What will Poland’s new government mean for the EU economy?

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As President Andrzej Duda opens consultations with party leaders to form a new government, here's how the opposition's majority in the Polish parliament will affect the EU's sixth-largest economy - as well as the bloc itself.

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00:45 - In on international scene,

00:47 Tusk will attempt to improve Poland's relations

00:51 with our key partners,

00:53 not just Germany, the European Union,

00:56 but also with Ukrainians

00:59 who with whom the current government

01:02 fell out quite shortly before the election.

01:06 So this will be the big change.

01:09 But fixing the relations with the EU in particular

01:14 will require domestic changes,

01:16 namely restoring the independence of judiciary,

01:21 restoring the rule of law,

01:23 which is a condition for the EU

01:25 to release the funding for Poland.

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01:42 - There is a number of reasons

01:55 why Law and Justice Party is not as popular

01:59 as it was four years ago.

02:02 First of all, we have a very different economic situation.

02:06 There is a cost of living crisis

02:08 and many voters attributed this situation

02:13 to law and justice prolific spending,

02:16 which fueled inflation.

02:18 So this is one of the concerns

02:20 which often comes out in opinion research.

02:25 But at least equally important

02:27 is what's been happening to Polish democracy,

02:31 to rule of law, to women's rights,

02:34 to our external relations.

02:37 I think you can say that people have been fed up

02:41 with the policy of making enemies all around Poland

02:45 and also of the corruption and arrogance of this government.

02:51 So largely this was a protest vote

02:56 against this type of conduct of power.

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03:09 Well, first of all, these changes,

03:25 there will be a lot of challenges for the new government

03:28 because of very likely opposition from President Duda

03:33 who can veto the government legislations.

03:38 And the new government, the new coalition

03:42 will not have enough votes to override presidential veto.

03:47 So it will be a very prolonged and difficult process

03:51 of, as the opposition calls it, a cleanup of the country

03:56 after the eight years of democratic backsliding.

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