Poland - On Saturday, February 6, the main opposition party in Poland, the liberal Civic Platform (PO), presented the idea of a grand coalition of the opposition, called “Coalition 276”. Why 276? Because that is the number of deputies to the Sejm…
Poland - “If someone from the opposition was now leading in the opinion polls, what would happen if the executive power declared a state of emergency in order to postpone the election?”, Krzysztof Szczerski, head of the Chancellery of the President of…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS), never made any secret of the fact that at least two consecutive parliamentary terms were needed for PiS to complete and consolidate its reforms. The top priority was…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Although opposition media have been trying very hard to expose scandals linked to the current ruling party in Poland, the electorate is unimpressed. Jarosław Kaczyński’s social-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) seems to be on track to…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Krasiczyn Castle in southeast Poland, near the city of Przemyśl, hosted some 350 young Hungarians and Poles from 26-30 August for the second edition of a new annual event: the Polish-Hungarian School of Leaders,organised in the form…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
Central Europe - According to the European Commission’s forecasts, Poland and Hungary will be the joint second fastest growing economies in the EU this year, after Malta. The EC has raised its…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - A constitutional majority no longer seems to be completely out of reach for the Law and Justice party (PiS). Is it possible, though, under Poland’s proportional representation system? The D’Hondt method, used to calculate seats allocated in the…
Interview with Polish historian and essayist Dr. Andrzej Krzystyniak: "German historical revisionism acting to undermine Polish Silesia".
Poland - By supporting pro-autonomy or pro-independence foundations and associations, as well as promoters of historical revisionism, and also by way of a German-owned regional…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
European Union - Meeting in Sibiu, Romania, for a European Council on May 9, European heads of state and government discussed whether the Spitzenkandidaten system – first used to choose the head…
By Raoul Weiss.
Europe - The answer given by Annegrete Kramp-Karrenbauer (the now famous AKK, announced successor of Angela Merkel at the head of the CDU) to Emmanuel Macron has already attracted many French comments (including an excellent analysis byMichel Drac). Nevertheless,…
By Olivier Bault.
Originally published on kurier.plus.
Europe - The new Franco-German treaty “of cooperation and integration” signed on January 22 in Aachen, the former capital of Charlemagne’s Frankish empire from which both nations trace their origins, does not represent a breakthrough…
Interview with Ryszard Terlecki, Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm: "The opposition is trying to come back to power by non-democratic means".
Poland – In this last opus of our series of interviews with personalities of the Polish political life, Olivier Bault…