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European Commission Pushes for a Media Freedom Act Meant to Protect Media Independence in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia
Addressing the worrying developments in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia, EU commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton announced his support for new EU-wide regulations meant to prevent media...
14-05-2021 12:37 -
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Courts Siding With Judges Harassed by the Ruling Camp Face Mounting Pressure from the Ministry of Justice
Following a decision by the District Court in Bydgoszcz, suspended judge Paweł Juszczyszyn has been reinstated to the bench. Meanwhile, by accusing the adjudicating panel of acting illegally and...
14-05-2021 09:17 -
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World's Largest Organization of Auschwitz Survivors Calls on the Polish Prime Minister to Reinstate the International Auschwitz Council [LETTER]
As survivors of the German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau we are highly concerned regarding the conflict within the current national and international bodies whose missions...
13-05-2021 11:46 -
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Local Journalist Fired After Ridiculing Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek in a Sarcastic Opinion Piece
A longtime journalist for the local daily "Nowiny" has been fired after writing a sarcastic piece ridiculing Daniel Obajtek, the CEO of the state-run oil company Orlen. The newspaper is one of 20...
12-05-2021 12:08 -
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Reporters Without Borders Calls For the Reinstatement of Four Editors-in-chief Sacked by Orlen
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the reinstatement of four editors-in-chief with the Polish regional media group Polska Press who were fired by the Polish state-controlled oil company that...
10-05-2021 19:20 -
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Study Finds Only 31 Percent of Poles Believe Their Country is Democratic
According to this year's Democracy Perception Index, an overwhelming majority of Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians declare satisfaction with the state of democracy in their respective countries....
10-05-2021 14:27 -
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Supreme Administrative Court Applies CJEU Ruling Challenging the Validity of PiS-Appointed Supreme Court Judges
Applying a CJEU ruling of March 2, Poland's Supreme Administrative Court overturned two resolutions of the politicized National Council of the Judiciary which pre-selected the Supreme Court...
07-05-2021 13:29 -
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Multiple Right-Wing and Government-Friendly NGOs Receive Public Grants From a Civil Society Development Fund
The National Freedom Institute announced the recipients of its civil society development grants. Top beneficiaries include right-wing NGOs with direct ties to government officials or those siding...
06-05-2021 16:15 -
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Human Rights Commissioner Adam Bodnar Warns of Poland's Authoritarian Drift. President Duda Calls Him "Anti-Polish"
After an interview with AFP in which the Human Rights Commissioner Adam Bodnar warned of Poland's anti-democratic drift, President Duda publicly accused him of being "Anti-Polish", raising doubts...
05-05-2021 15:46 -
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Viable, Diverse, Stable and Safe - Is This Really Too Much For Media to Ask? [HESLOP]
As we mark 3 May, World Press Freedom Day media across the globe are fighting threats both existential and immediate. The COVID-19 health pandemic has exacerbated, and in many instances accelerated...
03-05-2021 13:10 -
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Orlen's Media Takeover: The State Oil Giant Sacks Multiple Editors-in-Chief in One Go
- The mood is grim. I'm sure several people decide to leave- says a journalist working for "Dziennik Zachodni", one of the Polska Press dailies taken over by the state oil giant Orlen. On Thursday,...
30-04-2021 12:34 -
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Court Rejects Daniel Obajtek's Bid to Silence "Wyborcza"
The district court in Warsaw rejected a claim by Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek who sought to censor "Wyborcza" and prevent it from publishing investigative articles about his dubious real estate...
27-04-2021 16:12 -
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Judge Suspended for Implementing a CJEU Ruling Won a Case That Lets Him Return to the Bench. His Superior Refuses to Comply
The District Court in Bydgoszcz issued an interim measure allowing Paweł Juszczyszyn, a judge suspended by the politicized Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court for implementing a CJEU ruling, to...
26-04-2021 16:16 -
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Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court Denies the Use of Coercive Measures Against Judge Igor Tuleya
The politically-controlled Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court denied the request of the public prosecutor to detain the defiant judge Igor Tuleya, seeing no reasonable grounds to believe that...
