This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Warsaw, Reuters reporting.

New Prime Minister Donald Tusk said out a pro-European Union vision for Poland and pledged strong support for Ukraine,

a day after his appointment ended eight years of nationalist rule that soured relations with the EU.

There's a complication here that I need help with and Judy Dempsey,

the editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe is here to help me.

Strategic Europe is a document that will arrive via email for the best thinking

the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has put together for the questions in Europe which are

questions in North America now Ukraine war involves all of us in the quandary.

Judy a very good evening to you. Donald Tusk is talking about re-establishing trust

with the EU.

I want to start there before we move

to the Ukraine conflict.

What is the state of conversation

between Warsaw and Brussels? Is it broken? Is it reopening? Is it tense? Good

evening to you.

Good evening, John. Thank you for having me on your show as always. Well, Donald Tusk is no stranger in the European Union.

He was president of the European Council,

that's the member states, so he's well known.

And he is also well known as a former Prime Minister, so he knows the European ropes and he knows the Polish ropes.

The problem he is facing is actually twofold.

One is since the rule of law and undermining the judiciary by the outgoing by the

former conservative government led by Mr. Maseavsky it completely saw

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