Most obviously, Poland is a major NATO ally that could do with some reassurance from the United States at the moment. Poland has been a member of the bloc since 2004, and polls suggest that the country's general public is far more supportive of E.U. While the current government officially supports further integration with the E.U., it wants to do so only on terms that are beneficial to Poland. “We have new success: Trump's visit,” Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the PiS leader, said last week. The Polish- and Croatian-led initiative seeks to strengthen ties among 12 nations in Central and Eastern Europe, all of them E.U.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2017 22:12 UTC