Donald Tusk could become the first European Council president to be re-elected to the prestigious post against the will of his own country's government.
Tusk is a prime contender for the race, which will be decided at a meeting of EU heads of state on Thursday and Friday this week.
But Poland's ruling social-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, late on Saturday (4 March), barred Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo from backing Tusk's candidacy.
Instead, the ministry o...
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