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Early life

Tusk was born and raised in Gdańsk in Northern Poland. He has Polish, German (through his maternal grandmother) and Kashubian origins, self-identifying as Polish, Kashubian and European. His father, Donald Tusk Sr. (1929–1972), was a carpenter whilst his mother, Ewa Tusk née Dawidowska (1934–2009), was a nurse. His maternal grandmother's native language was Danzig German.

Early political career

Tusk was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny KLD), which in the 1991 elections won 37 seats in the lower house of parliament. The KLD later merged with the Democratic Union (UD) to become the Freedom Union (UW). Tusk became deputy chairman of the new party, and was elected to the Senate in the next election in 1997.……

2005 Polish presidential election

In the shade of the upcoming expiration of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski's second term and his inability to stand for a third term, Tusk and Lech Kaczyński were the leading candidates for the presidential elections.……

First premiership (2007–2014)

Tusk and his Civic Platform party emerged victorious in the 2007 Polish parliamentary election, defeating incumbent prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński's Law and Justice party with about 42% of the vote to Law and Justice's 32%. Tusk and his assembled cabinet were sworn in on 16 November, as he became the fourteenth prime minister of the Third Polish Republic.

Domestic policy

During the 2007 parliamentary election campaign and initially, when he entered office, Tusk promised to continue the free market policies, streamline the bureaucracy, enact long-term stable governance, cut taxes to attract greater foreign business ventures, encourage Polish citizens living overseas to return to Poland, and privatize state-owned companies.……

President of the European Council (2014–2019)

Tusk succeeded Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council on 1 December 2014. After assuming office, Tusk worked to promote a unified European response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Tusk made attempts to co-ordinate the EU's response to the European migrant crisis, and warned illegal economic migrants not to come to Europe.

Second premiership (2023–present)

Return to Polish politics and anti-government protests

In July 2021, Donald Tusk returned to Warsaw, actively reengaging in Polish politics as leader of Civic Platform. In a May 2022 poll, Tusk was among the leading figures considered by the opposition for the potential future prime minister role, however his overall net approval among the general population was reported as 24.4% in the same period.

2023 Polish parliamentary election

In the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, Tusk's Civic Coalition finished as the second-largest bloc in the Sejm.……

Personal life

Donald Tusk married Małgorzata Sochacka in 1978 in Gdańsk, while both were students. The couple has two children, a son Michał (born 1982) and a daughter Katarzyna (born 1987), as well as five grandchildren. They primarily live in Sopot.

Honours and awards

The Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen was awarded to Tusk on 13 May 2010 for his merits in the further unification of Europe and for his role as a "patriot and great European". He dedicated the prize to the people killed in a plane crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 in April 2010 including the Polish president Lech Kaczyński. The eulogy was given by German chancellor Angela Merkel.