There’s a pattern around Europe: As politicians become more critical of the European Union, they simultaneously become friendlier toward Russia. That happened with Marine Le Pen in France, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and Viktor Orban in Hungary, all of whom had harsher words for the EU than for Kremlin. Given that Poland, under the leadership of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, has also become more nationalist and Euroskeptical, it is worth wondering whether it could be the next domino to fall to the east.
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Demonstrators with EU flag attend the "Freedom March" in the Polish capital Warsaw on May 6, 2017 organised by Poland's main liberal Civic Platform (PO) opposition party to protest against the rightwing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) government over alleged rule of law violations.
