Poland spent 3.8 percent of its GDP on military expenditure in 2023, according to World Bank data. “Some expected a wave of support for the left or liberal side, especially among young people.

JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Poland has a new president - far-right historian and amateur boxer Karol Nawrocki. He won by around a single percentage point in an election where voter turnout was high.

It was a razor-thin win, 50.9 per cent of the vote to 49.1 per cent. But the conservative nationalist Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s presidential runoff election on Sunday is a huge blow ...

The message to capitals like Brussels, Berlin and Paris — which recently signed a defense treaty with Warsaw — should be to not rest on their political laurels as Poland likely takes a more ...

The strongest Right areas are in southeast Poland, along the Ukrainian border, which were in pre-1914 Austria, the only one of those multi-ethnic empires with a Catholic monarch.