The new president of Poland puts billions of European Union and commercial goals at risk

Officials said that the Poland on the right has swept the aspirations of the European Union Trade Union and was suspicious of billions of euros in the money allocated to the Warsau, the officials said, while they strengthened the increasing European trend in Central Europe.

the Right national victory Carole Noruki In the presidential elections of Poland, Brussels, who feared it will make the pro -European government in the country under Prime Minister Donald Tusk, unify the reforms required to reach European Union funds and to create Warsaw to help prevent a prominent trade deal with South American countries.

Noruki, a former soccer rioter without political experience, carried out a campaign under the slogan “Poland First”, and criticized the policies of the European Union on climate change, Ukraine and social issues.

“Let’s help others, but let’s take care of our citizens first,” said Noruki, who was supported by US President Donald Trump.

Ursolia Reszova, a Central and Eastern European analyst at the Eurasia Group, said that the reform agenda in Tusc will now … Noruki will prevent him from implementing the judiciary reform in line with the demands of the European Union.

“Noroki will join other sovereignty leaders led by Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban to resist Brussels.”

Electing Tusk as Prime Minister in October 2023 Brussels was seen as a welcome return to a supportive government of the European Union in Poland, the sixth largest economy in the bloc and the most important members of the eastern wing, after eight years of European rule.

Brussels said that the previous government led by the right -wing and justice law (PIS), which nominated Noruki, the rule of endangered law and the independence of the country in the country, which led to the freezing of billions in the funds of the European Union.

After a commitment from the Tusk government to implement reforms that would enhance the independence of the judiciary, in 2024, the European Commission opened 137 billion euros of the European Union’s funds allocated to it. Poland.

Brussels has so far spent more than 20 billion euros of Poland’s share of 60 billion euros from the post -Willie Fund in the European Union, as well as approximately 7 billion euros from 76.5 billion euros in the usual European Union funds, regarding the reducing changes that are less than the rule.

However, these changes were not signed in the law, due to the veto of outgoing president Andre Doda – a matter of his successor to continue.

Senior European Union officials told FT that Noruki pledged to stop those reforms that were transferred to the law again, questioning Warsaw’s continuous commitment to strengthening the rule of law, which supports the flow of funds in the European Union. Noruki assumes his position in August.

“Everything has been built on the idea that Poland will completely fix when the president agrees with Tusk, and if things will not go sideways,” said Jacob Garczioski, a research coordinator in democracy, who is built in Berlin.

While the Poland President has a limited executive authority, the office can prevent the legislation approved by Parliament and the nomination of major state officials such as the Central Bank President. TUSK will need a majority of three fifths to overcome the veto in Nawrocki-a level that cannot be reached without the sounds of PIS.

Daniel Fronund, the green member of the European Parliament, said the committee did not freeze the money to Poland “prematurely.”

“The issuance of the funds was subject to a plan instead of waiting for the reforms valid,” Frend told FT.

He urged the committee to take action if the reforms are not approved. “The first step is to pressure the Polish government to implement the necessary measures,” he said. “The moment the president takes a real action and does not sign them, the second step is to freeze the money.”

A spokesman for the committee told FT: “We cannot predict the future decisions of the Polish -elected President,” the committee spokesman told FT.

“We are confident that the reforms that started by the Polish government will continue and continue,” the spokesman said, adding that Brussels “will” search for good cooperation “with the elected president.

In addition to the ability of the veto, his election will weaken the Tusk power and expects him to force him to avoid policies that are likely to be popular, such as support Tracosur Trade deal. Polish farmers fear that the imports of foods are cheaper than South America will harm the competition and decrease safety standards in the European Union. The Polish farmers Party in the Tusk Alliance.

With France also against ratification of the largest trade deal in the European Union, Ireland, Austria and the skeptical Netherlands, it can help Poland create a prohibited minority.

Noruki will join Urban and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico as major votes to combat the European Union in the region. His victory also comes before the parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic in October, where the populist Andrig Babi leads to opinion polls, raising fears of an increasing feeling of combating protocols between voters in the east of the bloc.

The officials said that although Noruki’s campaign also criticized the financial and military support of the European Union of Ukraine, they did not expect the speech to lead to tangible changes in the strong Poland position of Kevie, given a large -scale condemnation of the Russian war in the country.

Officials and analysts said other local issues related to the European Union’s policies will suffer.

“This will be possible to implement any of the central projects of the TUSK government.” “This will now make it difficult for the TUSK government to rebuild the rule of law in this important European Union state.”

But through European Union European parties, others celebrated. Matteo Salvini, the extremist right -wing deputy prime minister in Italy, praised the “great news from Poland”.

“Noruki was rewarded through the free and democratic vote for Polish citizens with all the due respect for Bureaucrats in Brussels and all the media that it described as extremist days,” Salvini wrote on Monday.

Additional reports by Amy Kazmen in Rome and Andy Haddah in Brussels