{"id":10039,"date":"2017-03-09T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/poland-fails-to-stop-donald-tusk-eu-re-election\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:42:43","slug":"poland-fails-to-stop-donald-tusk-eu-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/poland-fails-to-stop-donald-tusk-eu-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland fails to stop Donald Tusk EU re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Tusk before EU summit 9 March\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16F21\/production\/_95058939_038382390-1.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  EPA<figcaption>Image caption                                      Mr Tusk was accused of meddling in Polish politics                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">EU leaders have re-elected Donald Tusk as president of the European Council despite a bid to oust him by his home country, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the leaders voted 27 to one to give him another two-and-a-half-year term.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish government insisted Mr Tusk, a former PM from a rival party, had violated his mandate by interfering in domestic politics.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Tusk is expected to play a major role in the UK&#039;s Brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>After his re-election he tweeted: &quot;Grateful for trust &amp; positive assessment by #EUCO [European Council]. I will do my best to make the EU better.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo had strongly opposed Mr Tusk&#039;s candidacy and proposed another candidate, a little-known Polish MEP called Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.<\/p>\n<p>She said after the vote that Mr Tusk&#039;s reappointment signalled that EU leaders would have little say in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-39222442 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright EPAImage caption Mr Tusk was accused of meddling in Polish politics EU leaders have re-elected Donald Tusk as president of the European Council despite a bid to oust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}