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The European Commission wants to assume new powers

Olivier Bault August 2, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - After Frans Timmermans, the first Vice-President of the Commission, on July 19, threatened Poland with a recourse to Article 7 of the EU Treaty on bills reforming justice which have been under discussion in the Parliament of…

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Polish Conservatives push for reform of justice

Olivier Bault July 21, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - It was a promise and the project had been announced more than a year ago: the PiS is trying to quickly impose three major reforms of the Polish judicial system. The first concerns the appointment of presidents of…

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Poles would rather leave the EU than take in Muslim immigrants

Olivier Bault July 12, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The question does not really arise, since the European treaties reserve the right for each country to accept immigrants of its choice on its soil, except for immigrants from other EU countries benefiting the freedom of movement. Nevertheless,…

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Poland has a moral right to say ‘no’ to migrants

The Editorial Board July 3, 2017

Poland - The powerful leader of the ruling PiS, éminence grise of the current conservative government Jarosław Kaczyński, said Poland has a moral right to say 'no' to migrants, since the country did not, unlike others western countries, exploited the countries and…

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Will Poland reject any new Muslim immigrant?

The Editorial Board June 23, 2017

Poland - The only way to protect Poland from terrorist attacks is by not allowing Islamic migrants into the country, Polish European Parliament deputy Ryszard Czarnecki has said. Ryszard Czarnecki, member of the ruling conservative party PiS (Law and Order), made this…

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Smolensk air disaster: new macabre discoveries after the exhumations

Olivier Bault June 5, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - It is becoming increasingly difficult for the liberal opposition that was in power in Warsaw from 2007 to 2015 to deny the rightness of the Conservative government 's (PiS) ruling to proceed…

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Smolensk air disaster: new findings of the commission of inquiry and new macabre discoveries

Olivier Bault April 19, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Translated from French by the Visegrád Post. Poland - The exhumations of the bodies of the victims of the Smolensk air disaster where Polish President Lech Kaczyński died on 10 April 2010 along with 88 personalities, including crew members and…

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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…

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Why Poland was Right Not to Want Donald Tusk as President of the European Council and Why it’s Wrong to Make a Huge Deal Out of it

Olivier Bault March 21, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - Alone against all, or against Tusk -- that is how one could describe the situation of Poland in the European Council of Brussels on Thursday, March 9. Even if the Polish Government did not believe in having Polish…

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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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Angela Merkel’s Visit to Poland Marks a Turning-Point in Bilateral Relations

Olivier Bault February 15, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - For the German newspaper Die Welt, this was the most important visit of a German Chancellor since 1989. While a year ago the leader of the Liberal opposition called for a fight against the Conservative government of…

Society

Lech Walesa, aka agent Bolek

Olivier Bault February 5, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In February 2016, documents recovered from the widow of General Kiszczak, former Minister of Interior of General Jaruzelski, confirmed what many Poles had been convinced of for a long time: before becoming the charismatic leader of Solidarity (Solidarność),…