Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's address to the European Parliament on Wednesday garnered some warm applause for his stance on defence but criticism quickly emerged over his attack on the Green Deal and his migration track record.

President also plans to ask for "financial contribution" for maintenance of remaining troops, European diplomatic source said.

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his ally in neighbouring Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, have sought to weaponise migration by pushing thousands of migrants brought from elsewhere in the world over the EU’s borders in an effort to fuel support for anti-immigration far-right parties.

According to the MEP, “Donald Tusk, who is one of the key figures of the liberal, globalist, Soros-backed political clique currently in power, was parachuted by Brussels into Poland’s electoral campaign, one of the key battleground states in Central Europe.”

The bloc's defence push could potentially be used as leverage in a trade standoff with Trump, according to Stephane Sejourne, the EU's commissioner for industrial strategy, who noted Europe's economy needs to be in good health to allow for more security spending.

POLAND’S prime minister has said it’s his “dream” for a “Breturn” instead of Brexit as he discussed a defence treaty with Sir Keir Starmer. Ex-president of the

Europe should welcome rather than rebuff U.S. President Donald Trump's call for other NATO members to ramp up their military spending, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, stressing the importance of security to the continent.

It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break through the border to provoke and destabilize Poland and the rest of Europe.

MEPs from the left side of the European Parliament dislike the Polish prime minister’s attitude on migrations and the Green Deal, while Patriots and Conservatives say they don’t trust him. View on eur

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Poland after the two countries reached an agreement on a longstanding source of tensions between them: the exhumation of Polish victims of World War II-era massacres by Ukrainian nationalists.

BRUSSELS: The EU's top diplomat and Poland's prime minister said on Wednesday (Jan 22) that the bloc must heed US President Donald Trump's demand to spend much more on defence - faced with the