Traveling to Poland on February 4, E. Macron seems ready to start a diplomatic and political rapprochement with Poland, even though Paris and Warsaw have been somewhat cold for a few years. If military subjects are at the heart of recent quarrels between France and Poland, this time they could allow their reconciliation. The President of the Republic has indeed raised the possibility of integrating Poland into the future battle tank program, the MGCS (Main Ground Combat System), possibly within the framework of permanent structured cooperation (CSP or PESCO in English). ) of the European Union. An interesting idea which nevertheless raises many questions.
The idea of Polish participation in the MGCS, which aims to replace the French Leclerc tanks and Leopard 2 Germans over the next decade, is not recent. It was in fact mentioned in 2016 by the former Polish Minister of Defense Antoni Macierwicz, and has since never been abandoned by Warsaw. The expansion of the MGCS program within the framework of a PESCO/CSP project has also been pushed by Poland since last year, as Nathan Gain reports on Forces Operations Blog in August 2019.
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