Donald Tusk, the European Council president, is planning to return to Polish politics after the end of his tenure in Brussels

Poland’s nationalist government aims to take the country out of the EU, the European Council president has said.

Donald Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland who now presides over the regular meetings of European Union leaders, predicted that his country’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) would follow Britain’s lead.

“I have no doubt that for PiS one of the goals is to ‘free’ Polish politics from the burden of the EU,” he told Tygodnik Powszecnhy magazine yesterday.

Mr Tusk, who is planning a return to Polish politics in 2020 at the end of his time in Brussels, has suggested that the conservative and nationalist government is planning a Brexit-style referendum by end of the decade.

Poland is the largest net recipient of European