Olivier Bault is a Frenchman who has been living in Poland since the early 1990s. He is the Warsaw correspondent of both the Visegrád Post and the French daily newspaper Présent. As an independent journalist following Polish and European current affairs, he also writes for the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy and for Remix News.
Poland – The European Commission has given Poland until 16 August to suspend its Supreme Court’s new Disciplinary Chamber, failing which it will again refer the matter to the ECJ to apply a daily fine. The financial penalty will increase with each…
Poland – Already dubbed “Lex TVN” by its critics, a law that would force the American owner of one of Poland’s two major private television groups to sell at least part of its shares is worrying the opposition and setting American diplomacy…
Poland – The major significance of the rulings delivered between 13 and 15 July by the European Court of Justice and the Polish Constitutional Court is not lost on anyone in Poland. Outside of Poland, few media outlets seem to understand what…
Poland – Can the EU extend the scope of its competences, without member states having a say, through the decisions of the European Court of Justice? That was the question the Polish Constitutional Court had to answer when it considered, on Wednesday…
Poland – On 7 July, the PiS group announced that it once again had a majority in the Sejm thanks to the return of one of the three MPs who had left at the end of June. The government formed by the…
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…
The leaders of fifteen parties from fourteen different countries, all hostile to a federal Europe and generally representing conservative views, signed a joint declaration on the future of Europe at the same time on July 2. Among the main signatories are Hungary’s…
Poland – The issue of the restitution of real estate that belonged to Jewish families returned to the forefront with a new Polish law adopted by the Sejm on June 24, and a new emotional reaction – largely disconnected from reality –…
With the arrival of Joe Biden as President of the United States, Warsaw finds itself caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, Brussels, Berlin and Paris, now freed from the Eurosceptic Brits, are extending interference and political…
An exclusive interview with Tymoteusz Zych, rector (chancellor) of the new private university Collegium Intermarium.
Inaugurated at the end of May, Collegium Intermarium has a first success to its credit: several left-wing media have violently attacked it, giving it a degree…
Poland – On Wednesday, June 9, at the same time as it initiated proceedings against Germany to assert the primacy of European law, the European Commission sent a letter to the Polish government asking it to withdraw its referral to its Constitutional…
“In view of the increased cross-border cooperation with the Czech Republic, it seems that we are already very close to an agreement. Following this agreement, the Czech Republic has agreed to withdraw its complaint to the ECJ.” This is what Polish Prime…