I congratulated him on his June 1 election victory and wished him success,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram. “We expect Poland to ...

Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski said he had no regrets about his presidential campaign and that he gave it everything he had, speaking publicly for the first time since his narrow defeat to Karol ...

Trzaskowski’s rival, Karol Nawrocki, is a conservative historian with a past that would make notorious “Red Scare”-era Washington lawyer Roy Cohn proud.

Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89% of the vote, defeating the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski – long the ...

Trzaskowski, backed by the current prime minister, Donald Tusk, received 31.4% of the vote in the first round. Nawrocki, a historian supported by the right-wing populist Law and Justice party (PiS ...

Trzaskowski, 53, is Warsaw’s mayor and a close ally of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. A deputy leader of the pro-EU Civic Platform, he has been prominent in national politics for years.

Had Trzaskowski won an additional 0.9 percent of the votes, that would not have spelled final defeat for authoritarian populism. Other narrow victories in other places don’t either.

SZCZECIN, Poland (Reuters) - Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, the Oxford-educated son of a jazz musician and frontrunner in Sunday's Polish presidential election, made friends across the European ...

Rafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, campaigning on May 18. He is backed by Civic Platform, the party of the centrist prime minister, Donald Tusk. Kacper Pempel/Reuters ...

Mr. Trzaskowski has led in opinion polling, but the Law and Justice-backed Karol Nawrocki is second, with a far-right populist in third. Wojtek Radwanski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

For now, Trzaskowski has the three European Council meetings scheduled for the first half of 2015 on his mind, including one in March where EU leaders will discuss whether to maintain sanctions on ...

Karol Nawrocki, the candidate aligned with Poland’s right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, won 50.89% of the vote, defeating the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski – long the ...