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Democratic Security
How Poland’s Judges Have Closed Nawrocki’s Road to Snap Elections
2 November 2026
2 November 2026
Poland and Spain face many of the same problems. Can the Warsaw-Madrid cooperation become a blueprint for a common European strategy to tackle crises?
Seeing every crisis from one’s own backyard may prove to be the strongest obstacle to European cohesion. When Member States try to solve regional and global problems with national tools and national narratives, the EU stops working as a political community. Ministers pledge unity in Brussels and then return to capitals where they must answer to voters and cannot afford to look soft. But solidarity that runs in one direction will not survive the next major emergency. Nowhere has this been clearer than in Europe’s ongoing migration crisis. Spain and Poland have found themselves in the thick of it.
A Visegrad Insight Breakfast in Warsaw with Victoria Ortega Gutiérrez, Ambassador of Spain to Poland, and diplomats from France, Romania, Moldova, Austria and Poland kept returning to this point.