{"id":416819,"date":"2025-09-11T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416819\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:47:12","slug":"france-to-send-warplanes-to-protect-polish-airspace-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/416819\/","title":{"rendered":"France to send warplanes to protect Polish airspace \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No French assets initially played a role, but Macron told Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that Paris would assist in protecting the country&#8217;s airspace in the future. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The security of the European continent is our top priority. We will not yield to Russia\u2019s growing intimidation,&#8221; the French leader said, adding that he is in touch with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n<p>Besides France, other NATO countries are also expected to strengthen air defenses on the alliance&#8217;s eastern flank. U.K. Defense Secretary John Healy announced Wednesday he was looking at options for London to do more, while Germany&#8217;s defense ministry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/ausland\/europa\/luftraum-lettland-polen-100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Thursday it had reinforced its air defense presence in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s drone incursion <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/204571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighted<\/a> flaws in the readiness of Western arsenals to defeat low-cost, mass-produced threats.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Lunday contributed reporting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No French assets initially played a role, but Macron told Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk that Paris would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2594,18992,473,5898,2595,34,2000,299,36,1824,2199,43,770,332,811,3053,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-airspace","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-tusk","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-macron","20":"tag-poland","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-the-netherlands","24":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115187866314732403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}