With European elections in May, and a general election in the autumn, 2019 is set to be a crucial year for Poland. For the ruling party, it has not started well.
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The right-wing ruling party’s strategy is based on claiming to offer socio-economic stability and prosperity while downplaying controversial issues to avoid mobilising...
State-run bank Alior has sought approval from the Poland’s anti-monopoly watchdog UOKiK to take over Ruch, the country’s troubled newspaper and magazine...
Former Polish president and the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize Lech Wałęsa has told the Russian news agency Sputnik that he believes Russian President Vladimir...
Polish President Andrzej Duda signed legislation on the evening of December 17 which reinstates Supreme Court judges who were forced into early retirement. The European...
Poland’s ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) has caved in to pressure from the European Commission regarding the forced retirement of Supreme Court judges. On November...
The High Court of Ireland has ordered that Polish man face trial in his native country despite finding “generalised and systemic” violations to the...
The liberal-centrist opposition mobilised its core supporters in urban areas winning high profile mayoral races, but the right-wing ruling party won the more politically...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on Russia to hand over the wreckage of from the Smolensk plane crash to the competent Polish...
When I said in my interviews two years ago that the Law and Justice party (PiS) was a threat to democracy, many journalists took the position of symmetry and, in a...
The conflict between Poland and the EU intensified on August 27 after deputy prime minister Jarosław Gowin (pictured above) stated that Poland intended to ignore the...
Andrzej Duda, Poland’s president, has for the fourth time since taking office used his power of veto. This time he has refused to sign into law changes to the way in...
The outlook for the Polish zloty suggests that Poland’s developing authoritarianism is likely to accelerate. For anyone taking an interest in global affairs over the...