The project could be approved by the end of the year, according to Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka
Poland could pay up to 17 billion zloty ($4.4 billion) for a permanent base on its territory, the presidential National Security Bureau (BBN) has said. The project, which is currently being discussed with Washington, involves a facility that could house 5,000 troops, the agency told the newspaper Rzeczpospolita this week.
Warsaw offered to host a permanent US base during President Donald Trump’s first term in 2018, proposing to name the facility ‘Fort Trump.’ Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski confirmed this week that a deal on the base was nearing completion.
Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, who traveled to the US this week for the talks on the base among other things, stated that the final decision rests with Trump and that she did not expect it to be made before the review of the posture of US forces, which is expected to be finalized in November or December. According to the BBN, the base could be completed in 2029 under “optimal conditions.”
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