Central Europe The European Union’s top court on Thursday ruled that Poland’s system for disciplining judges undercut the bloc’s laws, part of an escalating battle over democratic rules that Polish government critics warn could...
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Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš survived a confidence vote in parliament last week, but now faces a potentially more hostile foe in the form of an EU investigation...
Ten years after of the landmark declaration of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on women’s rights, a significant number of countries in Central and...
While an early election in Poland remains unlikely, few are ruling out the possibility, as divisions within the ruling coalition become deeper. Despite ongoing bitter...
Turkey has withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention, which seeks to prevent violence against women, including domestic violence, and bring an end to legal impunity for...
Polish politics is dominated by the country’s largest party, Law and Justice (PiS). But short of a majority in parliament, it needs two smaller coalition partners...
A Polish law ostensibly aimed at curbing the power of major social networks to unilaterally remove content they see as problematic may not be what it at first seems. At...
Just as Poland calls for the protection of free speech, three Polish women face trial – and the risk of up to two years in prison – for blasphemy. A court in...
Markets are increasingly uneasy at Polish and Hungarian intransigence over a mechanism that will tie EU funding to respect for the rule of law, a row that threatens to...
Hungary and Poland find a way to block the EU’s new seven-year budget and Covid-19 recovery fund. The European Union is facing an almost unprecedented crisis after...
Jarosław Kaczyński’s love of cats is no secret. For years, Poles have been well aware that the man who leads the country’s largest and ruling party, Law and Justice...
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...
