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 (PiS) were not sufficiently independent and should no longer hear cases. The new...
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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...
