The High Court of Ireland has ordered that Polish man face trial in his native country despite finding “generalised and systemic” violations to the...
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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...
On the day that Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law judicial reform legislation which had been heavily criticised both within Poland and internationally for...
Ireland is obliged to refuse to extradite a Polish national sought by a European arrest warrant if it concludes that the lack of independence of Polish courts would...
The 65-year-old head of Poland’s Supreme Court, Chief Justice Małgorzata Gersdof, turned up for work on July 4, defying new judicial reforms in the country which will...
Former Polish President Lech Walesa (pictured above, right) and several other former leaders have asked the European Union to defend the rule of law in their country. In...
