In an ideal world and in an ideal democracy, the media plays a crucial role as watchdog. It provides checks and balances and is the voice of scrutiny. It holds the people in power to account. The reality of course is a lot murkier. The media always...
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When news first emerged last weekend that Poland’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, was considering pulling the country out of an international treaty designed...
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...
Przemysław Radzik, the deputy disciplinary spokesperson for the judges of Poland’s common courts, has asked for security after becoming caught up in a scandal that...
UPDATE: Mr Piebiak resigned from his post on the evening of August 21. Yet another scandal has hit the Polish ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), just 52 days before...
A Kraków IKEA worker known as Tomasz K. has been sacked for quoting bible verses that condemn homosexuality. On May 16th, International Day against Homophobia, workers...
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...
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...
Voters in both Hungary and Poland go to the polls this year: a parliamentary election will be held in Hungary in April, local elections in Poland later in the year. In...
Five ministers dismissed and a brand new ministry set up — these are the results of the Polish government reshuffle announced on January 9. The two most controversial...
