“But as long as I am prime minister, Poland will not be a vassal in this relationship,” Tusk added. “Allied relations cannot consist of someone constantly saying ‘yes’ to everything.”While its central European neighbours are warmer or cooler towards the Trump administration, Poland is a country divided. “It is clear what the aggressive, imperial Russia’s attitude toward Poland is,” he said in a television interview. Pressed, he declined to say whether he favoured Poland joining a common European initiative or buying its own system – from the US or elsewhere. Poland’s struggle to be a co-operative Trump ally is clear, too, from an ongoing controversy over Poland’s parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Czarzasty.

Source: The Irish Times February 16, 2026 21:02 UTC