23-04-2021 14:17 -
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Bart Staszewski, Polish Activist Behind the Campaign Challenging 'LGBT-Free Zones', Acquitted by a Local Court
The LGBTI+ activist Bart Staszewski has been acquitted by the District Court in the city of Mielec. As part of his country-wide campaign against homophobia, in October 2020, the activist installed a...
22-04-2021 12:53 -
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World Press Freedom Index: Poland and Hungary Hit a Record Low
For yet another consecutive year, Poland and Hungary have fallen in the World Press Freedom Index prepared by Reporters Without Borders, ranking 64th and 92nd respectively.
21-04-2021 14:00 -
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"Another Blow for Democracy in Poland": European Leaders React to Adam Bodnar's Removal from Office
The decision of Poland's politically-controlled Constitutional Tribunal to oust the independent Ombudsman has met with a critical response from leading European politicians and international human...
19-04-2021 14:12 -
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Adam Bodnar: "We are doing too little to save democracy in Poland" [EXCLUSIVE]
To the voters of the Law and Justice party, I would say that the independence of the Ombudsman office is important for everyone regardless of their political sympathies. Even if you feel relatively...
17-04-2021 12:44 -
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Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek Wants to Sue "Wyborcza" Into Silence
The lawyer representing the CEO of Orlen continues to swamp "Wyborcza" with lawsuits regarding our series of investigative articles about his client's dubious business practices and his murky past....
16-04-2021 14:56 -
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Poland's Constitutional Court Rules to Remove the Ombudsman Adam Bodnar from Office
Poland's politically compromised Constitutional Court has ruled a specific article of the Act on the Commissioner for Human Rights to be unconstitutional. In effect, the current Commissioner, Adam...
15-04-2021 13:10 -
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"I Treat it as a Delegation": Our Correspondent in Belarus Sends a Letter From Jail
In his letter from a Belarusian detention center, our correspondent Andrzej Poczobut writes that he was mentally prepared for such a scenario. Together with four other members of the independent...
14-04-2021 14:33 -
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The International Press Institute Welcomes Decision to Suspend Orlen's Takeover of Polska Press [STATEMENT]
The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the announcement that a Polish court has suspended the...
13-04-2021 13:45 -
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Warsaw District Court Blocks Orlen's Takeover of Polska Press
The District Court in Warsaw decided to suspend the antitrust authority's approval for the takeover of the German media group Polska Press by the Polish state-owned oil company Orlen. The court's...
13-04-2021 13:18 -
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Police Officer Recorded Assaulting a Young Woman With a Baton During an Anti-lockdown Protest
A local media outlet in Głogów, south-western Poland, published a video showing a policeman beating a young woman with a police baton and then knocking her to the ground. "This has been a...
13-04-2021 10:20 -
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Orbán, Salvini and Morawiecki Want "New" Europe. Putin Offers a Blueprint [OPINION]
On April 1st, Mateusz Morawiecki and Mateo Salvini convened with Viktor Orbán in Budapest to discuss their shared concerns and priorities concerning the European Union. While the meeting did not...
09-04-2021 13:25 -
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CJEU Receives Another Case Questioning the Legitimacy of Hundreds of PiS-Appointed Judges
Can a court whose judge has been appointed by the politically compromised National Council of the Judiciary still be considered independent? The answer to this question, posed recently to the CJEU by...
09-04-2021 13:17 -
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As Pandemic Rages On, Poland is Mired in Vaccine Chaos. Public Health Expert: "The Situation is Critical"
"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.
08-04-2021 17:23 -
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Under Cover of Covid, Poland is Stifling Free Media - And All Europe Should Be Worried [GARTON ASH]
A planned 'coronavirus tax' on revenues and attacks on foreign-owned media threaten to cut away democracy piece by piece. It is not just democracy in Poland that is at stake here; it is democracy in...
08-04-2021 10:41 -
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