Securitisation of State Security under the Second Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

<ns3:p> The process of constructing security in the conditions of contemporary international realities involves, among others, state entities, whose representatives (political elites) in their statements and documents have the opportunity to build the perception of threats and propose adequate forms of counteracting them. For the Member States of the European Union, one of the platforms for the realisation of this objective is the rotating presidency of the Council, held every six months. It is then that not only is a collective vision of security articulated, but also a space for the discursive articulation of a security threat picture specific to the state holding the presidency. The aim of this paper will be to deconstruct and reconstruct the discourse on European security in the statements of Polish politicians in the context of the second Polish Presidency of the Council. An answer to the question will be sought: was the Presidency an opportunity to Europeanise the discourse on European security in a <ns3:italic>bottom-up</ns3:italic> model <ns3:italic>and</ns3:italic> were Polish postulates for its strengthening or change included in the pan-European debate on security? The analysis will be based on the method of discourse analysis within the constructivist paradigm of securitisation and will concern the case of Poland in the period December 2023–June 2025. </ns3:p>