Europe · Sunday, 1 November 2026
Poland's president holds his own crisis talks as constitutional court standoff deepens

President Karol Nawrocki convened PiS and allied party leaders at the presidential palace on Saturday, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party stayed away, after the Constitutional Tribunal's chief judge was suspended. Tusk accused his opponents of trying to "destroy democracy and rule of law," and the US ambassador warned against a confrontation that could "spiral into something far worse."