Tag: PiS
ECJ ruling: EU may cut payments to Poland and Hungary – Politics
Hungary and Poland may face high financial losses because, according to the EU Commission, the rule of law is being undermined there. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has cleared…
EU rule of law mechanism: Poland and Hungary lose before the ECJ – politics
According to a ruling by the ECJ, the Commission can withhold money from member states that violate the principles of the rule of law. The two governments that are viewed…
Poland: suspected spying – politics
It was probably not just “fake news” – the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki initially wanted to ward off the suspicion that his government had spied on political opponents with…
Poland: Dispute over Gazeta Wyborcza: You don’t want to be tamed – media
from Florian Hassel, Warsaw It is not every day that the editors of the most important newspaper in a country and its publishing board publicly accuse themselves of greed or…
Polish law against independent TV channels could come into force – politics
Poland’s parliamentary speaker had already wished for a relaxing Christmas season when the ruling party PiS decided to quickly whip a controversial law through the Sejm. MPs received a text…
Poland makes serious accusations against Germany and demands compensation. – Politics
from Florian Hassel, Belgrade The posters that the artist Wojciech Korkuć had been in Warsaw for a few weeks under the title “Simple questions to a German state official” has…
Poland: Hate speech against the LGBT community in the Sejm – opinion
The ruling party PiS and other fanatics want to take legal action against homosexuals. Millions of Poles who don’t want to live and love like the fanatics have experienced another…
President Przylebska: PiS handyman at the constitutional court?
portrait Status: 20.10.2021 3:08 p.m. The President of the Constitutional Court of Poland, Przylebska, is best known in private with the PiS chairman Kaczynski. Unsurprisingly, critics complain that judgments in…
The conflict between Poland and the EU: should Europe show toughness? – Politics
The dispute over the right way to deal with Poland and the speculation about a “Polexit” put the European Union under considerable stress. Because Poland demonstratively no longer wants to…
Poland’s freedom of the press remains under threat – politics
It was a short sigh of relief when the majority of the Polish Senate voted against the PiS government’s controversial new broadcasting law on September 9th. Poland’s opposition, which dominates…