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    Donald Tusk is a Polish politician who has served as President of the European Council since 2014. Previously, he was Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014, during which time he was the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of Communism in Poland. He co-founded the Civic Platform party and held various political offices in Poland since the early 1990s. In 2014, he resigned as Polish Prime Minister to take the role of President of the European Council, where he has focused on issues facing the European Union.

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    Donald Franciszek Tusk ([dnalt franttik tusk] ( listen); born 22 April 1957) is

    a Polish politician and historian. He has been President of the European Council since 1 December
    2014. Previously he was Prime Minister of Poland (20072014) and a co-founder and chairman of
    the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) party.[1]
    Tusk has been involved in Polish politics since the early 1990s, having founded several political
    parties and held elected office almost continuously since 1991. He was elected Prime Minister in
    2007 and with his Civic Union party's victory in the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he became
    the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of Communism in Poland.[2]
    In 2014, he became President of the European Council, and was re-elected to this position in 2017.
    He resigned as Polish Prime Minister to take the role, having been the longest-serving Prime
    Minister of the Third Polish Republic.

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    1Early life and education

    2Early political career

    3Prime Minister (20072014)

    o 3.1Domestic policy

    o 3.2European policy

    o 3.3Foreign policy

    o 3.4Constitutional reform

    o 3.5Honours and awards

    4President of the European Council

    5Personal life

    6See also

    7References

    8External links

    Early life and education


    Tusk was born in Gdask in northern Poland.[3] His father, also named Donald Tusk (19301972),
    was a carpenter, and his mother, Ewa (ne Dawidowska) Tusk (19342009), [4][5] was a nurse.[3]His
    grandfather Jzef Tusk (19071987) was a railway official who was imprisoned at the Neuengamme
    concentration camp; later, as a former citizen of the Free City of Danzig, he was apparently
    conscripted by German authorities into the Wehrmacht.[6]
    Tusk got his Scottish first name because his paternal grandmother Juliana travelled abroad in her
    youth and became enamoured of a lord called Donald. She gave this name to her son, who passed
    it on to her grandson.[7]
    Tusk credits his interest in politics to watching a clash between workers on strike and riot police
    when he was a teenager.[3] He enrolled at the University of Gdask to study history, and graduated in
    1980.[8] While studying, he was active in the Students' Solidarity Committee, a group that opposed
    Poland's communist rule at the time.[8]

    Early political career

    Donald Tusk's speech at the second edition of the Annual NBP Conference on The Future of the European
    Economy

    Tusk was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-
    Demokratyczny KLD), which in the 1991 elections won 37 seats in the lower house of parliament.
    [8]
    The KLD later merged with the Democratic Union (UD) to become the Freedom Union (UW).
    [8]
    Tusk became deputy chairman of the new party, and was elected to the Senate in the next election
    in 1997.[8] In 2001, he co-founded the Civic Platform, and became deputy speaker in parliament after
    the party won seats in the year's election.[3] in 2005, Tusk was defeated in the presidential election
    by Lech Kaczynski, and the Civic Platform lost Parliament to the Law and Justice party.[3]

    Prime Minister (20072014)

    Donald Tusk (right) being appointed as Prime Minister by the President Lech Kaczyski on 9 November 2007

    Tusk and his Civic Platform party emerged victorious in the 2007 parliamentary election, defeating
    incumbent Prime Minister Jarosaw Kaczyski's Law and Justice party with about 44% of the vote to
    Law and Justice's 30%.[9] Tusk and his assembled cabinet were sworn in on 16 November, as he
    became the fourteenth prime minister of the Third Republic. [10]
    In the 2011 parliamentary election, Civic Platform retained their Parliamentary majority, giving Tusk a
    second term as Prime Minister and making him Poland's first PM to win reelection since the fall of
    communism.[11] In September 2014, Tusk resigned his position as Prime Minister in order to take the
    position of President of the European Council.[12]

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