Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland

Donald Tusk was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny.
During a government crisis in 1992, when the Minister of Internal Matters Antoni Macierewicz unveiled secret collaborators of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa, Tusk supported a vote of no-confidence against the Olszewski's government.
Exit polls weren't available, but opposition leader Donald Tusk had been expected to replace Jaroslaw Kaczynski as PM and lead a hostile parliament against President Lech Kaczynski.
The Cabinet of Donald Tusk was appointed on November 16, 2007, and passed the vote of confidence in Sejm on November 24, 2007.
Poland is backing its foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, to replace NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who steps down next year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
7pm: Tusk says Slovakia's eurozone accession should encou.
PARIS, Nov 14 (UPI) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that talks regarding a possible US.
WARSAW, Poland, Nov 11 (UPI) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said so far, no suitable sites for planned nuclear plants have been found.
17 (UPI) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says his country should be prepared to introduce the euro as the country's currency in 2011.
WARSAW -(Dow Jones)- Polands government remains firmly committed to adopting the euro by Jan 1, 2012, but is ready to reconsider this target if conditions prove unfavorable, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.
Unveiling the governments new energy strategy, Tusk said up to two nuclear power stations will be built over the next 11 years, with eight.
WARSAW, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Polands top utility Polska Grupa Energetyczna will oversee the construction of up to two nuclear plants as part of a wider push for energy diversification, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
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Donald Tusk said his Cabinet decided Tuesday to step up construction of its first-ever nuclear power plants, and that he expects them.
PRIME minister Donald Tusk has said he sees no reason to hold a referendum on the country's adoption of the euro.
Donald Tusk was one of the active participants of its creation.
Same year, 1980, on the tide of the massive workers' strikes in the country, Donald Tusk took an active part in establishment of the Independent Movement of the Polish Students (Niezalezne Zrzeszenie Studentow Polskich - NZSP.
The same year, 1980, Tusk joined this movement.
It came over that Donald Tusk is the author of books about the history of the Polish cities, Byl sobie Gdansk, Gdansk 1945, and Dawny Sopot, which gained a great popularity (Wielka popularnosc) among the readers.
When, on September 14, Cimoszewicz announced his going out of the elections race, Tusk took a considerable part of his electorate.
It should be mentioned that Donald Tusk is a defender of the Polish minority in Belarus.
Politics Tusk was one of several vice-speakers of the Sejm (2001-2005), the lower house of the Polish parliament.
Tusk has been a member of the Sejm since 2004.
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unveiled secret collaborators of communist Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa, Tusk supported a vote of no-confidence against the Olszewski's government.
Tusk was officially designated as Prime Minister on November 9 and took office on November 16.
Donald Tusk, leader of the victorious liberal Civic Platform party, is enjoying sweet political revenge against the conservative Kaczynski twins who defeated him in Polish elections in 2005.
Mr Tusk is a champion of the free market - he ran a small industrial painting business in his youth, at a time when the communist authorities discouraged independent business activity.
Mr Tusk was also active in the Solidarity movement that challenged and eventually defeated the communist regime in the 1980s.
Mr Tusk married his wife Malgorzata while studying history at the University of Gdansk.
of a political party which was founded only four years ago.
Parliament and with the Council of Europe.
But the Kremlin is well aware that Tusk is not a friend of Moscow.
Tusk is not about to announce a major shift in Poland's foreign policy.
Mr Tusk is unlikely to be as stupid as you suggest.
Tusk is unlikely to be stupid enough to break with this tradition, no matter how much he might want to; he also wants to win the next election.
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In a lengthy interview, Tusk says his government's ambition is great: to complete the transformation to a free-market system begun almost two decades ago.
Tusk is pure striker," says Bielecki, now CEO of Bank Pekao, one of Poland's biggest financial institutions.
To that end, Tusk says he wants to shrink government, curb central authority, "radically" deregulate, and cut taxes.
