Poland’s incoming president, Karol Nawrocki, has firmly aligned with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in opposing Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, signaling a deepening rift within the bloc over the future of its eastern expansion. In his first international interview since his election, Nawrocki made clear that Ukraine’s entry into the EU would harm Polish national interests.
Conservative Karol Nawrocki, a member of the right-wing populist Law and Justice Party (PiS), has been elected Polish president with 50.89% of the vote.
In a decisive move reflecting escalating security concerns, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have announced plans to withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, production, and stockpiling of anti-personnel landmines.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has called on the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in Poland to bolster deterrence against potential Russian aggression.
