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Under pressure from LGBT lobby, Brussels cuts subsidies to Polish region

The Editorial Board August 18, 2021

Poland – Lesser Poland (Małopolska) is a voivodship (region) in southern Poland, with Kraków as its capital. It is also one of the Polish regions whose representatives – mostly those from PiS – adopted a resolution in 2019 declaring the regional administration’s…

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Greece fires: Central Europe sends aid

The Editorial Board August 16, 2021

Greece/Central Europe – Faced with a large number of forest fires since the end of July, Greece – like Turkey and Albania – has appealed for European assistance. In solidarity with the Greeks, Polish, Czech and Slovak firefighters are already on the…

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“Lex TVN” adopted by Polish Sejm in first reading

The Editorial Board August 16, 2021

Poland – A new media bill dubbed “Lex TVN” – for it will hit the American-owned TVN television group first and foremost – was adopted on Wednesday 11 August in first reading by the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament.…

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Lithuanians rioting against health passports in front of parliament

The Editorial Board August 14, 2021

Lithuania – Around 5,000 demonstrators gathered in Vilnius in front of the Seimas, the national parliament, late on Tuesday afternoon. The purpose of the demonstration staged in the capital city of this Baltic state, which borders Poland and Belarus, was to protest…

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March against compulsory vaccination and Covidian segregation in Katowice

The Editorial Board August 11, 2021

Poland – “We are the fourth wave”, “Stop segregation!”, "Free Poland!”, “Keep your hands off our children!” Several thousand people, many carrying white and red flags and references to the Catholic religion, took part in the “Great Freedom March” held on Saturday…

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László Kövér casts a shadow over Slovak–Hungarian relations

The Editorial Board August 9, 2021

Hungary/Slovakia – Just over a month ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovakian counterpart Eduard Heger proclaimed at the Carmelite Convent in Budapest that “relations between Hungary and Slovakia have never been so good”. However, repeated incidents that open up…

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Janez Janša: the EU has no right to impose its views on a member state

The Editorial Board August 7, 2021

European Union – In an interview with the Polish news agency PAP published on Thursday 5 August by the conservative website wPolityce.pl, the Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, who currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, took a…

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Czech Republic: Forcibly sterilized Roma women to be compensated

The Editorial Board August 6, 2021

Czech Republic – On Tuesday 3 August, Czech President Miloš Zeman signed into law a bill approved by the Senate on 22 July, according to which Roma women who were forcibly – and illegally – sterilized in the Czech Republic under the…

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Sovereignists demonstrating in Warsaw

The Editorial Board August 4, 2021

Poland – While Poles were commemorating the anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against German occupation, some chose to show their support for Poland’s independence now, which they believe is threatened by the ambitions of EU institutions. “On Poland’s side!” On the initiative of the…

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CDU Leader pays tribute to victims of Warsaw Uprising

The Editorial Board August 3, 2021

Poland – The commemorative ceremonies marking the Wola massacre – committed 77 years ago, between 5 and 12 August 1944, by SS units against the population of that district as part of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising – took place in…

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Saryusz-Wolski: The supremacy of EU law is not enshrined in the EU treaty

The Editorial Board August 2, 2021

Poland – In an interview given to the PAP press agency, and cited by the Polish press on 30 July, Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (PiS) spoke out the predisposition of EU authorities to affirm the supremacy of EU law over national legislations…

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Czechia: Babiš “promises” that the vaccine will not be mandatory

The Editorial Board July 30, 2021

Czechia – Whilst the Greeks, Germans, French, Italians and Latvians have recently started to foresee such a move, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, during a visit to the Hradec Králové region in north-eastern Bohemia on Thursday 22 July, announced that COVID-19…