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Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa being greeted in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Monday Dec. 11, 2023. Though he was hospitalized last week for COVID-19, Walesa nevertheless traveled early from his home in Gdansk to attend the parliamentary session. The national conservatives who have ruled Poland for eight years are expected to finally relinquish power this week to a centrist bloc led by political veteran Donald Tusk. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A day of two prime ministers in Poland begins the delayed transition to centrist, pro-EU government

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Leader of the Polish Civic Coalition Donald Tusk addresses a media conference prior to a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Poland’s Tusk visits Brussels, seeking initiative in repairing ties with EU and unlocking funds

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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

FILE - Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, addresses an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Leading Polish candidates are gearing up for a debate Monday evening where they hope to sway undecided voters six days before a national election that many Poles believe is the most important once since communism was toppled. The debate gives Tusk get a rare chance to address undecided voters and Law and Justice supporters on state media airwaves. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Leading Polish candidates meet for debate on state TV six days before a national election

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, addressing an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at mobilizing supporters in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk says change ‘is inevitable’ as election supporters rally

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, left, and his Civic Platform member, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, right, flash victory signs during an election campaign rally in Otwock, Poland, on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at mobilizing supporters in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the Oct. 15 parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk seeks to boost his election chances with a rally in Warsaw

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party, speaks to a party convention in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, May 14, 2023. Poland conservative ruling party has used Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the German Embassy in negative light in its campaign ahead of crucial parliamentary elections in which it wants to hold on to power. In a campaign spot released Monday, Poland's key politician, ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski pretends to reject a call from Scholz, in a sham gesture of political independence from European Union's leading country. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

A new campaign ad from Poland’s ruling party features Germany’s chancellor in an unfavorable light

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump give a joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. As Trump becomes the first former president to face federal charges that could put him in jail, many Europeans are watching the case closely. But hardly a single world leader has said a word recently about the man leading the race for the Republican party nomination. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Everyone’s got something to say about Trump — except world leaders who might have to deal with him

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, Poland, on April 19, 2023. Poland's largest opposition party is leading a march Sunday, June 4, 2023, which is meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government which it accuses of eroding Poland's democracy and following Hungary and Turkey down an autocratic path. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, file)

Warsaw City Hall: Half a million people turn out to protest Poland’s right-wing government

By Vanessa Gera - 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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FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in her ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, on April 11, 2023. Poland's ruling party is pushing for the creation of a commission which it says would investigate Russian influence. Morawiecki said that the commission was needed to verify the past and also remove any remaining Russian influence for the future. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Polish ruling party wants commission to investigate Russian influence; critics fear witch hunt

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

President of the European Council Donald Tusk, left, is welcomed by Croatia's prime minister Andrej Plenkovic in Zagreb, Croatia, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. Donald Tusk attends the European Peoples Party (EPP) congress in Zagreb. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

EU’s Tusk: Croatia’s EU presidency comes at a critical time

By IVANA BZGANOVIC - Associated Press

The Union Jack is seen Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Britain faces another week of political gridlock after British lawmakers on Monday denied Prime Minister Boris Johnson a chance to hold a vote on the Brexit divorce bill agreed in Brussels last Thursday. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

The Latest: EU Council president will recommend Brexit delay

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FILE - In this Thursday, April 11, 2019 file photo, Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster, center, speaks to journalists after her meeting with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier at EU headquarters in Brussels. The Democratic Unionist Party is a small Northern Irish political grouping with an outsized Brexit role. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson most likely needs the 10 votes the party has in Parliament if he is going to have any chance in getting any Brexit deal he negotiates with the European Union over the line. Little wonder then, that the party is being courted intensely by Johnson. As things stand, it’s not clear whether the party will support any deal that emerges.(AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

The Latest: EU lawmakers might not OK Brexit deal by Oct. 31

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UK Brexit secretary Stephen Barclay, left, shakes hands with European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier before their meeting at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

The Latest: EU, Britain to intensify talks on a Brexit deal

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File - In this Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, and President of the European Council Donald Tusk chat before a meeting on the side of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France. With negotiations on the UK's departure terms from the EU hanging precariously in the balance at a time when silence seemed golden, both sides broke the spell Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019 when Tusk directly addressed Johnson on Twitter and gave him his fill about the fast crumbling Brexit negotiations. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

EU, UK bring out the vitriol as Brexit deadline draws near

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

EU’s Tusk: North Macedonia is ready for EU membership talks

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European Council President Donald Tusk walks by the EU flag prior to a meeting with Lithuania's Gitanas Nauseda at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The British parliament moved to take a no-deal Brexit off the table, raising questions about whether the deadline for Britain to leave should be pushed back beyond October 31. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Group of Polish lawmakers wants Donald Tusk in court

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European Council President Donald Tusk arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. European Union leaders continued a third day of talks to seek a breakthrough in a diplomatic fight over who should be picked for a half dozen of jobs at top EU institutions. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt, Pool Photo via AP)

EU leaders break deadlock, nominate candidates for top posts

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press