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Poland’s President Andrzej Duda launched the scathing attack during his panel discussion at the World Economic Forum this week when asked about the European project.

Appearing alongside the presidents of Lithuania and Ukraine, Mr Duda took aim at what he saw as the hypocritical stance in Brussels for "creating a crisis" in its relationhsip with Poland.

Mr Duda told the Davos crowd: "This is not a very comfortable situation for the EU - especially when we have Brexit happening too - to create such a big crisis.

“I will call this a crisis, because this really is one. You talked about fake news earlier, that is one of the most dangerous tools of hybrid warfare.