By Olivier Bault.
Poland - After Frans Timmermans, the first Vice-President of the Commission, on July 19, threatened Poland with a recourse to Article 7 of the EU Treaty on bills reforming justice which have been under discussion in the Parliament of…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - It was a promise and the project had been announced more than a year ago: the PiS is trying to quickly impose three major reforms of the Polish judicial system. The first concerns the appointment of presidents of…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The question does not really arise, since the European treaties reserve the right for each country to accept immigrants of its choice on its soil, except for immigrants from other EU countries benefiting the freedom of movement. Nevertheless,…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - It has become extremely common in Warsaw to meet with Ukrainians, usually easily recognizable by their accent: the young saleswoman behind the shop counter, the waiter at the restaurant, the woman in her fifties…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Since Sunday, Ukrainian citizens no longer need visas for tourist stays in the EU, apart from the UK and Ireland.
A simple biometric passport (with 4 million issued at the moment) is enough to stay…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - It is becoming increasingly difficult for the liberal opposition that was in power in Warsaw from 2007 to 2015 to deny the rightness of the Conservative government 's (PiS) ruling to proceed…
By Olivier Bault.
Originally published in French in Présent.
Poland, Warsaw - On Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 May, a summit of the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the national parliaments of Central and Eastern Europe took place in Warsaw. It should be …
By Olivier Bault.
Poland, Helenów - Pressed between Moscow's energy and military pressure in the east, and the economic and ideological pressure of Brussels, Berlin and Paris to the west, twelve Central and Eastern European countries are taking part in the Three…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - "You know the friends of Madame Le Pen, her allies: these are the regimes of misters Orbán, Kaczyński, Putin. These are not open and free democracies. Many freedoms are violated every day and, by this, so are our…
By Olivier Bault.
Translated from French by the Visegrád Post.
Poland - The exhumations of the bodies of the victims of the Smolensk air disaster where Polish President Lech Kaczyński died on 10 April 2010 along with 88 personalities, including crew members and…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - In the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy, Szewach Weiss wondered on March 6 why the Poles are still being asked to apologize for the genocide committed on their territory by Nazi Germany. Szewach Weiss is an Israeli born in…
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…