Politics
100,000 in Poland Take to the Streets Asking to Stay in the EU
Demonstrators gather during a pro-EU demonstration, in front of the Royal Castle in Warsaw on Oct. 10.
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Poles took to the streets to show support for European Union membership after a controversial court verdict plunged the country’s already fraught relations with the bloc to a new low.
As many as 100,000 people thronged a square at Warsaw’s historic old town on Sunday evening after former European Council president and opposition leader Donald Tusk urged his compatriots to protest the ruling that rejected a pillar of EU law. The judgment threatens to sink billions of euros in aid and has sparked concerns the biggest eastern member might one day end up leaving the bloc.