Poland's New Leader Seeks Greater Regional Unity, NATO Bases

It's been a dream of some Polish leaders for nearly a century: an alliance of Eastern European countries running from the Baltic Sea down to the Black Sea that would keep Russia at bay. Poland's conservative new president, Andrzej Duda, who took office two weeks ago, has already signaled that building such an alliance under Warsaw's leadership will be a priority of his presidency. That ambition marks perhaps the most significant difference between Duda and his rivals in the...

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