We won!” exclaimed Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal mayor, as initial exit polls showed him edging ahead of his opponent, Karol Nawrocki, 50.3 percent to 49.7 percent, in Poland’s presidential election on June 1,

But the Eurosceptic Nawrocki is preoccupied with historical grievances between Poland and Germany, and opposes Kyiv’s Nato membership and EU efforts to build up its own defences independent of the US.