Romania and Poland agreed to boost their security cooperation, said Romanian president Klaus Iohannis after talks in Bucharest on Tuesday with visiting Polish president Andrzej Duda. We urgently need consistent and balanced consolidation of the eastern flank and enhanced forward presence, he added. The two states want a clear reaffirmation of NATO’s main role, namely collective defence. President Iohannis also announced he decided, together with president Duda, that Bucharest would host a B9 summit to prepare the NATO summit to be hosted by Madrid in June. The Polish president said a new NATO concept is needed, given Russia’s aggression against a sovereign state and the security crisis it generated across Europe. The two leaders reiterated their firm support for the EU accession of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia. They also discussed the profound humanitarian crisis triggered by the Russian invasion.
