Polish president’s meeting with Trump prompts fresh tensions with Tusk

Published on September 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Polish president’s meeting with Trump prompts fresh tensions with Tusk

Nationalist Karol Nawrocki’s visit to White House exposes divisions with Poland’s government and foreign policy

Poland’s conservative nationalist president is due to meet Donald Trump at the White House in a visit that has prompted fresh tensions with the nation’s pro-European government led by Donald Tusk.

Backed by the populist rightwing opposition Law and Justice party, which ruled Poland between 2015 and 2023, Karol Nawrocki unexpectedly won Poland’s presidential election after running a campaign under a Trumpesque slogan of “Poland first, Poles first”.

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