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Covid: compulsory vaccination in question in Poland and Czechia

The Editorial Board December 13, 2021

Poland/Czechia – While the announcement of the upcoming introduction of compulsory Covid-19 vaccinations provokes evermore protests in Austria and Germany, this question is also the subject of debate in Poland and the Czech Republic. Lewica offers compulsory vaccination In Poland, where around…

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Influx of illegal immigrants at the Polish border

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault August 24, 2021

Poland/Belarus – The Polish border services, reinforced by a thousand soldiers, are currently trying to prevent an unprecedented wave of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Afghanistan from entering Poland through Belarus. The total length of the Polish–Belarusian border is 418…

Politics

Donald Tusk’s former party sinking into crisis, caught in trap of “total opposition” strategy against PiS

Olivier Bault May 14, 2021

Poland – The abstention of the Civic Coalition (KO) in the Sejm vote on the European Recovery Plan ratification law seems to have accentuated the deepening identity crisis experienced by the main partner in this coalition of liberals and greens: the Civic…

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PiS to adopt EU recovery plan without coalition partner’s support but with help of The Left

Olivier Bault April 30, 2021

Poland – On Tuesday, commentators close to both the government and the opposition seemed to agree: the PiS-led United Right coalition will survive until the next parliamentary elections in 2023. An agreement had been reached between the coalition partners on a new…

Politics

A united opposition to PiS in Poland? It’ll have to be another time…

Olivier Bault February 10, 2021

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…