Polish Premier Urges Calm as Coalition Partner Upset by EU Deal

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Poland’s prime minister urged his junior coalition partner to stay in the government after he reluctantly agreed, against their demands, to strengthen the European Union’s ability to discipline countries in breech of the bloc’s democratic values.

The junior partner, a party led by Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, is set to meet to determine its future path after Premier Mateusz Morawiecki ignored their “veto or death” rallying cry at Thursday’s EU summit.