Poland refused to sign the Declaration of the EU summit due to Tusk
 he Council failed to adopt a Declaration on the results of the last Brussels summit. Such documents are accepted by the EU leaders unanimously Warsaw, however, were “against”. Thus the Polish government protesting against the re-election of Donald Tusk to the presidency of the Council of EuropeThe Prime Minister of Poland Beata Szydlo has refused to sign the final Declaration of the EU summit because of the choice of Donald Tusk to head the European Council against the will of the Republic, writes Reuters. Szydlo expressed regret at the fact that her colleagues in the “Visegrad group” (political Union of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, founded in the early 90-ies – ed.) still voted for Tusk. The Chairman of the Council of Europe, re-elected on this post for another 2.5 years, called Warsaw not to burn bridges in relations with the EU, reports Reuters. Tusk also said he will try to keep the Polish government from political isolation in Brussels. In the final Declaration of the EU summit contained the next instruction of Brussels on the economic, immigration and foreign policy Association. The document was signed by 27 other representatives of the EU, which, in turn, said that the refusal of Poland did not affect the result. Earlier, on March 9, Szydlo published an open letter urging European leaders not to re-elect Donald Tusk, the former Prime Minister of Poland, for the next term in the Council of Europe. For the presidency of the EU Warsaw has its own candidate — the former Vice-President of the European Parliament Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. Szydlo has accused Tusk that he for the past two years involved in politics of Poland. |
