Morning opening: Embattled Tusk seeks contemporary get started
Jakub Krupa
Polish high minister Donald Tusk will face a vote of self assurance in parliament this afternoon as he seeks to bop again from his birthday party’s presidential election defeat two weeks in the past.

Warsaw centrist mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, Tusk’s deputy within the Civic Platform birthday party, hastily misplaced the presidency to right-wing populist Karol Nawrocki, sponsored through the opposition Law and Justice birthday party, sparking questions over the federal government’s long run.
Unusually, the vote used to be known as through Tusk himself in a bid to shore up his fragile coalition, reveal a transparent political mandate to manipulate, and reset the narrative forward of the 2027 parliamentary election.
But the construct as much as as of late’s vote published sour private and ideological divisions and disagreements inside the coalition, as main politicians publicly blamed each and every different for the federal government’s shortcomings and deficient supply on their flagship guarantees.
The executive, which got here to energy in overdue 2023, promised to opposite the erosion of democratic assessments and balances that had marked the eight-year rule of the Law and Justice birthday party (PiS).
But it confronted a politically opposed presidency within the conservative incumbent, Andrzej Duda, who yielded the blocking off energy of veto. With Nawrocki elected for a five-year time period, the federal government has to discover ways to are living with a troublesome president or face a whole paralysis.
On paper, the governing coalition has a transparent majority within the Sejm, with 242 MPs within the 460-seat chamber.
But some executive lawmakers indicated they weren’t proud of the high minister, and wish to see radical adjustments within the best workforce and its priorities. Others have been reportedly approached through PiS leaders on the lookout for another, right-wing majority within the parliament.
What might be able to pass incorrect.
Tusk is scheduled to kick the talk off in a while, with the primary vote anticipated round 2pm Warsaw time (1pm BST).
I will be able to carry you all of the key updates right here.
It’s Wednesday, 11 June 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa right here, and that is Europe Live.
Good morning.
Key occasions
Tusk begins through announcing he needs to “get straight to the point” as “this is not a day for long, flowery speeches”.
He says that the results of the presidential election makes it transparent that the federal government will face “greater challenges than we expected”.
“This is not an earthquake, but let’s call things for what they are: we are facing two and a half years of very hard … work in [political] conditions that are not going to improve,” he admits.
But he insists the coalition nonetheless “has the mandate to govern” it gained in 2023, reaffirmed through over 10m votes for the federal government’s candidate on the presidential election two weeks in the past.
He recognizes “impatience, sometimes disappointment or anger” amongst electorate, and says the federal government must take accountability for the defeat and “not … offer excuses”, however display a plan for the street forward.
Tusk mischievously notes the absence of PiS MPs, joking his executive obviously has a transparent majority in the home as of late.
Tusk is beginning his speech now.
Curiously, maximum MPs from the primary opposition birthday party, Law and Justice, don’t seem to be within the chamber.
Morning opening: Embattled Tusk seeks contemporary get started

Jakub Krupa
Polish high minister Donald Tusk will face a vote of self assurance in parliament this afternoon as he seeks to bop again from his birthday party’s presidential election defeat two weeks in the past.
Warsaw centrist mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, Tusk’s deputy within the Civic Platform birthday party, hastily misplaced the presidency to right-wing populist Karol Nawrocki, sponsored through the opposition Law and Justice birthday party, sparking questions over the federal government’s long run.
Unusually, the vote used to be known as through Tusk himself in a bid to shore up his fragile coalition, reveal a transparent political mandate to manipulate, and reset the narrative forward of the 2027 parliamentary election.
But the construct as much as as of late’s vote published sour private and ideological divisions and disagreements inside the coalition, as main politicians publicly blamed each and every different for the federal government’s shortcomings and deficient supply on their flagship guarantees.
The executive, which got here to energy in overdue 2023, promised to opposite the erosion of democratic assessments and balances that had marked the eight-year rule of the Law and Justice birthday party (PiS).
But it confronted a politically opposed presidency within the conservative incumbent, Andrzej Duda, who yielded the blocking off energy of veto. With Nawrocki elected for a five-year time period, the federal government has to discover ways to are living with a troublesome president or face a whole paralysis.
On paper, the governing coalition has a transparent majority within the Sejm, with 242 MPs within the 460-seat chamber.
But some executive lawmakers indicated they weren’t proud of the high minister, and wish to see radical adjustments within the best workforce and its priorities. Others have been reportedly approached through PiS leaders on the lookout for another, right-wing majority within the parliament.
What might be able to pass incorrect.
Tusk is scheduled to kick the talk off in a while, with the primary vote anticipated round 2pm Warsaw time (1pm BST).
I will be able to carry you all of the key updates right here.
It’s Wednesday, 11 June 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa right here, and that is Europe Live.
Good morning.