“Work on the new National Security Strategy has been completed,” said acting head of the National Security Bureau (BBN), General Andrzej Kowalski. He added that “the current version, which has been agreed between the two parties – the presidential side and the government side – has been submitted to the government, and it should now forward the document, signed by the Prime Minister, to President Karol Nawrocki for approval.”
The document in question had previously been submitted to President Andrzej Duda. He refused to sign it, a position that is also upheld by President Karol Nawrocki.
Gen. Kowalski: The New NSS Awaits Signatures
The acting head of the BBN stated that “the National Security Strategy is a very important document, and fortunately the teams working on it have completed their work.”
“One can say that we finally have a document that has been agreed upon between the presidential and government sides. This is a very important moment,” he added.
Gen. Kowalski noted that “at this point, from a legal perspective, we have in a sense returned to a situation that should have occurred in June 2025. At that time, the NSS draft, which functioned as an agreed document between the government and presidential sides, was not fully so. Not all of President Andrzej Duda’s recommendations were included, or they were included only superficially, i.e., ‘since President Duda added a sentence about, for example, energy policy, let’s also write something about energy, and then we will say that we have taken his recommendations into account’ – but this was definitely not in the spirit of those recommendations.”
He assured that “everything that was not completed at that time has now – in April of this year – been finalized.”
“At present, the version agreed between the two parties – the presidential and the government – has been submitted to the government, and it should now forward the document, signed by the Prime Minister, to President Karol Nawrocki for approval,” he emphasized.
Dworczyk: We Are on the Final Stretch
The information provided by Gen. Andrzej Kowalski was commented on via platform X by Michał Dworczyk, an MEP from Law and Justice (PiS).
“Brigadier General Andrzej Kowalski, head of the National Security Bureau, has announced that the agreed text of the ‘National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland’ has been submitted to the Council of Ministers. This means that we are finally on the final stretch toward approving the most important strategic document outlining the directions of the state’s security development. It is worth recalling that the current document from 2020 is still in force, and unfortunately in many aspects it has not been implemented,” he wrote.
As he noted, “along the way, the largest war in Europe since 1945 broke out right beyond our eastern borders, Russia is openly challenging the European security architecture, we are the target of regular hostile actions from Moscow, the shape of NATO in our region is changing, and the pace of development of emerging technologies requires profound changes in the organizational culture of the Polish Armed Forces and the entire national security apparatus.”
“I am pleased that the new Strategy has finally ceased to be a hostage of political disputes and that the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces, President Karol Nawrocki, has gained the opportunity to influence Poland’s defense in this difficult time. It is worth emphasizing that he has the strongest political mandate to do so, confirmed by the 2025 election result,” the post reads.
The Law and Justice (PiS) politician expressed hope that “the agreed document will translate into practical changes in planning the development of the armed forces and the entire security system. From recent years, we should also draw a practical conclusion: the National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland should be regularly updated by new executive authorities, and the system of strategic, programmatic, and planning documents must be radically simplified.”
