Tens of thousands of Poles rallied to show their support for EU membership on Sunday evening, days after a ruling by the country’s constitutional court that inflamed tensions between Warsaw and Brussels.
Donald Tusk, leader of the main opposition Civic Platform party, called the protests in response to the ruling, which said that parts of EU law were incompatible with the Polish constitution and sparked questions over whether the country could one day leave the bloc in a so-called “Polexit”.
In the capital Warsaw, thousands of people gathered in the square in front of the Royal Palace in the city’s old town, waving EU and Polish flags, holding placards with slogans such as: “I was born in [communist Poland]. I prefer to die in the EU,” and chanting: “We are staying.”