WARSAW: Weakened on the international arena since its nationalist government came to power in 2015, Poland's image has been transformed over the past year by its leading role in the coalition supporting Ukraine. When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, neighbouring Poland opened its border t
On Monday, as she passed through Warsaw before boarding a train to Kyiv, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told reporters that,"faced with the conflict in Ukraine, Poland represents a moral and material frontier for the West".
"This is a country that we as Europeans should thank for its extraordinary work to support Ukraine," she said. The words are music to the ears of the Polish government of the Law and Justice party, which has been heavily criticised at home and abroad for its stand-off with Brussels over judicial reforms.Last week, the European Commission launched legal action after Poland's constitutional court appeared to challenge the primacy of EU law.
Belka said that in order to maintain its current enhanced role on the world stage, Poland needed"an improvement in relations with Europe". With parliamentary elections looming later this year, the international context means that Poland's domestic political scene has been less fractious recently."For the moment, it is acting as a unifying element for all political forces in Poland," former foreign minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld told TOK FM.Source: AFP/ec
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