Telegraph: Poland and US agree deal for missile defence shield - by Harry de Quetteville
Poland and US agree deal for missile defense shield - by Harry de Quetteville
The agreement highlights how Russia's invasion of Georgia has prompted a swift reappraisal of the region's security and alliances. The US and Poland have been talking about the missile shield for a year but rushed to cement their alliance in the wake of this week's conflict. Donald Tusk, the prime minister, said that talks had been completed on a preliminary agreement and "technical questions remained". Washington plans to site a silo of 10 interceptor missiles at the Brdy army base in northern Poland to accompany a radar installation in the Czech Republic. The radar station, probably to be sited at Gorsko, has already been agreed by Prague and is awaiting parliamentary ratification.
Note EU-Digest: This should be a wake up call for the "old" EU member states that bringing in some of the former Soviet block countries into the EU at the insistence of US was not one of the more clever decisions they made and certainly did not enhance the political stability of the EU.
Labels: EU, Missile Crises, Poland, US
