The 27 other EU leaders overrode weeks of objections from the nationalist government in Warsaw, which has a long and bitter rivalry with former Prime Minister Tusk and opposed giving him another term at the EU. Tusk still felt there was enough unity around him to go on for a second term of 2 ? German Chancellor Angela Merkel said other EU countries had spoken extensively with Poland beforehand. Merkel stressed other EU countries' interest in good relations with Poland. Other EU countries weren't impressed with its proposal that Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a little-known European Parliament lawmaker, replace Tusk in a job traditionally held by a former national leader.

Source: ABC News March 09, 2017 09:08 UTC