Poland's Election: More Trouble Ahead for EU

But the biggest clash is likely to come over Europe’s refugee crisis, which played a major role in the campaign. Along with the EU’s other newer eastern members, Kopacz’s government opposed mandatory quotas on taking in refugees, but under EU pressure agreed to take 5,000 of the 120,000 people the EU wants to spread out through the 28-member bloc. Law and Justice accused the government of capitulating to Germany, and Jaroslaw Kaczynski suggested that migrants could bring diseases into Europe. (He’s also expressed admiration for Hungary’s hard-line anti-immigrant President Viktor Orban, though the two differ sharply when it comes to Vladimir Putin.) Law and Justice’s potential new partner Kukiz has said that most of the people coming into Europe are " economic migrants," not refugees.