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…
Poland – Poland has not been spared the somewhat totalitarian drift of Western liberalism, including – or perhaps even especially – in universities. Is it because Polish universities are, along with the judiciary, one of those sectors that had never really been…
“To catch an opponent, Lukashenko hijacked a Polish plane,” was the headline on the website of the leading newspaper of the Polish liberal left, Gazeta Wyborcza, on Sunday, May 23. The Ryanair plane used for the Athens–Vilnius flight that day is indeed…
Poland – With the lifting of US sanctions against companies involved in the construction of the second Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea, the forthcoming completion of this new link is now almost certain. This lifting…
Poland – Polish media reported last week that the European Parliament had asked the European Court of Justice to speed up the examination of Poland’s and Hungary’s appeal against the rule of law mechanism adopted at the EU summit in December. This…
Some malicious voices say that this is already an election program, just in case early elections have to be called. The new government program presented last weekend at the national convention of the Law and Justice party (PiS) was, however, also signed…
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…
Conservative journalist banned from television for criticizing Polish government’s anti-Covid policy
Is it still permissible in Poland to criticize the government’s policy against the Covid-19 pandemic? One may have doubts, after public television suspended conservative journalist Jan Pospieszalski’s program Warto Rozmawiać (“It’s worth talking”) following the discussions held on April 12.
The speakers,…
Poland - The Polish economy is faring rather well compared with other EU economies in the face of the crisis caused by health restrictions, with GDP falling by only 2.8% in 2020, and growth forecast at 3.1% this year and 5.1% in…