The Ukraine crisis has shifted Poland's campaign for next month's European elections, boosting the governing centre-right party's chances as its prime minister reassures voters nervous about Russia's next move.

Since the start of the Ukraine crisis, the head of government, his Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and President Bronislaw Komorowski -- who is close to the Civic Platform (PO) governing party -- have never missed an opportunity to appeal to the country's sense of national security.

According to an average of the four latest EU election surveys released in Poland, Civic Platform is ahead with 28 percent while PiS has 26 percent.

Meanwhile an opinion survey carried out by the Homo Homini polling institute on Monday found that 65 percent of respondents consider the government's handling of the Ukraine crisis sufficient, while only 23 percent said it was not enough and 12 percent said they did not know.

With six weeks until the elections, Civic Platform is the favourite in the race for EU seats, Mistewicz said.

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