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Patrick Wintour in Karpacz

Poland’s ruling party counts on anti-EU stance to boost election chances

Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, attends the 31st Economic Forum in Karpacz, south-western Poland.
Kaczyński said Poland had joined the EU out of necessity. Photograph: Tomasz Wiktor/EPA

Leaders of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party appear intent on stoking an anti-EU and anti-German climate as it faces a battle in next year’s parliamentary elections.

Speaking at an economic forum in Karpacz this week, Jarosław Kaczyński, the chair of Law and Justice (PiS) and the country’s de facto leader, went further than before in denouncing the EU as a culturally alien project led by a neo-imperialist Germany. He said it was “the sacred duty” of Polish politicians to oppose it.

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