FILE PHOTO: Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski (on right) looks on during a Reuters interview at the 2025 annual IMF and World Bank spring meetings in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Cedeno/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Poland is likely to ask the European Commission next week for an exemption from European Union borrowing limits to keep up large defence spending in coming years without breaking EU rules, but is worried that others won't do so, Polish Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said on Thursday.
Apart from Poland, only Portugal has signalled it would ask for the same exemption, a measure the European Commission had hoped would be widely taken up by the 27 EU countries and help boost EU defence investment by 650 billion euros over the next four years to deter a potential Russian invasion.
