‘We will fix everything together’, Tusk vows, after Polish parliament votes in favour of making him new prime minister – as it happened
Vote ends eight years of rule by nationalist PiS as Tusk vows to mend ties with EU. This live blog is closed
In a policy speech ahead of a confidence vote he is set to lose, the outgoing Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said his government had shown it could set new trends in European politics and underscored his opposition to empowering the EU.
Europe of homelands, not a Europe without homelands. We do not agree to any further deprivation of competences from states. If the union is to survive, it must abandon attempts to greedily seize new competences.
We proved that the liberal economic model was not only unfair, but above all ineffective and irrational. We have introduced a completely new model, a new - one might say - socio-economic system. We took first steps towards a solidarity state.
We have shown that we are not doomed to constant imitation, but that we can be the source of new trends in European politics.
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