Poland’s $3 billion (2 billion pounds) army helicopter deal with Airbus (AIR.PA) is “very likely” to be canceled, the deputy defense minister said on Tuesday, signaling one of Warsaw’s key military programs, speeded up in response to the Ukraine crisis, […]
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The European Commission has opened an unprecedented inquiry into whether new Polish laws break EU democracy rules. Vice-President Frans Timmermans announced a “preliminary assessment” under the EU’s “rule of law mechanism“. Critics of Poland’s right-wing government protested at changes to […]
It has been distressing these past weeks to watch Poland, long the poster child of Eastern European states that shed the Kremlin’s suffocating embrace, adopting dictatorial measures of its own, not least a right-wing, nationalistic assault on the country’s media […]
Not every democracy needs a supreme court with the power to block legislation it deems unconstitutional. But Poland’s reforms of its Constitutional Tribunal, enacted by a right-wing majority and signed into law by a conservative president, are worrisome signs for […]
A new law lets the government purge the public broadcaster SINCE parliamentary elections in October, Poland’s far-right Law and Justice party (PiS) has controlled the country’s presidency and both chambers of parliament. It has spent its first two months in […]
Poland’s new government is seeking to undermine the influence of Brussels, Germany and Russia in favour of the US and NATO, warned the German press on Saturday.The European Commission is alarmed by the authoritarian reforms the Polish government is making to the […]
The shackling of Poland’s top court is the latest troubling sign that Jarosław Kaczyński is taking his country in Hungary’s illiberal direction. Democracy is under threat in Poland, the European Union’s sixth-largest member state. Just two months after the nationalist […]
An Israeli man and a Polish woman were reunited Wednesday in New York, seven decades after her Catholic family saved him during the Holocaust. Michael Hochberg, 77, sat holding hands with 86-year-old Krystyna Jakubowska at Kennedy International Airport…
Five years after the country’s president and 95 others went down in a forest in Russia, Poland’s new leaders are pouring fuel on the cover-up fire. In 2007, the same year the first Law and Justice government, headed by Jaroslaw […]
The city is positioning itself as Eastern Europe’s chic cultural capital with thriving art and club scenes and serious restaurants. In the 11 and a half years since Poland ascended to the European Union, its capital city has already been […]