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The Mayor of Gdańsk has been Murdered During a Charity Concert

Olivier Bault January 20, 2019

By Olivier Bault. This article was originally published in the French daily paper Présent. On Sunday the 14th of January, like every year, concerts have taken place in several cities of Poland for the closing of this great fundraising event aiming to…

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Eight years after the Smolensk disaster, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe urges Russia to return wreck and black boxes to Poland

Olivier Bault November 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV on October 17, 2018. Poland - Adopted on 12 October by representatives of 46 countries, the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly's Resolution 2246 (2018) calls on Russia to return to Poland…

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November 11 in Poland: Celebration of the Independence Day and Political Ploy

Ferenc Almássy November 12, 2018

By Ferenc Almássy. Poland - November 11, 2018, one hundred years have passed since the end of the 1st World War. It is at the same time the centenary for Poland of the recovery of its independence after 123 years of partition.…

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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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Triggering Article 7 against Poland: nuclear bomb or wet firecracker?

Sébastien Meuwissen February 5, 2018

By Sébastien Meuwissen. Pologne - Forty years ago, Poland lit the spark that would put an end to Communist totalitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the European Commission has launched the first phase of Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty against…

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Fraudulent real estate refunds in Warsaw (2nd part): the murder of a reluctant resident in Donald Tusk’s Poland

Olivier Bault November 5, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - In Warsaw, hearings are ongoing in front of the parliamentary committee charged with investigating fraudulent restitution of some real estate by the city. These renditions have caused many tragedies for residents and merchants expelled from buildings "returned" to…

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Fraudulent real estate refunds in Warsaw: the liberal opposition drops the mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz

Olivier Bault October 17, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland, Warsaw - Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz is not only mayor of Warsaw since 2006, she is also vice-president of the Civic Platform, the "Liberal" Civic Platform (PO) of the current European Council President Donald Tusk. But with the case of…

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Excellent tax revenues for the Polish budget: good news that embarrasses the liberal opposition

Olivier Bault September 29, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Poland - "It was enough not to steal! "This is how Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło explained in April this year the excellent tax revenues and also the profits generated by the coal mines, an industry that was on…