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#eu-politics

Having already visited preferred partners such as US President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, Poland's new president, Karol Nawrocki, will on Monday evening travel to Germany, a country that Polish right-wing conservatives deeply mistrust. While there, he will meet both German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday. From Berlin, he will travel on to Paris.

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The blow to Europe's international credibility is incalculable in a world that expects the EU to stand up for reciprocity and rules-based trade, to resist Washington's coercion.