The European Council’s next president for the next five years will be 57-year-old former Polish Prime-Minister Donald Tusk.
On taking office on Monday in Brussels, Tusk faces the challenge of dealing with a war brought to Europe by an aggressive Kremlin.
NATO foreign ministers are to discuss the Ukrainian crisis in Brussels on Tuesday.
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