Last week, the EC proposed to the European Council to open the EDP against Poland, Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Malta, and Slovakia.
If the Council approves the EC suggestions, it will adopt the EC recommendations for corrective action and policies for each member state.
On Friday, Tusk said that he had solid reasons to believe that the EC “will take very seriously [the fact] that we have to spend so much on defense.”
The EC declared earlier that defense expenditures would be taken into account when preparing the recovery plans.
The EDP procedure in the EU is triggered on the recommendation of the EC once an EU member state’s public debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 60% or its deficit is above 3% of GDP.
Poland has already been subject to the EU EDP procedure once in the past, in July 2004. The procedure was closed in July 2008.