Where is Tusk?

As John Beauchamp reports, Polish President Bronisław Komorowski and head of the European Council Donald Tusk attended a parade in Kiev on Sunday which commemorated the Maidan Revolution and marked the one-year anniversary since the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power.

However, with tensions still high, there are calls for the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, to play a more active role in the EU’s policy towards the Ukraine crisis and towards Moscow in particular.

In Poland, a number of politicians have spoken out on Tusk’s seeming absence in the past weeks. Joachim Brudziński from the opposition Law and Justice is among them.

“The open question is ‘where is Donald Tusk’, where has he been for the past days, who gave the mandate to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande to go in the name of the European Union and agree to the dismembering of Ukraine and to force Poroshenko to sign an agreement which is disfavourable to the country,” Brudziński opined.

However, head of the Civic Platform parliametnary caucus, Rafał Grupiński thinks that Tusk has actually played an active role in Ukraine as of late.

“Tusk is engaging in talks with EU capitals, he was in Kiev for the Maidan anniversary, and without a doubt this activity is due to the partial fiasco which we witnessed with the signing of the second Minsk agreement and the Fraco-German mission,” he said.