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People take part in Independence Day march organized by far-right groups in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president urges sustained U.S. commitment to Europe’s security

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

People lay a wreath at the monument to the 1939 heroic defense of the Westerplatte peninsula outpost during solemn observances of the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, at Westerplatte, on the Baltic Sea, Poland, on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Attacked by a German Nazi warship in the small hours on Sept. 1, 1939, the Westerplatte military outpost was supposed to hold out for 24 hours, but its soldiers put up resistance to the Germans for seven days. (AP Photo/Wojciech Strozyk)

Poland holds a state burial for more than 700 victims of Nazi Germany’s World War II massacres

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrzej Duda gives a statement to the media in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 10, 2024, after the arrest of two politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge for hours in the presidential palace. The office of Poland's president says Abdrzej Duda has spoken on the phone with Congolese president in an effort to obtain the release of a Polish traveller sentenced there for life in prison on charges of sabotage. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Polish leader seeks quick entry for Ukraine, repudiates call to cede territory for peace with Russia

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right and Poland's President Andrzej Duda attend the welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, June 24, 2024. (Pedro Pardo/Pool Photo via AP)

NATO member Poland’s president visits China, expecting to talk to Xi about Ukraine

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In this image released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 19, 2024, Russian soldiers participate in a military exercise somewhere in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Polish president: Russia will likely attack other countries if it wins in Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump walks with Poland's President Andrzej Duda at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan in New York on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Poland’s president becomes the latest leader to visit Trump as allies eye a possible return

By Jill Colvin and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Welcomed at White House, Polish leaders push a spending boost for NATO

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Polish President Andrzej Duda, from left, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., right, meet at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top Polish leaders to visit White House, hoping to spur U.S. to help Ukraine more

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Poland's President Andrzej Duda, center, poses with new adviser Stanislaw Zaryn, far left, former deputy interior minister Maciej Wasik, and to his right former interior minister Mariusz Kaminski, and new adviser Blazej Pobozy in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, January, 9, 2004. Duda on Tuesday welcomed Kaminski and Wasik, who have been convicted and sentenced for abuse of power, and gave them refuge in his palace as police were preparing to arrest them. The legal drama surrounding the two is building into a legal standoff between the new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Law and Justice, the national conservative party that governed Poland for eight years until last month following its loss of a general election in October. (AP Photo/President Palace/Jakub Szymczuk)

Poland’s new government is in a standoff with the former ruling party over 2 convicted politicians

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Szymon Holownia, left, head of the Poland 2050 party, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, head of the Polish People's Party, Donald Tusk, center, head of the Civic Coalition, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, a co-chairman of the New Left party, and Robert Biedron, the other co-chairman of the New Left, sign a coalition agreement, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday Nov. 10, 2023. The leaders of Polish opposition parties have signed a coalition agreement that lays out a roadmap for governing the nation over the next four years. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s newly elected Parliament meets for the first time

By Monika Scislowska and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, speaks during an event at the SDG Summit at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **

Polish president to appoint new prime minister after opposition coalition’s election win

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Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, holds a postelection meeting with Donald Tusk, right, the opposition candidate to be the next prime minister, and other members of a Tusk-led electoral alliance at the presidential palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s president calls for new Parliament to hold first session Nov. 13

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Opposition party leaders, from left, Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, Szymon Holownia, Donald Tusk and Władyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, announce to reporters that Tusk is their candidate for prime minister and that they are ready to govern together, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday Oct. 24, 2023. The parties together won a majority of seats in parliament in an election on Oct. 15. The current conservative nationalist ruling party, Law and Justice, won more votes than any other party but has no coalition partner and no apparent path to keeping power. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opposition groups say Donald Tusk is their candidate for prime minister

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister addresses supporters at his party headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. Poland's election result is on a knife edge as an exit poll says that the governing Law and Justice party won the most votes. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Polish election winner Donald Tusk appeals to president to move quickly to form a new government

By Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, greets Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during a state visit at the Belvedere Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. At a joint news conference de Sousa vowed continuing support for Ukraine's struggle against Russia's invasion, while Duda said Poland is watching Russia's transfer of some nuclear weapons into neighbouring Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s leader says Russia’s moving tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, shifting regional security

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Poland's lawmakers vote in parliament, in Warsaw, Poland, on May 26, 2023. Poland's lawmakers have voted to approve an amended but divisive law on Russian influences believed to be targeting the opposition and criticized by the U.S. and the European Union. The lower house voted Friday, July 28, 2023, to reject the Senate's veto to the draft law, meaning it only now requires to be signed by President Andrzej Duda to take effect. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s lawmakers approve a divisive law on Russian influence

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From second left, Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa, Poland's President Andrej Duda, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Moldova's President Maia Sandu pose during a group photo at the Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Leaders from across the continent are laser-focused on holding Russia to account for its invasion of Ukraine and were poised to approve a system during their Council of Europe summit that would precisely establish the damages Moscow would have to pay to rebuild the nation. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Poland’s president proposes urgent amendments to law on Russian influences

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, talks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, May 26, 2023. Poland's lawmakers have approved a contentious law targeting the opposition. Critics say the law approved Friday violates a number of provisions in the Polish Constitution and is a clear example of how the right-wing ruling party is using the law to its own ends. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

U.S., EU criticize Polish plans for law that could keep opposition from holding office

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

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)

Poland’s president approves law on Russia’s influence that could target opposition

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