CPAC Conference to Make Polish Debut Later This Year

On 24 March 2025, Notes from Poland report­ed that the Con­ser­v­a­tive Polit­i­cal Action Con­fer­ence (CPAC), a major Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tive gath­er­ing, will be held in Poland for the first time. The arti­cle begins:

CPAC, a major con­fer­ence organ­ised by the Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive Union (ACU), will be held in Poland this year for the first time, ACU’s pres­i­dent, Matt Schlapp, has announced dur­ing a vis­it to the coun­try. “We just announced CPAC in Poland lat­er this year,” wrote Schlapp, who was in Poland to col­lect an award from con­ser­v­a­tive broad­cast­er Repub­li­ka, in a post on X. “St. John Paul help guide our steps,” he added, refer­ring to for­mer Pol­ish Pope John Paul II. CPAC has been held annu­al­ly in the Unit­ed States since 1974 and is attend­ed by lead­ing con­ser­v­a­tive activists. The keynote address at this year’s event was giv­en by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, who also briefly met with his Pol­ish coun­ter­part, Andrzej Duda, on the side­lines of the conference.

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Key Points:

• Poland will be only the sec­ond Euro­pean coun­try to host CPAC, after Hun­gary, which host­ed the event in 2022 and 2024.
• The announce­ment comes amid strong ties between Pol­ish Pres­i­dent Andrzej Duda and Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, who recent­ly called Duda “a fan­tas­tic man and a great friend.”
• Pol­ish con­ser­v­a­tives view the event as a sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ty to influ­ence Euro­pean right-wing pol­i­tics and strength­en transat­lantic relations.
• The tim­ing is polit­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant as Duda’s term ends in August 2025, with elec­tions in May/June where con­ser­v­a­tive can­di­date Karol Nawroc­ki cur­rent­ly polls second.

The Repub­li­can CPAC con­fer­ences have also recent­ly tak­en on a greater role in the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA) in the same way as the Nation­al Con­ser­vatism Conferences.

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