January 14, 2025 08:00 GMT
POLAND: Tusk Participates In Helsinki Summit, Zelensky To Visit Warsaw Wednesday
POLAND
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk is in Helsinki for talks on regional security, which comes after a series of incidents surrounding the activity of a "shadow fleet" operating on the Baltic Sea. Tusk said that the ships transport Russian oil to bypass sanctions, while some of them were involved in acts of sabotage. Participating countries will discuss strengthening NATO policing on the Baltic Sea and North Sea.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Poland on Wednesday to announce progress in addressing contentious historical issues, according to a DGP report. Starting in April, a group of Polish experts accompanied by Ukrainian archaeologists will start conducting exhumations of the victims of the so-called Volhynia massacre, an act of ethnic cleansing carried out by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II. Disputes on how to interpret and commemorate these events has weighed on Polish-Ukrainian relations over the past years.
- Another opinion poll indicated an ongoing erosion of support for Civic Coalition's Rafal Trzaskowski, still the frontrunner to win the upcoming presidential election. A new United Surveys/WP.pl survey put Trzaskowski in the pole position with 34.2%, with his main rival Law and Justice's Karol Nawrocki narrowing the gap to 5.2pp. If these two candidates would advance to the run-off, 50.3% of voters would choose Trzaskowski, a decline by almost 10pp from the previous poll conducted in December.
- The Finance Ministry sold PLN4.88bn worth of 45-week T-bills at its first post-pandemic auction of shorter-term notes yesterday, missing the target of PLN6bn. The auction attracted demand to the tune of PLN7.13bn.
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