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'There Is A Question Mark Over Poland's European Future Today'

That's how European Council President Donald Tusk casts the bad blood between the country and the European Union, which have been sparring over a host of issues — both political and personal.
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council and a former Polish prime minister, arrives at the prosecutor's office in Warsaw to deliver testimony Thursday on the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski. / JANEK SKARZYNSKI / Getty Images

Lately it's been impossible to miss.

In Warsaw and Brussels, deep in primeval forests and overlooking the soccer pitch, the bad blood between the Polish government and the European Union officials appears to be seeping into just about every evident interaction — and as European Council President Donald Tusk observed Thursday, it's threatening to rend their relationship apart.

"There is a question mark over Poland's European future today," Tusk told reporters outside that killed 96 people, including the country's president at the time, Lech Kaczynski.

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