20 die in Poland jet crashPosted on 01-24-2008A Polish military plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in flames in northwestern Poland, killing all aboard including an air force general, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday.
Donald Tusk, leader of Poland's election-winning liberal party, took the reins of power Friday as he was sworn in as prime minister by bitter rival President Lech Kaczynski.
In a speech Friday, Tusk said he was counting on Kaczynski, with three years left as president, to cooperate.
Tusk said that, by the end of next year, Poland would withdraw its 900 troops from Iraq, where it leads an international contingent of about 2,000 soldiers from 10 nations in the south-central part of the country.
Tusk said he planned to keep Poland's 1,200-member force in Afghanistan next year.
Donald Tusk is the Fidel Castro of Polish politics," said Zbigniew Girzynski, a lawmaker with Law and Justice.
Since elected Tusk has seen his popularity with the Polish people rise to fifty eight percent.
Tusk has also been forced to form a coalition because Civic Platform missed its goal of obtaining a parliamentary majority, winning 209 of the total 460 seats.
Tusk has pledged to end the regular tussles with the rest of the European Union, and with neighbouring Germany in particular, which marked Law and Justice's rule.
Images Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk leads his delegation with Chinese.
Source: Reuters Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk leads his delegation with Chinese.
From my government's point of view, in times of energy instability, like the Russian-Ukraine crisis, our priority will be our citizens' energy security, Tusk said on Tuesday.
Tusk said Poland had fared well since the Kremlin cut off gas shipments to Ukraine last week, but said the future might be less rosy.
Tusk has been working to sway Poland's euro-sceptic Law and Justice party, whose support is needed to change the constitution.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Saturday that the establishment of the US missile shield in his country was solely of concern to Poland and the United States.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, would have no influence on the project, Tusk said in Warsaw, according to Polish news agency PAP.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government would approve a strategy for entry into the eurozone after meeting with an opposition party leader on Monday.
Tusk said the government had prepared a plan to enter the eurozone that would be accepted on Tuesday and later be presented to President Lech Kaczynski.
Tusk met with Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and said there was a clear difference of opinion on when to switch currencies, with Kaczynski advocating an unspecified later date.
Osnabrueck, Germany - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called on Germany to rethink the Baltic Sea pipeline project with Russia in light of the ongoing crisis over Russia's military presence in Georgia, German media reported Saturday.
Referring to a plan by a Russian-German consortium to build a 1,200-kilometre pipeline to supply the Europe Union (EU) with natural gas from Russia energy giant Gazprom, Tusk said Europe should not increase its dependence on Russia with this project.
London, June 14 : Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has caused an uproar by publicly admitting that he felt like killing Howard Webb after the English referee awarded the injury-time penalty that led to Austria’s last-gasp equalizer at Euro 2008.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said even with a no vote on the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union would look for ways to bring the treaty into effect.
Warsaw  - Brushing aside US criticism, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that Washington must provide financial aid for the Polish armed forces if it wants to deploy a missile shield on Polish territory.
Prime Minster Donald Tusk said the planned construction of an LNG terminal in Swinoujscie for supplies from Qatar and Kuwait would.
Earlier Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with his Lithuanian counterpart, Andrius Kubilius, about an energy bridge that would link Lithuania with Poland.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described Polish -Lithuanian relations as special within the European Union.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that nine locations are being considered for the plants locations.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with his Lithuanian counterpart on Wednesday for talks on energy cooperation amid a gas dispute that.
On Tuesday, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland's top utility will oversee construction of up to two nuclear plants as part of.
Unveiling the government's new energy strategy, Tusk said up to two nuclear power.
Tusk was deputy speaker of the Polish parliament from 2001 to 2005.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with his Lithuanian counterpart on Wednesday for talks on energy cooperation amid a gas dispute that saw Russia cut off gas through Ukraine.
Donald Tusk said his Cabinet decided Tuesday to step up.
Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he aims to give priority to projects such as nuclear power stations and gas contracts in the wake of Moscow's recent cut-off of gas shipments.