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...
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Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), appears to have emerged from the first round of voting in local elections on October 21 with a share of the vote well...
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...
“The model of liberal democracy is coming under increasing pressure in the OECD and the EU,” explains Daniel Schraad-Tischler, senior analyst and co-author of the study...
The autumn local elections will be an important test of popularity for Poland’s government and opposition parties. Although it is riding high in the polls, they could be...
Polish President Andrzej Duda launched a fierce attack against the European Union on September 11, as he spoke at a meeting of residents of Leżajsk, in Podkarpackie...
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...
In a move to clearly designed to signal its independence from the government, Poland’s Supreme Court announced on August 2 that a law forcing Supreme Court judges to...
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...
