- I put a lot of hope in the rejuvenation of the Weimar Triangle. I've been very much in favor of this format since its very origin in the early nineties, and I think this is now a new occasion to get it back on track - says Christoph Heusgen,...
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Despite many concerns regarding its unconstitutional character, on Wednesday, President Andrzej Duda signed the contentious "lex Tusk" bill into law. Days earlier, the European Council's Venice Commission issued an urgent opinion in which it argued...
VisiCalc, pierwszy komputerowy arkusz kalkulacyjny, w 1979 r. zlikwidował 400 tys. posad w księgowości, ale stworzył 600 tys. nowych. To może ChatGPT też nie taki straszny?
Pro-government media in Poland are facing severe backlash after the suicide of an opposition MP's teenage son. Because of their careless coverage, the 15-year-old boy was publicly identified as the victim of sexual abuse.
President Biden's visit to Warsaw coincides with a high-stakes election year for Poland. The ruling camp sees this as a huge opportunity to convince its electorate that a Poland led by PiS has finally "risen from its knees" to become an important...
Analityk Polskiego Instytutu Ekonomicznego: Bitcoin to pieniądz? To spróbuj zapłacić nim podatek. Kryptowaluty mają więcej wspólnego z hazardem i zdrapkami niż z walutą czy inwestycją.
Mastodon zamiast Twittera, PeerTube zamiast YouTube'a, Pixelfed zamiast Instagrama i Lemmy zamiast Reddita. Taka alternatywna sieć nie ma jednego punktu, gdzie ten czy inny regulator albo reżim może przyłożyć dźwignię.
To rodzaj aktywizmu, którego nam dziś brakuje: zamiast mówienia, jak jest źle, pokazujmy, co zamiast
"If the sense of guilt and responsibility for World War II should oblige Germans to do anything today, it is first and foremost to commit themselves unequivocally and fully to stand on the side of Ukraine in the fight against the aggressor, and to...
Taking cues from the playbook of the American right, Poland's most notorious catholic fundamentalist organization Ordo Iuris has recently issued a guide instructing parents on how to "protect" their children from being "groomed" by LGBTQ advocates...
Uważam, że mam najlepszą pracę na świecie. Pozwala mi na towarzyszenie zupełnie obcym osobom na istotnym odcinku ich życiowej drogi, a to bardzo intymne doświadczenie. Rozmowa z Anją Franczak, profesjonalną towarzyszką w żałobie
Last week, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party announced his decision to step down from government functions in order to concentrate on rallying up voters's support before next year's parliamentary elections. His campaign trail,...
During her Thursday visit to Warsaw, Ursula von der Leyen officially confirmed the Commission's endorsement of Poland's National Recovery Plan. The decision comes amid enduring concerns over Poland's still largely unresolved rule of law issues.
Threatening to take "Wyborcza" to court, Piotr Woyciechowski, a close associate of the former Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz, demands the removal of an article in which Gazeta Wyborcza reported on a public testimony before the...
The Council of Europe's Committee of Experts on Regional and Minority Languages has expressed its concern regarding the recent decision of Poland's education minister to reduce by two thirds the number of German language classes taught to children...
Sytuacja wolnych mediów w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej jest coraz gorsza. O tym, z czym na co dzień zmagają się krytyczni wobec władzy dziennikarze w Polsce, Rosji i na Węgrzech oraz co dla przyszłości zachodniej demokracji oznacza wznosząca się fala...
On Friday, the Polish parliament has suddenly passed a contentious media ownership law seen as another step in the Law and Justice's efforts to tighten its grip on outlets that refuse to follow the party line. But what exactly is in the new media...
A long-time foreign correspondent for "Gazeta Wyborcza" and leading member of the Union of Poles in Belarus Andrzej Poczobut has been awarded Poland's most prestigious journalistic prize. He was arrested by Lukashenko's regime in March and remains...
On Saturday, November 6, thousands of protesters all over Poland took to the streets to pay tribute to the 30-year-old Izabela who died of a septic shock after being denied access to abortion. The young woman's tragic death reignited a discussion...
The reactions of US officials leave no doubt - by pushing to ban American companies from Poland's broadcasting market, the Law and Justice government is setting the country on a head-on collision course with its key strategic ally and second-largest...
An art installation composed of protest signs from the Women's Strike marches has been taken off the museum's exhibition program for being too "politically charged". The artwork was supposed to be part of an exhibition opening this year's edition of...
CJEU Advocate General Michal Bobek has issued an opinion regarding specific legal provisions allowing the Polish Minister of Justice to second judges from one court to another and dismiss them at will. The practice, he argues, is incompatible with...
"As of today, we don't even how many people have been vaccinated in individual counties" - says Dr. Paweł Grzesiowski, an expert of the Supreme Medical Council for COVID-19.
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that any successive amendments to the Polish Law on the National Council of the Judiciary effectively undermining judicial oversight of the Law and Justice (PIS) government's appointments...
It is difficult to overstate the scale of the assault on media freedom by the ruling camp in 2020. Over the last year, we have witnessed increased activity aimed at intimidating news outlets and journalists critical of the government, further...
The year 2020 in Poland will be remembered as the period of sharp confrontations between the authoritarian regime built by the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), on one side, and the civil society, LGBT+ minorities, independent judges, and...
This year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the local government in Poland. For many political scientists and activists, its establishment and development over the last three decades is considered to be the highest accomplishment...
Under the new U.S. - Poland enhanced defense cooperation agreement, Poland commits itself to providing military infrastructure capable of hosting some 12.000 soldiers. Additionally, American troops will be granted privileges like tax exemptions, but...
What appears to be strategic appeasement of Poland and Hungary, necessary to break the negotiation impasse, makes it difficult to talk about a win-win situation. If left unaltered, the relative lack of clarity about the rule-of-law mechanism could...
Likely to emerge as the king-maker in Poland's presidential election, the neoliberal far-right might just have found its way into the political mainstream.
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