Eurocrats Watch Poland With Bated Breath

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : These moves are about putting Polish and European officials on notice that the United States will not tolerate anti-democratic liberal overreach in a country as strategically important as Poland.
58% : Barring a shock result, the candidates emerging to the second round will be Warsaw's Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who is aligned with the liberal, EU-backed government of Tusk; and Karol Nawrocki, a prominent historian aligned with the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, which led conservative governments from 2015 to 2023.
54% : " Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee followed up the visit with a letter to Michael McGrath, EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, and Rule of Law, in which they requested "a briefing about how the actions of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government might infringe upon Americans' right to free speech online and what the EU is doing to respond to the Tusk government's anti-democratic actions.
53% : "You will win," President Trump reportedly told Nawrocki during their DC meeting.
43% : He posed for photos with President Trump and met with several key administration officials.
33% : This is the "Smiling Poland" promoted by the EU bureaucracy, regional talking heads like Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder, and the partially departed Biden foreign-policy apparatus.

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