By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Since March 2019 a growing number of local authorities in Poland, in particular in regions dominated by PiS, have been affirming their opposition to LGBT ideology by adopting a Charter for the Rights of the Family or…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - This time the French mainstream media were much more vocal than during the French president’s October meeting with the Hungarian premier in Paris. Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Warsaw on February 3–4 was described as a turning point…
By Rafał Ziemkiewicz.
Polish President Andrzej Duda announced at the beginning of January that he would not take part in the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army. The organizers of the commemorations, held on 23…
Interview with François-Xavier Bellamy, French MEP belonging to “Les Républicains” (LR) and member of the EPP: “This situation highlights the fact that other parties are exploiting the rule of law in order to generate political dissent.”
On Thursday January 16th, a resolution…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Two elections won by PiS, a thriving economy, a general offensive by the LGBT lobby, and an endless conflict with Brussels.
After the partial victory of PiS and its allies in the municipal and regional elections in…
Interview with Tomasz Przesławski, Polish Supreme Court judge defending the judicial reforms carried out by PiS: "Many of the current actions of representatives of the legal professions can be seen as a threat to basic legal values, causing chaos in the legal…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Parliamentary democracy in Poland defends itself against EU-supported judicial activism. As was to be expected, only two months after Poland’s parliamentary elections, which gave the United Right coalition led by the Law and Justice (PiS) social-conservative party…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation. It was updated and completed for the Visegrád Post on December 10, 2019.
When Donald Trump won the American presidential election in November 2016,…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice (PiS), never made any secret of the fact that at least two consecutive parliamentary terms were needed for PiS to complete and consolidate its reforms. The top priority was…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - On October 21, Poland was once again the subject of a debate in the European Parliament. This time, it was not about the reforms of the judiciary introduced by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government, or the rule of law,…
Poland - Sunday, October 13, 2019, Poland held parliamentary elections. The Law and Justice Party, PiS, won the victory unsurprisingly, extending its mandate for four years.
Proportional voting for the Diet - Polish Parliament - and one-round majority for the Senate was…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - The manoeuvres are pretty crude, but Poles are now getting used to this kind of practice. In the same way that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered an interim order against Poland two days before the…