Presidential vote likely to determine Poland’s place on the EU stage

Close-run race between pro-EU and nationalist candidates pits liberal vision against a radical-right, EU-critical stance

Poland's presidential election runoff could have far-reaching implications for its place in Europe - either cementing the country's hard-won seat at the EU's top table, or heralding a return to altogether trickier times.

The mayor of Warsaw, Rafa Trzaskowski, faces off against the historian Karol Nawrocki on Sunday in a neck-and-neck race, pitting a liberal vision of Poland at the heart of European policymaking against a nationalist, radical-right, EU-critical stance.