Tusk pledges to save Poland from European Union ‘isolation’

The president of the European Council will now serve for another 30 months.

European Union diplomats said Poland would be unable to stop Tusk’s reappointment due to his wide respect in Europe.

Former Polish PM Donald Tusk has been re-appointed as the European Council President for the second 2.5 year term.

The consensus reached at Monday’s Versailles summit (6 March) on the need to construct a two-speed Europe risks reigniting tensions between the EU’s eastern and western member states.

Tossing diplomatic decorum aside, Poland’s government brought the equivalent of a political blood feud to Europe’s top table, much to the bewilderment and concern of Europe’s leaders.

But it’s reported that Hungary later made a sudden turnaround, backing off its support to Saryusz-Wolski.

In a largely symbolic gesture of protest after that meeting, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo announced that her country was refusing to officially endorse the final conclusions of the summit because of the spat over Tusk’s re-election.

According to Szydlo, Tusk abused his authority and interfered with Polish internal affairs, therefore showing lack of neutrality.

Minister Witold Waszczykowski said Thursday Poland’s diplomats will be telling their foreign partners that the summit “is in danger” if they insist on Tusk, Poland’s former prime minister and adversary of the current government.

Tusk’s reappointment, which follows the election in January of a conservative to head the European Parliament, means all three main political institutions are run by the centre-right. “He enjoys unanimous support from the entire party”.

European Union institutions were trying to offer photographers more time to take pictures of leaders as they get down to business in the summit room, the source said.

Kaczynski argued that such a person can not obtain Poland’s support.

“He’s decent, he’s effective, he’s a very good president”, Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands said on Thursday. He took office on December 1, 2014.

“We can not allow a unsafe precedent to be set whereby the democratically elected government of a member country is attacked politically by the president of the European Council”, she stated.

“We have and we agreed that it’s important that the EU’s defence policy should be complementary to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, to strengthen it”.