Until the international community understands this simple truth, Israel and its allies will continue to dress instruments of domination as relief. And we will continue to witness tragic scenes like the one in Rafah yesterday, for years to come.
“Rafał Trzaskowski would be a pro-European politician,” said Bartosz Rydlinski, political scientist from Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. “Brussels, Paris and Berlin would be the first capitals he would visit. He would try to maintain close relations with the US, but focus on strengthening the European component, both in the European Union and in NATO.”US endorsement for Nawrocki
Nawrocki’s weekend “March for Poland” through central Warsaw gathered close to 50,000 supporters, and emphasised his nationalist conservative, pro-Catholic and free-market views. He argues that Poland should be prioritising its relationship with the US over the EU.But his real triumph came this week when he received an official endorsement from Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump’s secretary of homeland security.Nawrocki laid out his plan for Poland’s future on Tuesday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event hosted by the American Conservative Union (US) for US conservative activists and officials. The event is usually held in the US, but took place in Hungary in 2022. This year, it was held in the Polish town of Jasionka, southeastern Poland, close to the air and shipment hub which supplies weapons and aid to Ukraine.
“For us, for Poles, relations with the United States are based on a deep foundation of values. These values are freedom, democracy, and sovereignty,” he told the audience, which included US Secretary of Homeland Security Noem, Vice President JD Vance, the billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk and Steve Bannon, the former White House political strategist in 2017 during Trump’s first term as president.“My opponent, Rafał Trzaskowski, is playing dishonestly,” said Nawrocki, who claims Trzaskowski would follow EU orders blindly, including on relaxing immigration rules. “Not only does he lie during public debates and get caught in these lies, but he also doesn’t want to say what his real idea for Poland after June 1st, 2025, is. And this idea is obvious. Speed up the migration pact, speed up the climate pact and pursue a policy that is important for Brussels, not for our security.”
The event was a much-needed boost for Nawrocki after a long week of bad news.
First, on May 22, Slawomir Mentzen, the far-right head of free-market party Konfederacja, who came third in the first round of the presidential election, claimed on his YouTube channel interview with Nawrocki that the PiS candidate had taken part in a fight between football hooligans in 2014 – something Nawrocki has never denied.An endowment refers to funds or assets donated to a university to keep it financially sustained in the future.
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