Donald Tusk
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Donald Tusk in 2015
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| President of the European Council | |
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Assumed office 1 December 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Herman Van Rompuy |
| 14th Prime Minister of Poland | |
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In office 16 November 2007 – 22 September 2014 |
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| President |
Lech Kaczyński Bronisław Komorowski (Acting) Bogdan Borusewicz (Acting) Grzegorz Schetyna (Acting) Bronisław Komorowski |
| Deputy |
Waldemar Pawlak Grzegorz Schetyna Janusz Piechociński Jacek Rostowski Elżbieta Bieńkowska |
| Preceded by | Jarosław Kaczyński |
| Succeeded by | Ewa Kopacz |
| Leader of Civic Platform | |
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In office 1 June 2003 – 8 November 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Maciej Płażyński |
| Succeeded by | Ewa Kopacz |
| Personal details | |
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Donald Franciszek Tusk 22 April 1957 Gdańsk, Poland |
| Political party |
Liberal Democratic Congress (Before 1994) Freedom Union (1994–2001) Civic Platform (2001–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Małgorzata Tusk |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Gdańsk |
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| Website | Official website |
Donald Franciszek Tusk ([ˈdɔnalt franˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ˈtusk]; born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian. He has been President of the European Council since 1 December 2014. Previously he was Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014) and a co-founder and chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) party.
Tusk has been involved in Polish politics since the early 1990s, having founded several political parties and held elected office almost continuously since 1991. He was elected Prime Minister in 2007 and with his Civic Union party's victory in the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he became the first Prime Minister to be re-elected since the fall of Communism in Poland.
In 2014, he became President of the European Council, and was re-elected to this position in 2017. He resigned as Polish Prime Minister to take the role, having been the longest-serving Prime Minister of the Third Polish Republic.
Tusk was born in Gdańsk in northern Poland. His father, also named Donald Tusk (1930–1972), was a carpenter, and his mother, Ewa (née Dawidowska) Tusk (1934–2009), was a nurse. His grandfather Józef Tusk (1907–1987) was a railway official who was imprisoned at the Neuengamme concentration camp; later, as a former citizen of the Free City of Danzig, he was apparently conscripted by German authorities into the Wehrmacht.
Tusk got his Scottish first name because his paternal grandmother Juliana travelled abroad in her youth and became enamoured of a lord called Donald. She gave this name to her son, who passed it on to her grandson.
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