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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president seeks experts’ advice on contentious law targeting opposition

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lays a wreath of flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during his visit to Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish-Ukrainian friendship masks a bitter, bloody history

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

A woman measures a window before covering it with plastic sheets in a building damaged by a bombing the previous day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become bogged down. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russia bombarding cities.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) **FILE**

Live updates: France’s Macron speaks with Putin, Zelenskyy

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda, right, shakes hands with US Vice President Kamala Harris on the occasion of their meeting at Belwelder Palace, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

VP Harris says U.S. and Poland are unified, despite fighter jet spat

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Poland's President Andrzej Duda talks for the media during a news conference with North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski at the presidential office in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. Poland’s president on Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, says he has decided to veto a media bill that would have forced U.S. company Discovery to give up controlling share in TVN, a Polish TV network. He noted that the bill was unpopular with many Poles and would have dealt a blow to Poland's reputation as a place to do business. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski, File)

Polish president vetoes media bill that targeted Discovery, a U.S. company

By Vanessa Gera

In this Sunday, June 28, 2020 file photo, President Andrzej Duda addressees supporters after voting ended in the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland. A Polish writer is being threatened with up to three years of imprisonment for calling the nation's president a “moron” on social media. The writer, Jakub Zulczyk, had criticized the manner in which Polish President Andrzej Duda — a close ally of former President Donald Trump — had reacted to the electoral victory of President Joe Biden last year. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File) **FILE**

Polish writer facing prison for calling president ‘moron’

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech for the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. President Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. The trip will take him to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines for summits of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Poland dumps ‘rhetorical musing’ after 2020 elections, scraps plans to construct ‘Fort Trump’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Trump visited Warsaw, Poland, during his first year in office and spoke with Polish President Andrzej Duda about a U.S. military base in September 2018. (Associated Press)

‘Fort Trump’ in Poland replaced by Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman, wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, walks along Cinquantenaire park in an autumn day in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo stopped short Friday of imposing another full lockdown, as the country did in March, but introduced a series of new restrictive measures as the number of COVID-19 related hospital admissions and deaths continue to soar. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

The Latest: New outbreak delays easing of rules in Melbourne

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

File—File picture taken June 28, 2020 shows Poland's President Andrzej Duda casting his vote during presidential election in Krakow, Poland. Duda was tested positive on Corona. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzal, file)

Poland’s president has coronavirus, apologizes to contacts

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second right, and his wife Susan talk with US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher, left, as they arrive at the airport in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday Aug. 15, 2020. Pompeo is on a five day visit to central Europe. (Janek Skarzynski/Pool via AP)

Pompeo inks deal to support more US troops in Poland

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Protesters hold a sign saying &quot;People, not Ideology,&quot; at a protest of the homophobic rhetoric of Polish President Andrzej Duda in Bialystok, Poland, on June 20, 2020. Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are angry and afraid after Duda won re-election in a divisive campaign that cast their movement for equal rights as a dangerous “ideology” that threatens families in the deeply Roman Catholic country. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

Poland’s LGBT community feels fear and anger after election

By VANESSA GERA and DOROTHEE THIESING - Associated Press

Incumbent President Andrzej Duda flashes a victory sign in Pultusk, Poland, Sunday, July 12, 2020. An exit poll in Poland's presidential runoff election shows a tight race that is too close to call between the conservative incumbent, Andrzej Duda, and the liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president wins 2nd term after bitter campaign

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, July 7, 2020 photo Poland's incumbent president Andrzej Duda, who is seeking reelection in a tight presidential election runoff on Sunday, July 12, 2020 attends a rally in Lomza, Poland. Duda, who has backing from Poland's ruling right-wing party, is running against liberal Warsaw mayor, Rafal Trzaskowski. Opinion polls suggest the election may be decided by a small number of votes. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Exit poll: Duda leads Poland’s tight presidential runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

In this Thursday, July 9, 2020 photo election campaign posters of incumbent conservative president, Andrzej Duda, right, and his challenger, the liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, for a tight presidential election runoff on Sunday, July 12, 2020 are seen in Raciaz, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland faces momentous choice in tight presidential runoff

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

This combination of photos shows candidates in Poland's presidential election, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, right, and Poland's President Andrzej Duda. The two candidates are heading into a razor's-edge presidential runoff election Sunday, July 12, 2020, that is seen as an important test of populism in Europe after a campaign that exacerbated a conservative-liberal divide in the country. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A deeply divided Poland chooses a president in runoff vote

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

President Andrzej Duda leaves after speaking to supporters at the end of the voting in the presidential election day in Lowicz, Poland, Sunday, June 28, 2020. The election will test the popularity of incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who is seeking a second term, and of the conservative ruling party that backs him. Exit poll shows incumbent Andrzej Duda with most votes in Polish presidential vote, but short of first-round win.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Rivals in Poland election runoff get no help from also-rans

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

President Andrzej Duda flashes victory signs after voting ended in the presidential election in Lowicz, Poland, Sunday, June 28, 2020. The election will test the popularity of incumbent President Andrzej Duda, who is seeking a second term, and of the conservative ruling party that backs him. Exit poll shows incumbent Andrzej Duda with most votes in Polish presidential vote, but short of first-round win.(AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Polish president attacks LGBT rights as he heads to runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 file photo, Polish President Andrzej Duda waves to supporters as he campaigns for a second term in Serock, Poland.Polands current President Andrzej Duda is the frontrunner ahead of the election on Sunday, June 28, but polls show him unlikely to achieve the majority needed to win outright. That will require a runoff two weeks later in which he is expected to face off against Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a very close race. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)

Exit poll: Polish presidential vote headed for runoff

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

President Donald Trump meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Sunday election in Poland a test for president and populism

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press