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Poland’s constitutional crisis goes international
WARSAW — Poland’s newly elected government brushed aside opposition complaints, large street demonstrations and rising international concern to push through legislation this week that could hobble the...
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Polish opposition challenges new law on constitutional court
Poland’s opposition Civic Platform party on Tuesday said it will file an appeal to the country’s highest constitutional court, asking it to rule on whether a new law that deeply changes the functioning...
View ArticleNew media law gives Polish government fuller control
WARSAW — Poland’s parliament on Wednesday adopted a new media law that gives the conservative government more latitude to control state-run television and radio. The law on “national media” is the...
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Polish conservative’s PR pushback
WARSAW — Poland’s new conservative government pushed a public relations counter-offensive this week, sending out its chief diplomat to rebut international criticism of its early moves. Witold...
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The man who hopes to unseat Poland’s new government
WARSAW — The resounding triumph of Law and Justice party in elections last year left the other mainstream parties in Poland reeling, opening the door for a charismatic but untested economist to lead...
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Poland strikes back at EU on media law
The Polish government responded strongly Friday to the European Commission’s concern about moves to exert greater control over public media, insisting Warsaw recognizes “the freedom and pluralism of...
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Poles protest new media law
WARSAW — Opponents of Poland’s new conservative government staged mass rallies in support of press freedom across the country on Saturday afternoon. The demonstrators — the third such protest since the...
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Report: Commission to probe Poland’s rule of law
The European Commission is set to launch an audit of Poland’s adherence to the rule of law this coming week, focusing on the government’s much-criticized crackdown on judicial independence. German...
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PiS partisans to Polish critics: Up yours
WARSAW — The new Polish government is getting a lot of bad press abroad and is coming under growing pressure at home — but this isn’t the place to hear those views. On Sunday, for the 69th month in a...
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Why Poland won’t be punished
Poland’s new right-wing government faces international demands to roll back radical changes to the country’s institutions, but the odds that it will suffer any serious punishment from Brussels are...
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Warsaw’s EU spat stalls German-Polish engine
Angela Merkel found herself in military uniform this week. Perched over a vast table of maps, the German leader appeared in full Nazi regalia alongside her trusted European generals, Jean-Claude...
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Warsaw puts on a friendlier foreign face
WARSAW — After a week in which Poland was hit with a European Commission probe over government actions on the constitutional court and had its sovereign debt rating downgraded by Standard & Poor’s,...
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Tusk and Duda try to calm ‘hotheads’ in Poland debate
Donald Tusk, the European Council president, said Monday he “wasn’t enthusiastic” about last week’s decision by the European Commission to open a probe into whether Poland is falling short of the EU’s...
View ArticleEuropol warns of more ISIL terror attacks
ISIL is planning more terror attacks in Europe targeted at “soft” targets with the goal of killing large numbers of civilians, Europol warned on Monday. “There is every reason to expect that IS, IS...
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Tusk to EU leaders: Here’s the deal
European Council President Donald Tusk Tuesday sent EU leaders proposed new terms for Britain’s membership in the bloc, kicking off an intense two-week effort to get them to agree to the reforms. The...
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Warsaw wants to BFF Cameron
WARSAW — David Cameron’s visit to Warsaw on Friday is about more than the British prime minister hunting for support ahead of a Brexit referendum. It’s also a way for Poland to show it still matters in...
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Cameron finds a ‘strategic partner’ in Poland
WARSAW — Poland is “very satisfied” with a deal cutting migrant benefits that is crucial to Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of a referendum on whether or not to leave the EU, Poland’s most powerful...
View ArticleCentral Europe wants to halt migration if EU plan fails
Central European countries want a “back-up plan” to block the flow of migrants from Greece in case other steps to fortify the EU’s borders fail, but during a summit in Prague on Monday they didn’t...
View ArticleWałęsa battles accusations of being communist informant
Lech Wałęsa, Poland’s legendary opposition leader, insisted Thursday that files showing he had been a paid informant of the communist secret services in the early 1970s were false. “There can be no...
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Poland’s ‘rule of law in danger’
WARSAW — Changes to Poland’s constitutional court pushed through by its new conservative government “endanger not only the rule of law, but also the functioning of the democratic system,” according to...
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