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Smolensk, April 10, 2010: Did Polish President Lech Kaczyński die in an accident or an attack?

Olivier Bault October 1, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The investigation was reopened in Poland with a new commission of inquiry set up in March by the government of the conservative party (PiS), specifically by the Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz as part of the Commission investigation…

Society

Is Poland going towards a total ban on abortion?

Olivier Bault September 23, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Update - 09/23/2016: The project of liberalization of abortion was rejected in first reading, the project of abortion ban was referred back to committee. On Friday, the Polish Parliament decided to refer in Commission of Justice and Human Rights the…

Politics

The European absurd theatre

Olivier Bault September 19, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - "Absurd theatre" is the term used by the Polish Ryszard Legutko (PiS) speaking on behalf of the European Conservative Group and rare reformist MPs present during Tuesday's debate on the draft resolution of theEuropean Parliament "on recent…

Politics

Economic patriotism was honored at the Forum in Krynica

Olivier Bault September 13, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - At the 26th Economic Forum in Krynica, where Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Viktor Orbán called for counter-cultural revolution in Europe, the close links between the PiS and Fidesz party currently in power in Poland and Hungary were particularly emphasized,…

Politics

Orbán and Kaczyński Want a Cultural Counter-Revolution in Europe

Olivier Bault September 9, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland, Krynica - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, head of the Conservative party Fidesz, and Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the Conservative Law and Justice party in power in Poland, participating in a debate of the Economic Forum in Krynica,…

Society

The genocide that still poisons relations between Poland and Ukraine

Olivier Bault September 4, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Officially, Poland is the best support for the European aspirations of Ukraine and also in her conflict which now opposes her to Russia in the Crimea and the Donbass. Not always for very laudable motives besides, since at the…

Society

The Polish army and the Virgin Mary

Olivier Bault August 21, 2016

By Olivier Bault. For Polish Catholics as for Catholics around the world on August 15 is the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Marian devotion is the center of religiosity on the banks of the Vistula, therefore in the country…

Society

For a solidary redistribution of the terrorist attacks

Olivier Bault August 18, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Seen today in the streets of Warsaw, Poland, this poster is calling to share the attacks to show solidarity. A reference of course to the German pressure for redistribution throughout the European Union of illegal immigrants Angela Merkel encouraged…

Society

Czechia does not want to end up like France or Germany

Olivier Bault August 5, 2016

By Olivier Bault. In answer to the German European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Günther Oettinger, who reproached to Czechia her refusal of the compulsory quotas of migrant relocation (we are talking about people who entered illegally in Europe and we know…

Culture

The World Youth Day from Poland views

Olivier Bault August 4, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Pope Francis took off from the Kraków airport on Sunday evening after a highly successful 2016 edition of the World Youth Day. Aside from the extremely naive remarks about Islam made by the Bishop of Rome from 10 km…

Politics

After the wave of attacks, Poland requests explanations from Germany

Olivier Bault July 26, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In Reutlingen, it's a Polish girl who was killed with a kebab knife by a Syrian "refugee", which nearly cut off her head. Attacks by "refugees" and Muslim immigrants succeed in Germany as in France, some claiming to…

Politics

Nice attack: the consequence of multiculturalism for a Polish minister

Olivier Bault July 18, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Speaking in the wake of the Nice attack, Polish Minister of Interior Mariusz Błaszczak harshly criticized the reactions to the previous attacks in France and in Belgium: "This is another attack. Last November, it was Paris,…