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Ryszard Terlecki: “In Poland, The Opposition Is Trying To Come Back To Power By Non-Democratic Means”

Olivier Bault February 23, 2019

Interview with Ryszard Terlecki, Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm: "The opposition is trying to come back to power by non-democratic means". Poland – In this last opus of our series of interviews with personalities of the Polish political life, Olivier Bault…

Politics

Brexit Seen from Central Europe: Worst Possible Outcome Now More Likely

Olivier Bault February 6, 2019

Article originally published on Kurier.plus Central Europe - With a little over two months left before the deadline for Brexit, Britons and their fellow Europeans still do not know on what conditions the UK will leave the EU, and even whether it will…

Politics

The Assassination of the Mayor of Gdańsk and the Hypocrisy of the Liberals

Olivier Bault January 26, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published in the French daily paper Présent. Poland – As we might have expected it, the Liberals and particularly the ones of the Civic Platform (PO) of Donald Tusk, did not even waited until the…

Interviews

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski: “The Visegrad Group Demonstrates to Western Europe that an Other Way is Possible”

Olivier Bault January 23, 2019

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament : "The Visegrad Group demonstrates to Western Europe that an other way is possible". In November 2018, as the Visegrád Post covered the 100th anniversary of the recovery of Poland's independence, Olivier Bault met with Jacek…

Society

The Mayor of Gdańsk has been Murdered During a Charity Concert

Olivier Bault January 20, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published in the French daily paper Présent. On Sunday the 14th of January, like every year, concerts have taken place in several cities of Poland for the closing of this great fundraising event aiming to…

Society

Poland, Land of Asylum for Norwegian Families

Olivier Bault January 12, 2019

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Norwegian mother Silje Garmo and her two-year-old daughter Eira, who fled from their country’s social services (Barnevernet), have won the right to asylum in Poland. Specifically, the Minister of Foreign Affairs has approved her request for asylum,…

Politics

Eight years after the Smolensk disaster, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe urges Russia to return wreck and black boxes to Poland

Olivier Bault November 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV on October 17, 2018. Poland - Adopted on 12 October by representatives of 46 countries, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Resolution 2246 (2018) calls on Russia to return to Poland…

Politics

PiS and Fidesz youths meet at Krasiczyn Castle, Poland

Olivier Bault November 29, 2018

Poland - The Polish-Hungarian Cooperation Institute Wacław Felczak organized a "Polish-Hungarian School of Leaders" from 22 to 25 November at Krasiczyn Castle in south-eastern Poland. These leaders are young people linked to the ruling PiS (Poland) and ruling Fidesz (Hungary) who are…

Politics

Regional and municipal elections in Poland: both a victory and a warning for PiS

Olivier Bault October 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Poles voted on Sunday, October 21, to elect their mayors, municipal councilors, councilors in the powiats (cantons) and advisers for the voivodedship sejmik (regional councils) of the sixteen voivodeships in the country. A journalist from public…

Politics

Polish judges call for the Court of Justice of the EU against the parliamentarian democracy

Olivier Bault October 17, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The mechanism of the preliminary ruling that allows any court to turn to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is instrumentalized by Polish judges struggling with the reforms of the judicial institution voted by the…

Politics

Visiting Warsaw these days, the LIBE committee of the European Parliament is preparing an incriminating report against Poland

Olivier Bault September 24, 2018

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Réinformation TV. Translated from French by Visegrád Post. Poland – Visiting Warsaw from the 19 to the 21 September 2018, a delegation of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs…

Society

Lacking manpower, Poland relies on Asian immigration besides Ukrainians and Belorussians

Olivier Bault August 24, 2018

By Olivier Bault Poland - “You have lied to the Poles”, accused in last June the leader of the nationalist party Ruch Narodowy (National Movement) Robert Winnicki during a debate at the Parliament about the social policy of the…