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Tag - Law and Justice Party
Poland’s incumbent president, Andrzej Duda, has narrowly beaten challenger Rafał Trzaskowski in the second round of a presidential election. With 99.7 per cent of...
Poland appears to have built its last coal-fired power plant. Late on May 19, two state-run Polish utility companies, Enea and Energa, said that they were ending their...
Poland’s governing coalition parties have agreed to postpone Sunday’s presidential election because of the coronavirus outbreak. The nationalist Law and Justice...
Just a couple of short months ago, Poland’s presidential election was seemingly routine, with the incumbent Andrzej Duda set to face a mixed bag of opposition candidates...
As incredible as it may seem in the current climate, with most of Europe on lockdown and national elections cancelled in Serbia and North Macedonia, Poland appears...
After 2019’s pivotal elections for the Polish parliament, the Sejm, in which the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) kept its hold on power, albeit slightly...
The decision last week of Polish state-run utilities Energa and Enea to freeze financing for their joint project to build a new 1GW coal-fired power unit at Ostrołęka...
Poland’s Supreme Court ruled on January 23 that hundreds of judges who had been appointed under a new set of rules introduced by the ruling Law and Justice party...
Judges from at least 14 European countries will march in Warsaw on January 11 in defence of the rule of law in Poland, as the Polish Senate considers a law which would...
The Polish Supreme Court has announced that it has rejected a request by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) to recount the votes in a senate election district in the...
The United States has its liberalism, and Europe has its welfare state, which is so attractive that a few years ago the Union was flooded with a wave of immigrants from...
