Over the years, relations between Poland and Airbus have reflected Warsaw's geopolitical choices. They vary according to its involvement on the European scene and Moscow's ambitions for its former Soviet sphere of influence. They also must consider the transatlantic link that Poland would have liked to be immutable at a time when Washington is increasingly looking to other Asian horizons.

For Donald Tusk, there is more reason than ever to bring his country closer to Airbus, which already employs 800 people at four sites in Poland. Three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and with Donald Trump in the White House threatening to withdraw US support for the security of the Old Continent, according to our information, the Polish Prime Minister would like to see his country take a stake in the European group alongside the three founders, France (10.83%), Germany (10.82%) and Spain (4.1%).

In office for just over a year, this committed pro-European, who followed nationalist Mateusz Morawiecki, is at work on the project with, among others, his Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.

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