Polish FM urges US to invite Poland to G20 in 2026
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that as Poland has joined the club of trillion-dollar economies, he has prompted the United States, as the presidency of the G20 in 2026, to invite Poland to the group.
He made the statement during a press briefing after meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Miami on Tuesday.
Sikorski said that Poland had the right to be invited to G20 not only as one of the 20 largest economies in the world, but also as a country that presents a political and intellectual argument, a country that has successfully transformed from a planned economy to a free economy.
Earlier that day, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Poland had just joined the twenty largest economies in the world, "the very exclusive club" of countries whose GDP exceeds one trillion dollars.
"It has finally become an absolutely historic fact," he said.
Tusk cited data published on Monday by Poland's statistical office, which showed that the country's GDP increased by 3.4 percent in the second quarter of this year.
"It is one of the highest in Europe and compared to the largest economies, not just European ones, Poland is, I would say, unrivalled in terms of the growth rate of 3.4 percent," he said.
Tusk also said that Poland ranked first in terms of growth in real disposable income per capita between the end of the third quarter of 2023 and the end of the first quarter of 2025, citing data from a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Poland's result was significantly higher than the average for the G7 countries and other European economies.
"This absolutely record-breaking growth, we are outperforming everyone else," he said.
"We're overtaking such wealthy nations as the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, the United States, Australia, and Canada," Tusk added.(PAP)mmr/mf
