Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (Civic Coalition, liberal) expressed his curiosity about how the right will rationalize the fact that the tariffs imposed by President Trump on the European Union are double those on Russia. In a message shared on X on April 3, he highlighted a growing reality that the Law and Justice Party (PiS) finds increasingly challenging to conceal: the national-conservative party’s longstanding admiration for the current American president is now at odds with Poland’s essential interests.
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During its tenure in power in Warsaw from 2015 to 2023, coinciding with Donald Trump’s first term as U.S. president from 2017 to 2021, President Duda’s PiS cultivated a notably close relationship with the American billionaire. In 2017, during a significant visit by Trump to Warsaw, the ultra-conservative party’s weekly publication, wSieci, featured a headline proclaiming an “Alliance in defense of civilization” between Poland and the United States. The cover art evoked another historic Polish-American partnership, that of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in their fight against communism.
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