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“Nearly 30% of Poland’s yearly GDP disappeared from the state coffers as a result of eight years of Donald Tusk’s government”

Sébastien Meuwissen February 21, 2022

The following is an interview with Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a writer and historian specialising in Polish and European history during the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a former MEP of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Wojciech Roszkowski is…

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Pro-migrant activism and Tusk’s criticism of the government

The Editorial Board September 2, 2021

Poland – As the situation of 32 migrants stranded on the Belarusian side of the border near the Polish village of Usnarz Górny (Podlaskie) remained stalled – with Polish border guards denying them passage to Poland and their Belarusian counterparts preventing them…

Politics

Back to the Tusk–Kaczyński duel? Not sure that’s what Poles want…

Olivier Bault July 10, 2021

Poland – The virulent hostility between Donald Tusk and the Kaczyński brothers, which had lasted since 2005, took a back seat with Donald Tusk’s departure for Brussels in 2014. Unusually, Tusk gave up his post as Prime Minister of the Republic of…

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Donald Tusk’s former party sinking into crisis, caught in trap of “total opposition” strategy against PiS

Olivier Bault May 14, 2021

Poland – The abstention of the Civic Coalition (KO) in the Sejm vote on the European Recovery Plan ratification law seems to have accentuated the deepening identity crisis experienced by the main partner in this coalition of liberals and greens: the Civic…

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Now that Viktor Orbán and Fidesz have finally exited Donald Tusk’s EPP Group, what is the next step?

Bill Ravotti March 23, 2021

Orbán indicated that he wanted to form a party with Matteo Salvini (Italy) and the PiS of Poland. However, what was once possible in 2019 (when Orbán decided to stay with EPP), may prove more difficult today. Salvini, whose Lega party is…

Society

Donald Tusk’s former party confirms its left-wing stance by advocating abortion on demand

Olivier Bault February 22, 2021

In the Polish political landscape, advocating the legalization of abortion on demand clearly means being on the left of the political spectrum. Polls show that more than three-quarters of Poles are against such a measure. Yet this is the Civic Platform’s new…

Politics

Donald Tusk summoned in Poland as a witness concerning a lawsuit about the Smolensk’s air crash

Olivier Bault May 2, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Published originally in French on Reinformation TV on April 24, 2018. Poland - That was not the first time that the President of the European Council Donald Tusk was summoned last Monday concerning the air crash in Smolensk that…

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Fraudulent real estate refunds in Warsaw (2nd part): the murder of a reluctant resident in Donald Tusk’s Poland

Olivier Bault November 5, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In Warsaw, hearings are ongoing in front of the parliamentary committee charged with investigating fraudulent restitution of some real estate by the city. These renditions have caused many tragedies for residents and merchants expelled from buildings "returned" to…

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Why Poland was Right Not to Want Donald Tusk as President of the European Council and Why it’s Wrong to Make a Huge Deal Out of it

Olivier Bault March 21, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Alone against all, or against Tusk -- that is how one could describe the situation of Poland in the European Council of Brussels on Thursday, March 9. Even if the Polish Government did not believe in having Polish…

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EU Council President Tusk: “We must secure our borders”

The Editorial Board September 13, 2016

European Union - Donald Tusk, former Polish Prime Minister and current President of the EU Council finally admitted that "we must secure our borders". Last year, the center-left politician said in front of the UN that "for Europe, isolationism has never been,…

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Investigation committees and cordon sanitaire policy against the biggest party in the Polish Sejm

The Editorial Board December 8, 2023

Poland – A month and a half after Law and Justice’s Pyrrhic victory in the Polish parliamentary elections, with all observers predicting a very short life for Mateusz Morawiecki’s new government that was sworn in on November 27, the Polish Sejm seems…

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Controversy over four Polish MEPs having their immunity lifted by the European Parliament

The Editorial Board November 20, 2023

Poland/EU – On November 9, the European Parliament decided to lift the parliamentary immunity of four Polish MEPs from the Law and Justice (PiS) delegation to the European Parliament’s European Reformist and Conservatives group: Beata Mazurek and Tomasz Poręba, who belong to…