Poland’s presidential candidates search to broaden attraction on marketing campaign path after nail-biting first spherical vote – Europe dwell

One other massive European story at this time is the EU-UK summit in London, beginning in late morning, which is anticipated to pave the best way for a post-Brexit reset between the 2 events, together with a brand new deal on plenty of contentious points.

The talks had been happening over the weekend forward of a key summit in London hosted by Keir Starmer with EU leaders on Monday, which is geared toward resetting the UK’s relationship with the bloc 5 years after Brexit.

My political colleagues Peter Walker, Jessica Elgot and Lisa O’Carroll report that beneath the settlement, finalised just some hours earlier than a crunch summit in London, Brussels is known to have dropped calls for to hyperlink the period of an settlement over meals and agricultural items with fishing rights.

In line with EU sources, entry to British fishing waters will likely be granted till the tip of June 2038, an extension of 12 years. In return, the settlement on simpler checks for meals, animal and different agricultural merchandise, often called sanitary and phytosanitary items (SPS), is indefinite.

One component that’s not anticipated to be finalised on Monday is the form of any mutual youth mobility scheme, with arguments persevering with in regards to the UK’s insistence that the numbers coming in ought to be capped, which the EU opposes.

My colleague Andrew Sparrow is working the UK politics weblog and can have all the important thing updates all through the day right here:

So, listed below are the official leads to Poland in any case votes had been counted, with the highest two candidates in daring going by means of to the run-off on 1 June.

Rafał Trzaskowski 31.36%
Karol Nawrocki 29.54%

Sławomir Mentzen 14.8%
Grzegorz Braun 6.34%
Szymon Hołownia 4.99%
Adrian Zandberg 4.86%
Magdalena Biejat 4.23%
Krzysztof Stanowski 1.24%
Joanna Senyszyn 1.09%
Marek Jakubiak 0.77%
Artur Bartoszewicz 0.49%
Maciej Maciak 0.19%
Marek Woch 0.09%

Morning opening: Modified priorities forward

Jakub Krupa

Good morning from Poland, the place the highest two candidates in final evening’s presidential elections – centrist Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski and radical-right historian Karol Nawrocki – wasted no time this morning earlier than hitting the marketing campaign path once more forward of the run-off in two weeks’ time.

The ultimate outcomes, revealed this morning, put Trzaskowski marginally forward at 31.36%, with Nawrocki at 29.54%.

With each of them now having to broaden their attraction to get to 50%+1 on 1 June, we’ll inevitably some altering priorities of their campaigns.

There’s loads of votes to be gained, however what makes it unusually tough is that they may come from a very various – even diametrically opposed – group of candidates.

Devising an electoral technique to get votes off Sławomir Mentzen, the libertarian anti-establishment candidate, who got here third at 14.8% and radical proper Grzegorz Braun (6.34%), whereas additionally securing the help of left-of-centre voters who backed Adrian Zandberg (4.86%) and Magdalena Biejat (4.23%) or centrist supporters of Szymon Hołownia (4.99%) might show to be fairly a problem.

As Dr Ben Stanley informed our Tremendous Sunday weblog final evening, “candidate electorates are not Lego blocks” as he warned “those who are stacking them to project second round results are overlooking substantial heterogeneity.”

I can even deliver you some European reactions to the votes in Romania and Portugal, and all different key updates from throughout Europe.

It’s Monday, 19 Might 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa right here, and that is Europe Stay.

Good morning.