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 […]
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FOR TWO decades Poland has been a leader among the post-communist nations of Central Europe, with a rapidly growing economy and mounting influence as a member of NATO and the European Union. So the sudden eruption of a political crisis […]
After losing parliamentary elections in 2011, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, declared that one day “we will have a Budapest in Warsaw” — using the illiberal turn by Hungary’s populist Prime Minister, Victor Orban, as […]
Tens of thousands of people have protested against Poland’s new conservative government for the second weekend in a row, saying they are defending the constitution. Demonstrations took place in Warsaw and around 20 other Polish cities. The Law and Justice […]
In the few weeks since Poland’s new right-wing government took over, its leaders have alarmed the domestic opposition and moderate parties throughout Europe by taking a series of unilateral actions that one critic labeled “Putinist.” Under their undisputed leader, Jaroslaw […]
Polish media on Monday led with the story of a Polish national living in Norway who was arrested in Poland on terrorism charges, after having spent several months in Syria fighting on behalf of the “Islamic State” group. The 26-year-old […]
Newly appointed Antoni Macierewicz criticised for saying hoax document about plan for world domination could be real Poland’s newly appointed defence minister has been condemned for entertaining the possibility that a fraudulent document claiming to show there is a Jewish […]
Commenting on the victory of the right-nationalist Law and Justice Party at last week’s parliamentary elections, liberal Polish journalist Ziemowit Szczerek warned that while it will be a step backward for Poland, the party’s victory actually constitutes a diplomatic victory […]
Poland’s Law and Justice, a rightwing eurosceptic party, is likely to oust the ruling pro-EU Civic Platform in parliamentary elections scheduled this Sunday, further evidence that anti-liberal, anti-EU and anti-immigrant movements are gaining momentum in Europe. Like Hungary’s prime minister, […]
“‘Putinism with a Polish face!” “Cultural revolution à la Polonaise!” “Orbanisation on the Vistula!” (Orbanisation refers of course to Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s model of illiberal democracy.) I listen to my Polish friends’ Cassandra cries after voters handed victory […]