On Thursday 6 February, Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski, expressed his support for the idea of setting up a “rearmament bank ” whose shareholders would be European Union Member States, on a voluntary basis, as well as third countries with views similar to those of the EU, such as “Norway, the United Kingdom and Japan”.
In the mind of Mr Sikorski, who was speaking in Brussels to a group of journalists including Agence Europe, this financial institution...