Böll·Europe Podcast - 2025 presidential election in Poland 🇵🇱

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After a busy 2024 “super election year”, we keep looking at elections taking place in 2025. Joan Lanfranco, Head of Communications and Outreach at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's EU office in Brussels unpacks election results with the insights of colleagues and partners around the world. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? And what’s at stake for the EU and the global order?

In this Böll·Europe Podcast episode we focus on the run-off of the presidential election in Poland 🇵🇱, which took place on Sunday 1 June 2025. Our guest is Maciej Makulski, Head of Europe and International Politics at the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's Warsaw office.

Karol Nawrocki of the Law and Justice party (PiS) narrowly won Poland’s presidential run-off—dealing a serious blow to Donald Tusk’s pro-European coalition government. What does this mean for Polish politics, the EU, and the balance of power in Warsaw?

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Host: Joan Lanfranco

Edition and visuals: Laura Moreno

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