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YOUNG CHRONICLE November 28th, 2014 More About Donald Tusk (Contd. From Page 1) Tusk's background Tusk, was the Prime Minister of Polland for 7 years, before he took office as the president of EU. He was just a year short of completing his second term as the PM of Poland, when he resigned to take up office at the European Council. Tusk has displayed immense leadership qualities, and is highly respected. However he has a few challenges at hand. The first challenge being that UK plans to withdraw from the EU, because it feels that the immigration laws of the EU are harmful for Britain’s Economy. The second challenge is that Europe lacks unity on policy towards Russia, which is accused of aggression over EU’s neighbour Ukraine. Considering that Tusk has been democratic Poland’s longest serving PM, he may be able to sort both these issues out and come up