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Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition has won the European elections in Poland, according to the official figures published by the country's electoral commission on Monday morning. Tusk's party got 37.1% of the vote, translating to 21 members of the European Parliament. "We have waited exactly 10 years for the first place on the podium. I am so happy," a visibly moved Tusk said on Sunday evening after initial forecasts projected the result. The largest opposition party, the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), came second with 36.2% of the vote, meaning it will...
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk's liberal-conservative Civic Coalition is set to win the European elections in Poland by a wide margin, according to initial forecasts. Tusk's party is projected to get 38.2%, post-election polls conducted by the Ipsos opinion research institute indicated. The Civic Coalition is expected to be able to send 21 lawmakers to the European Parliament. "We have waited exactly 10 years for the first place on the podium. I am so happy," a visibly moved Tusk said on Sunday evening. The largest opposition party, the national conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), came secon...
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Polish President Andrzej Duda has come in for criticism from his fellow Poles for comparing the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash with the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash 14 years ago. Expressing his condolences to the Iranian people, Duda said in a post on the X messaging service that few nations had tragic pages like this in their history books. "But we Poles, who were affected by the crash of the Polish government aircraft at Smolensk in Russia in 2010 know the feeling of shock and the emptiness that remains in the hearts of the people ...
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Germany and Poland staged festivities in twin towns on their shared border to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski met in Frankfurt an der Oder and Słubice on Wednesday. The two visited Słubice's Collegium Polonicum academic institution on the Polish side, then joined a festival and crossed the Oder Bridge to Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany. Baerbock called May 1, 2004, an "incredible moment" for the continent. On that day, the former Eastern Bloc states of Estonia, Latvia...
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Poland is open to hosting nuclear weapons from NATO allies, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday. Duda made the comments in an interview published Monday in the Polish tabloid Fakt. "If there were a decision by our allies to deploy nuclear weapons within the nuclear sharing also on our territory in order to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we are ready," Duda said. However, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for further details from Duda. "This idea is absolutely massive, I would say, and very serious. I would need to know all the circumstances that have led the pres...
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