Tusk Says Poland’s Political Chaos Poses No Risk to EU Funds
- Premier promises to work with president to agree on reforms
- President Duda blocks government dismissal of top prosecutor
Dariusz Barski
Photographer: Markiian Lyseiko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing/Getty Images
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Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland’s access to some €60 billion ($65.7 billion) in European Union funding hasn’t been put at risk by a standoff with the nation’s head of state.
The premier spoke on Monday hours after meeting with President Andrzej Duda, who has threatened Tusk’s reform agenda after he won an election in October on a campaign to dismantle eight years of nationalist rule. Duda’s latest salvo was to block the dismissal of a top prosecutor, complicating the premier’s bid to overhaul the judiciary.