Premier Tusk and his citizens’ platform, on the other hand, stand for the liberal camp. Already personally. Tusk’s most important man has been Radosław Sikorski, since the cabinet environment in July Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in Warsaw. Sikorski studied Oxford at the British Elite University and lived in the United States for a long time. He is married to the American Russia expert Anne Applebaum. Both publish regularly in the “New York Times”. This is rather suspicious for Trump. Both stand for him for the liberal eastern coast elite in the United States. Incidentally, the PIS pendant in Poland sees it similarly.
Poland expert Andrzej Kaluza therefore evaluates the lack of Poland at the Ukraine summit in the White House as a setback for the Polish president and his efforts to play a greater role in foreign policy. “Nawrocki and the PIS overestimated their importance. For Nawrocki it was a difficult defeat.”
The dispute over the primacy in foreign policy has been smoldering for a long time. In Tusk’s first term as a prime minister, he with the national conservative President Lech Kaczyński struggled who represents the country in Brussels at EU peaks. Poland Constitutional Court had actually decided the dispute in 2009 in favor of the head of government. Now the old debate flares up again.
It also rumbles in Polish-American relationships. At least since Donald Trump’s second term. The president sees the greatest foreign policy challenges for the United States in China and Russia’s head of state Vladimir Putin more of a man with whom a deal can be closed. Both dangerous for Poland.
The country sees a guarantee of its independence in the euro-Atlantic partnership and the greatest danger in Putin’s Russia. This is also why you feel connected to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This is also why in Warsaw the NATO accession of the Baltic Sea, Finland and Sweden is welcomed. This is also why Ukraine’s war supports the Russian invaders. Socially: According to Germany with 1.2 million refugees, Poland with 995,000 people is the largest refuge for war refugees from Ukraine. “The willingness of help for the war refugees was overwhelming. Here civil society has done a lot more than the state,” said Kaluza.
