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Ukrainian grain: Poland raising its voice

The Editorial Board September 15, 2023

Poland – At a meeting in Warsaw on July 19, the agriculture ministers of Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia urged the European Commission to extend the ban on grain imports from Ukraine from September 15 to December 31. The previous ban…

Sovereignty.pl

European Commission prioritizing LGBT agenda over general interest of the EU

Partenaire July 22, 2023

To get an illustration of how much the European Commission has become ideologically biased in its dealings with EU member states, one only needs to look at what is happening on the LGBT front, in Poland and Hungary on one hand and…

Sovereignty.pl

EU-supported judges vs parliamentary sovereignty in Poland

Partenaire July 15, 2023

Using financial blackmail against the net beneficiaries of the EU budget in former Eastern Europe, EU institutions are gradually imposing the principle of primacy of European Court of Justice rulings over the EU-27's national constitutions. An article published originally on Sovereignty.pl. To…

Sovereignty.pl

Next Generation EU – The EU’s dangerous game with Poland

Olivier Bault June 12, 2023

Could Poland lose access not only to the Next Generation EU “Recovery and Resilience Facility” funds, which are still being withheld by the European Commission over a long-standing dispute concerning the Polish judiciary, but also to the much-needed cohesion funds promised with…

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Brussels gives go-ahead for Paks power plant expansion

The Editorial Board May 30, 2023

Hungary – Despite the recurring conflicts between Hungary and the European Union’s institutions, there are still issues on which agreement can be reached. One of them is apparently the expansion of the Paks nuclear power plant. On May 25, the…

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21 Hungarian university rectors have sent a letter of protest to Ursula von der Leyen

The Editorial Board March 28, 2023

Hungary – Following a decision by the European Union to exclude 21 Hungarian Universities – that is, 182,000 students, including 30,000 international students, as well as 18,000 researchers – from various EU-funded programs (including Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe), the rectors of those…

Interviews

Grégor Puppinck: “If Poland chooses a liberal government, it will undergo a cultural revolution”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 20, 2023

Interview with Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ): “If Poland chooses a liberal government, the country will undergo an Irish-style cultural revolution. This would mean a cultural reversal and a big shift towards an excessively liberal…

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Andrej Babiš acquitted in Stork’s Nest case

The Editorial Board January 12, 2023

Czechia – Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš was acquitted on Monday, 9 January, by a Prague court in the “Stork’s Nest” case. The news could not have come at a better time for Babiš, with the first round of the presidential…

Politics

Polish draft law written in Brussels to unlock EU funds stirs turmoil back home

The Editorial Board December 19, 2022

Poland – The Polish government announced on Wednesday that an agreement had been brokered with the European Commission on the contentious points of Poland’s justice reforms, invoked by Brussels to block the payment of the 35.4 billion euros corresponding to the Polish…

Society

Lower taxes and subsidies against the energy crisis in Poland

Olivier Bault December 15, 2022

Poland – The surge in energy prices began before the war in Ukraine, and this cannot be stressed enough. A little over a year ago, in early December 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki justified the “anti-inflation shield” implemented by his government by…

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PKN Orlen and MOL oil companies expanding in each other’s base countries

The Editorial Board December 5, 2022

Hungary/Poland – With the beginning of December, the cooperation between Poland’s oil giant PKN Orlen and Hungary’s MOL – the other big player in Central Europe’s oil sector – reached a new level, consolidating the first’s growing regional ambitions and the second’s…

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Polish coal production keeps declining instead of increasing

The Editorial Board November 3, 2022

When it introduced an embargo against Russian coal several months before the rest of the EU, the government of Mateusz Morawiecki promised in March that Polish black coal production would be increased this year by 1 to 1.5 million tonnes. It has…