Yesterday, Tusk said that the real fight in Poland is to stop the right from taking the country out of the European Union. Tusk is the pro-EU Polish Prime Minister. Jaroslaw Kaczynski leads PiS, the main conservative opposition party, while President Noruki also hails from right-wing Poland. Tusk says Kaczynski and his allies hide a deeper anti-EU agenda behind calls for "reform" in Brussels, and he compared their language to the rhetoric leading up to Brexit. He even warned that the 2027 parliamentary elections in Poland could become the first step towards a future referendum on EU membership. So today, Poland's constitutional crisis exploded. Police were deployed around the Constitutional Court, its leadership was suspended, protesters clashed with officers, and Noruki turned his plane around mid-flight and rushed back to Warsaw. The Tuskes camp says the government is restoring the rule of law after years of PiS influence over the judiciary. PiS and its allies say the government is trying to take over the court. So the wider struggle is now clear: Poland is fighting over who controls its institutions, while the two sides are also fighting over how closely the country should remain tied to Brussels. Yesterday it was on Folksite. Today it is about the police around the Constitutional Court. Mario Nofal.

Yesterday, Tusk said that the real fight in Poland is to stop the right from taking the country out of the European Union. Tusk is the pro-EU Polish Prime Minister. Jaroslaw Kaczynski leads PiS, the main conservative opposition party, while President Noruki also hails from right-wing Poland. Tusk says Kaczynski and his allies hide a deeper anti-EU agenda behind calls for "reform" in Brussels, and he compared their language to the rhetoric leading up to Brexit. He even warned that the 2027 parliamentary elections in Poland could become the first step towards a future referendum on EU membership. So today, Poland's constitutional crisis exploded. Police were deployed around the Constitutional Court, its leadership was suspended, protesters clashed with officers, and Noruki turned his plane around mid-flight and rushed back to Warsaw. The Tuskes camp says the government is restoring the rule of law after years of PiS influence over the judiciary. PiS and its allies say the government is trying to take over the court. So the wider struggle is now clear: Poland is fighting over who controls its institutions, while the two sides are also fighting over how closely the country should remain tied to Brussels. Yesterday it was on Folksite. Today it is about the police around the Constitutional Court. Mario Nofal.