Tusk's Europe

04 September 2014

Paweł Świeboda comments: Tusk's ascent is a huge victory for Poland and Central Europe. European Voice offers background.

But what about Tusk's own vision of Europe? For someone of his political generation, shaped by the struggle with communism, Europe is a miracle of history. In a speech to the European Parliament in 2011, he spoke passionately about the European project as a source of hope and inspiration for Central Europe in the grim years of the Cold War. Instinctively pro-EU, Tusk has nevertheless been a pragmatist of European integration. For him, Europe is what you make out of it. It is an opportunity but not a panacea for everything. Member states have to use Europe as a lever but should not outsource their future to Brussels.

 

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