Nawrocki refuses to meet with Orbán
The presidents of the four Visegrad states – Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland – met in Esztergom, Hungary, on Wednesday. But Poland's right-wing conservative head of state Karol Nawrocki cancelled a planned meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after Orbán visited Putin in Moscow last week.
It's lonely on the losing end
Prominent journalist Bogusław Chrabota writes in Rzeczpospolita:
“Why would the Polish president want to be photographed with a politician who already has a noose around his neck? With a Hungarian government leader who is about to step down and have to face a tough reappraisal of his time in office (although I personally wouldn't rule out the possibility that he will once again manage to extricate himself from the scandal), with a man torn between political loyalty to Donald Trump and economic dependence on Vladimir Putin, with an autocrat who is doomed to fail - if not tomorrow, then the day after? Because anyone who fights with no holds barred is doomed to fail.”
Clear stance against Russia's friends
Political scientist Stanislav Zhelikhovskyi comments in European Pravda:
“This step by the Polish president has opened up a number of fault lines - both within the right-wing opposition in Poland and between the Polish and Hungarian 'conservatives'. However, the key point here is that he has shown that Poland's traditional Right is unbending when it comes to flirting with the Russian federation. And those Polish political powers who represent a different position have found themselves in a clear minority.”