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Polish FM: Nawrocki’s Election Won’t Shift Pro-Ukraine, Pro-EU Policy
Poland would maintain its support for Ukraine and its growing role in the European Union despite the election of nationalist Karol Nawrocki to the country’s largely ceremonial presidency, stated Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski on June 9.
“He [Karol Nawrocki] clearly agrees with the national consensus that Russia has to be deterred,” Sikorski said, according to POLITICO. He also emphasized that most defense contracts currently being financed were signed under the previous administration, and he expects the new president to uphold Poland’s pro-defense consensus.
Sikorski suggested that installing Nawrocki as a president might even help bridge relations with both US President Donald Trump and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
“They claim to have better relations with the White House… now, we can play on two pianos at the same time.”
Sikorski added that if Nawrocki "can persuade Viktor Orbán that Ukraine should be supported, that vetoes [on Kyiv's accession to the EU] should be lifted, that Ukraine should be integrated into the West, we would be very pleased and we would support the president-elect in this issue."
Earlier, NATO fighters based in Poland intercepted a surge of Russian reconnaissance flights out of Kaliningrad, testing Warsaw’s air defences and underscoring Poland’s strategic role on NATO’s eastern flank.
