The prime minister submitted relevant decisions to President Andrzej Duda during a solemn government change ceremony in Warsaw. Waszczykowski and Macierewicz were not present at the ceremony, they left the presidential palace a few minutes before it started.
Mariusz Blaszczak, who previously held the post of Poland's interior minister, was named as a new defense minister. Poland's President Andrzej Duda is due to take the oath from new ministers later Tuesday
At the end of 2017 Poland's popular Prime Minister Beata Szydlo resigned in a shocking move amid major dispute escalating between the European Union and eurosceptic Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) over reforms of the Polish court system, logging in an ancient forest and the migrant relocation quota.
Szydlo was replaced by Mateusz Morawiecki, the move which is believed to be aimed at placating criticism from the European Union.
The Cabinet reshuffle comes amid a major row between Poland and the EU. In December, the European Commission made a decision to bring legal action against Poland over the breach of the EU migration policy, as the country had repeatedly refused to take in migrants and thus failed to meet its obligations under the EU relocation scheme.
In November, the EU Parliament launched a mechanism for the application of sanctions by the European Union against Poland, as the country's controversial bills on judiciary reform represent "a clear risk of a serious breach" of European values and the rule of law.
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