Weekly Round-Up of Polish News Developments Poland this week has received, for once, much favourable coverage in the European and international press for the assistance extended by her government to a Belarusian athlete who refused to return home from the Olympic Games fearing for her...
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Weekly Round-Up of Polish News Developments Given her history it should come as no surprise that Poland is a country which takes its defence and national sovereignty seriously. This week the government announced the purchase of 250 of the most modern tanks from the U.S. in a move it said...
Weekly Round-Up of Polish News Developments This week Platforma Obywatelska’s great hope for a revival in its sagging political fortunes – the return to domestic politics of former Prime Minister Donald Tusk – became a reality. While Saturday’s formal return as acting leader...
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Morawiecki Government in Formal Minority in Sejm Following Further Fragmentation on the Right
Weekly Round-Up of Polish News Developments The past week saw the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość government’s numbers in the Sejm fall just below the halfway mark following the defection of three members to form their own parliamentary group. Jarosław Kaczyński had, in retrospect, well prepared...
The past week has seen the continuing fallout in Poland from the hacking of Chancellery Minister Michał Dworczyk’s private email account with the publication of alleged disclosures on the Telegram messenger application. While the alleged revelations – and ‘alleged’ they are, as hackers...