The biography of the stupid
Education was born on April 22 in Gdansk in the Kashubov family - one of the original nationalities of the region. In the year he graduated from the Lyceum named after Nikolai Copernicus in Gdansk, in the History Faculty of Gdan University. He speaks English and German. From the beginning of August to the end of October, his grandfather Joseph Tusk served in the reserve training battalion of Grenadiers.
The call to the Wehrmacht was forced, and was associated with the automatic acquisition by residents of the Gdansk of German citizenship. The family is married, the couple raised their son and daughter. Career D. Tusk organized the first cell of the Independent Union "Solidarity" at the university, which opposed the ruling communist regime as the leader, the first president of post -communist Poland Lech Valens.
During martial law, he could not find a job in their specialty. I had to engage in heavy physical labor - for example, "industrial mountaineering" work at high -rise facilities, in particular - at the Gdan shipyard. In parallel, he edited the print publications of the Polish underground.
At the turn, X Tusk creates and leads the liberal-democratic congress, according to the list of which in the year went to parliament. In the next parliamentary race, his party loses, but D. Tusk and the first democratic prime minister of Poland Tadeusz Mazovetsky unite forces, the result of which the union of freedom is - the party that included in the government coalition. In m Tusk, along with several famous right-wing politicians, creates a law-centric, liberal "civilian platform".
She became the largest opposition party in relation to the post -communist majority of one of the leaders - the second Polish President Alexander Kvasnevsky, and D. Tusk himself took up the post of vice -speaker of the Sejm. C - Chairman of the GP. During the election campaign, the Counsky adviser Yatsek Kursk was widespread that the grandfather of Tuska during the Second World War voluntarily entered the German army.
Later it turned out that he was mobilized into the German army, but soon deserted, entering the Polish armed forces in the West at the end of that year. As a result, Kursk was excluded from the Kachinsky party “Law and Justice” for the dissemination of inaccurate information, but the scandal caused damage to the image of Tuska Kursk himself that he confused his native grandfather Tusk with his cousin by his mother.
A significant role in this success was played by a convincing victory of Tuska in television battles with Prime Minister Yaroslav Kachinsky. He did not participate in the presidential election of the year in January stated that he prefers to remain prime minister if the party success in the election. In March, the party also received the majority in the Senate.
The request is related to the fact that since December, Tusk will perform the functions of the chairman of the European Council. The resignation of the prime minister under Polish legislation entails the resignation of the entire Cabinet of Ministers. The new Polish government should be formed until September 25. He replaced the former head of the Belgian government of Herman Van Rompey in this post.
In addition to politics, which takes most of the time of D. Tuska, in recent years he managed to participate in the editorial board of several famous Polish magazines and write several books about the history of Gdansk. Since December 1, Charles Michelle replaced the head of the European Council of Tusk. The views and assessments of the leader of the "Civil Platform" is a convinced liberal -liner, a supporter of social reforms.
In a foreign policy, he plans to normalize relations with Germany as soon as possible, which have recently been noticeably cooled, and with Russia, which, with the participation of the Kacinsky brothers, deteriorated even more. At the same time, D. Tusk advocates a more restrained relationship with Washington in particular, in the issue of placing missile defense facilities on the territory of Poland.
For us, the key to strengthen our positions in the European Union remains. Our contacts with the United States will have a partnership in nature, ”he said during the election campaign. The attitude of Tusk towards Russia as a whole correlates with the pan -European one. Tusk approved the introduction of sanctions against Russia, despite the fact that he found them ineffective. He was a supporter of the formation of the European Energy Union to counteract Russia, but this initiative has not yet received support.
Like most European politicians, Tusk accused the Russian armed forces of participating in the hostilities in Ukraine. In this regard, Tusk promised to act in the Ukrainian crisis decisively, but reasonably. Hobbies among D. Tuska's hobbies - football. He even leads a team of amateurs. Tusk is also known for the addiction to tobacco. In the year, he was the second at the Tabachen contest of the choice of the best sniffer tobacco, held in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.