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EU official Tusk worried Poland moving toward leaving bloc

EU official Tusk worried Poland moving toward leaving bloc | iNFOnews.ca
President of the European Council Donald Tusk speaks to the media outside the prosecutor's office in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk as a witness Thursday in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski — a case widely seen as a politically-driven attempt to discredit the EU leader. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) A

WARSAW, Poland – Donald Tusk, one of the European Union’s top officials, says that he’s worried his native Poland could be moving toward leaving the European Union.

Tusk’s remark Thursday comes as the Euroskeptic ruling Law and Justice party is in open conflict with the EU over an attempted overhaul of the justice system the EU sees as undemocratic and extensive logging in Europe’s last primeval forest. The government has been defiant on both matters, even refusing to adhere to a European Court of Justice ruling to stop the logging.

Tusk told reporters: “It seems to me like a prelude to an announcement that Poland does not need the European Union. I am afraid we are closer than further to that moment.”

Tusk spoke on Thursday after being questioned by prosecutors in Warsaw.

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