Foreign support of Ukraine since the invasion of this country by Russia, on February 24, 2022, Poland failed to take advantage of its presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) which ended on June 30 to bring kyiv de Brussels closer. In December 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk hoped to open at least one chapter of negotiations for the entry of Ukraine into the EU and affirmed: “If it only depended on Poland, the process would last one day. »» It was nothing. These stages, essential for membership, require unanimous decision of member states, but Hungary does not hide its opposition to the project. The prospect was even more complicated with the election in Poland of a very ambivalent president on the subject.
Victorious on 1is June with 50.89 % of the votes, the nationalist Karol Nawrocki, supported by the ultra -conservative right and justice (PIS) party, undertook during the campaign to oppose the membership of Ukraine to the EU. A week after the ballot, in his first interview with foreign media, in this case the newspaper Mandinerclose to Fidesz, the party of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, he said that “Poland and Hungary must defend their interests vis-à-vis Ukraine”. On June 30, he nuanced his remarks by considering that Ukraine had to meet European expectations and standards before claiming membership, which is the objective of membership negotiations, which generally take years.
You have 67.61% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
