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Interview conducted by Olivier Bault for the magazine Do Rzeczy : “Italy closer to the V4?” An interview with Max Ferrari, journalist, international affairs expert for the Italian party Lega, and advisor to the President of the Region of Lombardy,…

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…

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Polish judges call for the Court of Justice of the EU against the parliamentarian democracy

Olivier Bault October 17, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The mechanism of the preliminary ruling that allows any court to turn to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is instrumentalized by Polish judges struggling with the reforms of the judicial institution voted by the…

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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…

Society

Lacking manpower, Poland relies on Asian immigration besides Ukrainians and Belorussians

Olivier Bault August 24, 2018

By Olivier Bault Poland - “You have lied to the Poles”, accused in last June the leader of the nationalist party Ruch Narodowy (National Movement) Robert Winnicki during a debate at the Parliament about the social policy of the…

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Parliamentarian democracy against judges’ dictatorship: supported by Brussels, some Polish judges refuse to obey the laws voted by the parliament!

Olivier Bault August 16, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Published originally in French on Réinformation TV. Poland - On Tuesday, 2018, July 24, the Polish Senate adopted in first lecture several amendments to the reform laws of the Judiciary. The particularity of those amendments was that they…

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The Three Seas Initiative, a new forum of cooperation of twelve Central European countries countervailing the Berlin-Brussels-Paris Axis?

Olivier Bault July 13, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Originally published in French on Réinformation TV. Poland, Rzeszów - The first Forum of the Regions of the Three Seas Initiative (3SI) took place on July 3, in Rzeszów, Poland. This initiative has been started in 2015 by the…

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Under pressure from the USA, Poland steps back on its memorial law

Olivier Bault July 3, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Polish and Israeli Prime Ministers signed a common declaration to end the dispute. The amendments to the Polish memorial law concerning the Shoah and the Nazi crimes committed in Poland at the origin…

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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…

Society

When a Norwegian woman asks for Asylum in Poland

Olivier Bault May 13, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Today in Europe, freedom is in the East, as the Norwegian Silje Garmo did prove it by seeking asylum in Poland. Will Poland grant asylum to the Norwegian Silje Garmo and her…

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Donald Tusk summoned in Poland as a witness concerning a lawsuit about the Smolensk’s air crash

Olivier Bault May 2, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Published originally in French on Reinformation TV on April 24, 2018. Poland - That was not the first time that the President of the European Council Donald Tusk was summoned last Monday concerning the air crash in Smolensk that…

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Poland: the right wing coalition lead by the PiS is looking for a second wind

Olivier Bault April 19, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Poland will soon enter a new cycle of elections that will be inaugurated in October-November with the municipal and voivodeship councils elections. There will be then the European Parliament election in 2019 followed by the elections to…