Europe’s populist swing: Why Poland is the next test case | On The Record

In this episode of On the Record, host Aaron Dahmen speaks with Aleks Szczerbiak, Professor at the University of Sussex and Anna Wojciuk, Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw about the deeper conservative forces shaping politics across Europe – just weeks before the Polish presidential election.

The vote is set to be a referendum on the country’s pro-EU governing coalition and will send a signal beyond Poland’s borders on whether Warsaw will continue its growing leadership within the European Union, or revert back to a path of Euroscepticism.

As Prof. Wojciuk says, “security is one of the few areas where the president [of Poland] actually has agency. That’s why it’s front and center, especially with the war in Ukraine.” Prof. Szczerbiak believes that if the ruling Civic Coalition’s candidate and current mayor of Warsaw – Rafał Trzaskowski – loses, “it will look like the government has run out of steam."

Aaron Dahmen and his guests also analyze the impact of Donald Trump, NATO and EU skepticism, and how Poland’s leading presidential candidates are pivoting further to the right as polling day nears.

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