Poland – With the next parliamentary elections to be held by 11 November 2023 at the latest, a recent poll reported on 8 February by Do Rzeczy shows that the Polish opposition may have a chance of winning against the United Right,…
Poland – A major defection within Poland’s ruling party PiS at regional level has provoked a palace revolution in the Silesia voivodship, where the party had a one-seat majority of 23 seats out of 45 in the regional council (“Sejmik”). …
The following is an interview with Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a writer and historian specialising in Polish and European history during the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also a former MEP of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Wojciech Roszkowski is…
Interview with Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was once a leading figure in the Civic Platform (PO) and one of the main negotiators of Poland’s accession to the European Union. Disgusted by the way his liberal colleagues sought to push through…
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…
Poland – The conflict between the President of the Polish Supreme Audit Office (Najwyższa Izba Kontroli, NIK) – Poland’s highest audit institution – and the Morawiecki government continues to escalate, now with a request for a waiver of Marian Banaś’s immunity. “This…
Poland – The virulent hostility between Donald Tusk and the Kaczyński brothers, which had lasted since 2005, took a back seat with Donald Tusk’s departure for Brussels in 2014. Unusually, Tusk gave up his post as Prime Minister of the Republic of…
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…
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…
As the political crisis deepens due to the fight between the ruling Conservatives of the PiS and the Liberal opposition, Poland might soon have no more ombudsman.
Poland - On February 18, the Polish Senate rejected the candidacy of Professor Piotr Wawrzyk…
In the Polish political landscape, advocating the legalization of abortion on demand clearly means being on the left of the political spectrum. Polls show that more than three-quarters of Poles are against such a measure. Yet this is the Civic Platform’s new…
Poland - “If someone from the opposition was now leading in the opinion polls, what would happen if the executive power declared a state of emergency in order to postpone the election?”, Krzysztof Szczerski, head of the Chancellery of the President of…