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Brexit Seen from Central Europe: Worst Possible Outcome Now More Likely

Olivier Bault February 6, 2019

Article originally published on Kurier.plus Central Europe - With a little over two months left before the deadline for Brexit, Britons and their fellow Europeans still do not know on what conditions the UK will leave the EU, and even whether it will…

Politics

The Assassination of the Mayor of Gdańsk and the Hypocrisy of the Liberals

Olivier Bault January 26, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published in the French daily paper Présent. Poland – As we might have expected it, the Liberals and particularly the ones of the Civic Platform (PO) of Donald Tusk, did not even waited until the…

Interviews

Jarosław Gowin: “Western Europe Is Still Imbued With Biases And Misconceptions Regarding Countries Like Poland”

Ferenc Almássy January 25, 2019

Interview with the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin, former Minister of Justice: "Western Europe, for its part, is still impregnated with biases and misconceptions regarding countries like Poland". Poland - Jarosław Gowin has been minister…

Interviews

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski: “The Visegrad Group Demonstrates to Western Europe that an Other Way is Possible”

Olivier Bault January 23, 2019

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Member of the European Parliament : "The Visegrad Group demonstrates to Western Europe that an other way is possible". In November 2018, as the Visegrád Post covered the 100th anniversary of the recovery of Poland's independence, Olivier Bault met with Jacek…

Politics

Eight years after the Smolensk disaster, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe urges Russia to return wreck and black boxes to Poland

Olivier Bault November 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV on October 17, 2018. Poland - Adopted on 12 October by representatives of 46 countries, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Resolution 2246 (2018) calls on Russia to return to Poland…

Politics

Regional and municipal elections in Poland: both a victory and a warning for PiS

Olivier Bault October 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Poles voted on Sunday, October 21, to elect their mayors, municipal councilors, councilors in the powiats (cantons) and advisers for the voivodedship sejmik (regional councils) of the sixteen voivodeships in the country. A journalist from public…

Politics

Visiting Warsaw these days, the LIBE committee of the European Parliament is preparing an incriminating report against Poland

Olivier Bault September 24, 2018

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published on Réinformation TV. Translated from French by Visegrád Post. Poland – Visiting Warsaw from the 19 to the 21 September 2018, a delegation of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs…

Politics

Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

Politics

Poland: The PiS victim of its success propaganda

Olivier Bault June 13, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Forty days occupation of the Sejm by disabled persons and their relatives The last 27th of May, a forty days occupation of the corridors of the Sejm (the Polish lower house) by disabled adults and their…

Politics

Reconciliation between Poland and Lithuania in the shadow of an oil refinery

Olivier Bault April 11, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland, Lithuania - While Poland and Lithuania have common interests to defend against Germany and Russia – the opposition against the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is lead by Poland and the three Baltic countries –, they have…

Society

What happened to Polish shale gas?

Olivier Bault March 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In 2011, the US Energy Information Administration estimated shale gas reserves in the Polish basement at 5.3 trillion cubic meters. Other less optimistic estimates then talked about 3 trillion cubic meters, and later the National Geological Institute…

Politics

Triggering Article 7 against Poland: nuclear bomb or wet firecracker?

Sébastien Meuwissen February 5, 2018

By Sébastien Meuwissen. Pologne - Forty years ago, Poland lit the spark that would put an end to Communist totalitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the European Commission has launched the first phase of Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty against…