- We are also grateful that you have made the entire free world aware that without struggle, without readiness to confront evil, without strength and determination, this world will not survive. We are also grateful for the fact that something that has become a tedious certainty for the West – all these rights and freedoms, the constitution and democracy, prosperity and predictability, which we have stopped caring about, which we have begun to disdain, and even questioned in many situations – constitutes for you values for which you are ready to fight. For you know, and I know too, how nightmarish a reality devoid of principles, laws, and freedoms is - stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the Ewald Heinrich von Kleist Award ceremony at the Munich Security Conference.

- Your dreams were once our dreams. Poland is the best example that it was worth dreaming of a free world, that it was worth believing in it and fighting for it. As a Pole, I want to say this clearly and unequivocally today. It was worth fighting to become part of the free world. Yesterday it was about us, today it is about you - he continued.

- It is the Ukrainians who are showing that these values and institutions, scorned by some as outdated, are working, bringing goodness, security, and freedom. Here and there, I hear opinions that Europe is on the verge of collapse, that NATO is outdated, that the world order should cease to exist, and that the era of transactional politics and the concert of powers has now arrived. Nonsense. Those who believe that everything can be bought should also remember that, under this philosophy, everyone can be sold - he emphasized.