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Repolishification of Poland’s written press

The Editorial Board April 12, 2017

Article originally published in French on OJIM, with the title : "Pologne : déconcentration-repolonisation de la presse écrite". Poland’s biggest national newspaper (Fakt), its third-largest news weekly (Newsweek Polska), the biggest Polish Website (onet.pl), and a prestigious business monthly (Forbes Polska) are…

Politics

The End of the Polish-Hungarian Idyll? Of Course Not!

Ferenc Almássy March 20, 2017

By Ferenc Almássy. European Union - Is it the end of the Polish -Hungarian idyll? Poland did not want Tusk to be reelected as president of the European Council, yet the other members of V4, including Viktor Orbán's Hungary , …

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The European Commission Renews its Attacks Against Poland

Olivier Bault March 8, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - While in Poland the conflict surrounding the Constitutional Court (CC) has somewhat subsided as a result of the departure of its President Andrzej Rzepliński, who had the unfortunate habit of commenting on the laws adopted by the…

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Visegrád Group Wants “a Better Europe”

The Editorial Board March 4, 2017

Poland, Warsaw - The leaders of the Visegrád Group adopted on Thursday, March 2, a joint statement on their input to the Rome Declaration, which will be adopted at the summit in the Italian capital on March 25. They reject the idea…

Politics

After The End of The Polish Parliamentarian Crisis, The PiS is Still Leading in The Polls

Olivier Bault January 17, 2017

By Olivier Bault. One could speak of a parliamentary crisis done for nothing from the point of view of the "total" opposition, that is to say of the two liberal libertarian parties backed by Brussels for a year in their attempt to…

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After One Month Of Occupation Of The Polish Diet By A Part Of The Opposition, The Parliamentary Crisis Draws To An End

Olivier Bault January 12, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - During the Christmas break between the sessions of the Polish Parliament, from December 17 to January 10, MPs from the two liberal parties (the PO, of which Donald Tusk was the leader before his departure for Brussels…

Politics

Poland: the political crisis does not benefit the opposition

Olivier Bault December 23, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - If some French media wanted to present the crisis of the past week in the Polish parliament as a mass lifting of the democratic opposition against the "dictatorial" practices of the conservative PiS party in the government,…

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“Polish liberal-libertarian opposition tackles democracy”

Olivier Bault December 19, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Not satisfied with having plunged Poland into a constitutional crisis by wanting to appoint 5 judges of the Constitutional Court in advance to elections that they knew lost, not satisfied to blame the conservative winners of the October elections…

Society

The Smolensk air disaster investigation takes over, the exhumations continue

Olivier Bault December 9, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Russia, Smolensk - There are now eight bodies of which it is known that they had not been put in the coffin that was assigned to them and that had arrived leaden in Poland with prohibition to the families…

Politics

Poland Lowers Requested Retirement Age

Olivier Bault November 25, 2016

"In opposition to the EU, Poland is betting on demographics and lowering of the retirement age", by Olivier Bault. Poland - This was one of the campaign promises of the PiS and of President Andrzej Duda: reducing the retirement age from 67…

Society

Independence March: Polish patriots standing against Facebook

Olivier Bault November 3, 2016

By Olivier Bault. On November 11 will take place in Warsaw as every year the great march of Independence organized by nationalist circles and supported by conservatives and other Polish patriots. Last year, for the first time, this march was free of…

Politics

Smolensk, April 10, 2010: Did Polish President Lech Kaczyński die in an accident or an attack?

Olivier Bault October 1, 2016

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The investigation was reopened in Poland with a new commission of inquiry set up in March by the government of the conservative party (PiS), specifically by the Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz as part of the Commission investigation…