European Union – Launched by the European Commission in 2019 and tied to a “climate package” of 12 targets in July 2021, the European Green Deal has again been much discussed in recent weeks, with the energy choices it entails being blamed…
Interview with Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was once a leading figure in the Civic Platform (PO) and one of the main negotiators of Poland’s accession to the European Union. Disgusted by the way his liberal colleagues sought to push through…
Poland/Belarus – On Wednesday, the Polish Senate passed an amended version of a bill to allow the construction of an anti-migrant barrier on the border with Belarus. It is already known that the barrier planned to stop the migration wave orchestrated by…
Poland/France – On 27 October, Polish President Andrzej Duda visited Paris where he was received by his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the Élysée Palace. The two heads of state discussed Franco-Polish cooperation in the economic, energy, and security fields, as well…
Czechia – In a theme familiar to many in the West, polling predictions failed dramatically as Czechia held its lower-house elections on October 8-9. This time it worked against the populists, as the outcome was poor for incumbent Prime Minister Andrej Babiš…
Poland/European Union – The 7 October ruling by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, which was issued in response to a question put by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, is a reminder that EU law can only take precedence over the national law of the…
Poland – The 7 October ruling by the Polish Constitutional Court has caused a stir, especially among those who would like to pursue European integration bypassing the democratically ratified treaties, and disinformation was rife in the European media in the aftermath of…
This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 1 October 2021.
The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (also known as LIBE) delegation arrived in Budapest on September 29th; Nicolas Bay, French MEP was among those…
Poland - After the Lesser Poland (Małopolskie) voivodship on 22 September and the Holy Cross (Świętokrzyskie) voivodship on 24 September, the Subcarpathian (Podkarpackie) and Lublin voivodships followed suit on 27 September when their provincial assemblies repealed their 2019 resolutions by which they…
Poland/Czechia – Rather than fostering an agreement between Poland and the Czech Republic, the decision by the ECJ’s Spanish vice-president to impose a daily penalty payment of €500,000 on Warsaw until it closes its lignite mine in Turów, near the Czech border,…
Czech Republic/Hungary – On a visit to Hungary on 22 and 23 September, where he attended the 4th Budapest Demographic Summit together with a number of European political figures, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš went to Röszke, on the Serbian-Hungarian border, to…
Poland/European Union – It is an understatement to say that relations between Brussels and Warsaw have not been very good for the last several years. Many issues (“LGBT rights” and reforms of the judiciary in particular) pit the Polish government, led by…