French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Gdansk on Monday for a one-day visit to Poland but will only meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, snubbing President Karol Nawrocki and exposing the increasingly bitter rivalry between Poland\u2019s two centers of power, according to Polsat News. The presidential palace said Nawrocki\u2019s aides had sought a meeting with Macron, but Tusk\u2019s office pushed for the visit to take place in Gdansk rather than Warsaw, effectively making a meeting impossible.<\/p>\n
Tensions over foreign representation<\/p>\n
Presidential spokesman Grzegorz Urbanek stated: \u201cPrime Minister Tusk was very keen on preventing a meeting between the two presidents. That is why he insisted the visit take place in Gdansk, not Warsaw.\u201d The decision is politically sensitive because the Polish president traditionally represents the country alongside the government in foreign affairs, particularly on defense issues. Urbanek added: \u201cThe issues are serious. There is the nuclear question. An official visit by the French president without meeting our president raises doubts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nuclear talks and Budapest visit<\/p>\n
The Gdansk summit marks the first Polish-French intergovernmental meeting, focused on French proposals for a European nuclear deterrent, military cooperation, and possible French involvement in Poland\u2019s second nuclear power plant. The snub comes days after Nawrocki visited Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest \u2014 a trip sharply criticized by Tusk\u2019s government due to Orban\u2019s close ties to Moscow. Commentators suggest the Budapest visit may have cooled French enthusiasm for meeting Nawrocki, deepening what Polish media call a \u201cwar for the seat\u201d at international meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Gdansk on Monday for a one-day visit to Poland but will only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,709,1200,2248,1344,9,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-2781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-donald-tusk","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-gdansk","11":"tag-macron","12":"tag-nawrocki","13":"tag-poland","14":"tag-tusk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}