union.
It was announced that the new treaty with France would be signed until the end of the Polish presidency in the EU (held by Warsaw in the first half of this year). Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently said that “there are many indications that it could be a breakthrough treaty when it comes to mutual security guarantees.” On April 23, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski expressed hope for signing the contract in the coming weeks.
French diplomacy presented the contract as a “Premium Treaty”. She emphasized that the new agreement would be the first such agreement that France would sign with a country that is not her neighbor.
President Macron also said in a Monday interview that on May 7 this year. Friedrich Merz will pay his first foreign visit to Paris after taking the office of the German Chancellor. Macron – referring to the relationship with Warsaw and Berlin – assessed that France “consolidates” international activities by implementing its strategy of strengthening Europe.
From Paris Anna Wróbel (PAP)
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