New pro-EU Polish PM Donald Tusk fleshes out programme
New pro-EU Polish PM Donald Tusk fleshes out programme
Donald Tusk promises a radical change in direction after eight years of nationalist rule.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The plans include improving relations with the European Union and pledging to restore the rule of law, the focus of a long-running row with Brussels.
In a speech to parliament ahead of a vote of confidence in his proposed government, Mr Tusk said an isolated Poland was the greatest danger to the country's security.
The European Commission has taken legal action against Poland's previous right-wing Law and Justice (PiS)-led government for introducing reforms that undermined judicial independence.
Mr Tusk said uncontrolled migration was a challenge, adding it was possible to construct a policy that would both secure Poland's borders and treat migrants humanely.
If Mr Tusk wins the vote of confidence, which should be a formality given the coalition's comfortable majority, the government will be sworn in by President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday.
But the day was marred by an incident in which far-right MP Grzegorz Braun put out candles recently lit on a menorah in the parliament for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah using a fire extinguisher.
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Disclaimer, some of the things he's promising (access to abortion, civil unions for same sex couples) are not supported by considerable part of his coalition. Want to be proven wrong but PiS got elected on delivering impossible, Tusk is known for the exact opposite.
Want to be proven wrong but PiS got elected on delivering impossible, Tusk is known for the exact opposite.
Not delivering the possible, as it were ? I'm genuinely asking ...
Wasn't my intention and I've never looked at it this way but yeah, Tusk can stumble on most basic things if the change causes even minor inconvenience to vocal part of his coalitions. His previous government was described as government of "warm water in the sink" because it was baseline of what could be expected to be delivered.