21/03/2017 (Agence Europe) – After fighting a lone battle to prevent his re-election (see EUROPE 11742), the Polish government now says that, when he was prime minister of Poland (2007-2014), European Council President Donald Tusk committed a criminal offence after the Smolensk air disaster of 2010 in which the country’s president Lech Kaczynski was killed. Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz informed the national prosecutor’s office of possible “diplomatic treason” on the part of Tusk, an offence which carries a possible jail sentence of ten years. The alleged “treason” relates to the way the investigation into the causes of the disaster was handled and “an illegal agreement with (Russian President) Vladimir Putin to the detriment of Poland”. (JK)