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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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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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Poland will soon celebrate the Centenary of her recovered Independence

Sébastien Meuwissen October 11, 2018

By Sébastien Meuwissen, Belgo-Polish student in journalism at IHECS. Poland - In a month, on Sunday, November 11, 2018, Poland will celebrate 100 years of recovery of her independence. The Independence March in Warsaw is the largest annual patriotic gathering in Europe.…

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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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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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The Visegrád Group and Austria Interior Ministers met in Budapest – strengthening of the regional cooperation on migration

The Editorial Board June 28, 2018

Article originally published on The Hungary Journal. Hungary - Interior ministers of the four Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – and their Austrian counterpart met for talks in Budapest on Tuesday. After the talks, Hungary’s Sandor Pinter called…

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Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

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Polish parliamentarians met Silje Garmo, the Norwegian woman who asked for asylum in Poland for fleeing Barnevernet with her daughter

Olivier Bault June 19, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Published originally in French on Réinformation TV. Poland - The minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland should announce his decision until 22 June in the case of the application for asylum of the Norwegian woman Silje Garmo and her…

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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…