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Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends the first session of the lower house, or Sejm, of the newly-elected parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Monday Nov. , 13, 2023 after an election last month heralded a change of course for the Central European nation at a time of war across the border in Ukraine. Also Monday, Duda is to attend the first session of the Senate and entrust outgoing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki with the mission of forming a new government, a task generally expected to fail because after the election Morawiecki's party lacks parliament majority . (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s president is to swear in a government expected to last no longer than 14 days

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

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

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 Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Poland's prime minister said on late Wednesday his country is no longer sending arms to Ukraine, a comment that appeared aimed at pressuring Kyiv but put Poland's status as a major source of military equipment in doubt as a trade dispute between the neighboring states escalates. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Poland is done sending arms to Ukraine, Polish leader says as trade dispute escalates

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

In this grab taken from video released by Belarus' Defense Ministry on Thursday, July 20, 2023, Belarusian soldiers of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) and mercenary fighters from Wagner private military company attend the weeklong maneuvers conducted at a firing range near the border city of Brest, Belarus. The Polish prime minister says that more than 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland. (Belarus' Defense Ministry via AP, File)

Wagner mercenaries in Belarus move closer to the Polish border, Poland’s prime minister says

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Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki leaves after an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, on March 24, 2023. Morawiecki flew Tuesday, April 11, to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool, File)

Polish PM Morawiecki heads to U.S. to further strengthen defense ties

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Poland's Piotr Zielinski, left, and France's Adrien Rabiot, right, fight for the ball during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between France and Poland, at the Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Poland leader backs down from World Cup players’ bonus

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Poland's Foreign Minister Zbiegniew Rau participate in a media conference in Rzeszow, Poland, Saturday, March 5, 2022. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken visits Poland as Russia’s war in Ukraine intensifies

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Poland's conservative ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, back left, stand together during a meeting of conservative populist party leaders in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 4, 2021. The leaders of right-wing populist parties gathered Saturday in Warsaw to discuss how they can work together to bring change to the European Union, which they accuse of acting like a super-state that is eroding the traditions and powers of the EU's 27 member nations. (AP Photo)

Polish prime minister defends meeting of European populists

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Polish right-wing government wins left’s support on EU funds

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Poland, Hungary PMs meet over EU budget veto strategy

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

People hold a protest rally in front of Poland's Education Ministry in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, against the appointment of a new education minister Przemyslaw Czarnek. Czarnek has said that LGBT people "are not equal to normal people." LGBT rights are the focus of a growing culture clash in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Under fire over LGBT rights, Polish leader blames activist

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Poland's Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz in Lazienki Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday Aug. 15, 2020. Pompeo is on a five day visit to central Europe. (Janek Skarzynski/Pool via AP)

Poland’s government names new foreign, health ministers

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Members of Poland's women's rights organizations, with obituaries of women who fell victim to violence, protest against plans by the right-wing government to withdraw from Europe's Istanbul Convention on prevention of violence against women and children, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s top court to probe Europe’s domestic violence pact

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki lay grave lights with candles at the Auschwitz monument during their visit at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. Merkel attends an event in occasion of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Auschwitz Foundation. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland wants to buy site of WWII Nazi death camp in Austria

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Poland’s PM now faces task of forming new government

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Makeup of new Polish government signals continuity

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In this Aug. 15, 2019 photo, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is speaking during national observances of the Armed Forces Day in Katowice, Poland. On Tuesday Morawiecki demanded explanations from the justice minister after allegations surfaced the minister's deputy encouraged an online hate campaign against judges critical of the government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland plans no budget deficit for first time in 30 years

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FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2011 file photo, in a sign of mourning, participants place pebbles on a monument to honour the hundreds of Jews murdered by their Polish neighbours during state and religious ceremony marking 70 years since the World War II massacre in Jedwabne, Poland. The Polish government says it is considering carrying out exhumations at a World War II-era site where Jews were burned alive in a barn by their Polish neighbors, something which would violate Jewish religious law. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Poland considers exhumations at pogrom site and Jews object

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press