Poland will increase its defense budget to over 4% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 to strengthen its defense capabilities, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Sunday.
“The Polish army is expanding its defensive capabilities. We are buying weapons.
In 2023, more than 4% of GDP will be allocated for defense,” Duda told French newspaper Le Figaro, adding that this figure was twice as much the NATO standard.
In 2022, the defense budget of Poland was 2.4% of GDP. Warsaw planned to increase it to 3%, or about $28 billion, in 2023.
