Clik here to view.
Poland and Commission plan crisis talks
Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s first vice president, plans telephone talks with Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydło on Tuesday in an effort to resolve a standoff between Brussels and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poles refuse to back down in confrontation with Commission
Poland on Tuesday dug in its heels in a standoff with the European Commission over the country’s constitutional crisis, with a Polish government delegation in Brussels taking a tougher line than just a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Commission ramps up pressure on Poland
The European Commission on Wednesday stepped up pressure on Poland to fall into line with the EU’s democratic principles, finding that the right-wing government hasn’t made enough progress in resolving...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Commissioner Jonathan Hill steps down
Jonathan Hill, the Commission’s financial services chief, resigned on Saturday, saying that the result of the Brexit referendum made it impossible for him to continue in his post. “As we move to a new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poland mourns Brexit
WARSAW — When Poland’s new government laid out its foreign policy priorities, there wasn’t much question who was the country’s leading EU partner. “In the first place, the United Kingdom,” Witold...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poland tries to end constitutional crisis ahead of NATO summit
WARSAW — Poland’s parliament on Thursday rushed through a law reforming the functioning of the top constitutional court in an effort to defuse an issue that has poisoned the country’s relations with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poland’s ‘powerholic’
ARSAW — Jarosław Kaczyński’s office is located on the first floor of a ramshackle building in central Warsaw. There’s a pool hall in the basement and a Japanese restaurant around the corner. The simple...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Obama gives worried allies a pep talk at NATO summit
WARSAW — NATO leaders took pains Friday to demonstrate common resolve at the outset of a two-day summit overshadowed by concerns over European unity and alliance divisions about how to counter Russia’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central and Eastern Europeans feel less like 2nd class NATO allies
WARSAW — NATO opened its doors to members from Central Europe in 1999, but the Alliance’s military footprint made only the tiniest of toeholds in the region. The headquarters of a multinational...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polish media veers back to pre-1989
WARSAW — The changes to Poland’s media landscape came to international attention at the weekend when unprecedented critical remarks by U.S. President Barack Obama about the state of its democracy were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poland’s constitutional crisis deepens after court verdict
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal ruled Thursday that a new law regulating its own functioning is in part unconstitutional — a decision that threatens to escalate its long-running row with the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Angela Merkel: Brexit could be ‘turning point’ for EU
Angela Merkel warned on Friday that Britain’s eventual departure from the European Union will have a significant impact on its future. “Brexit is a turning point in the history of European...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Communist land grab haunts Warsaw’s mayor
WARSAW — The mayor of Warsaw is halting the return of properties confiscated under Communist rule after a corruption scandal over the restitution process that has undermined her position. Hanna...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Store wars: Brussels in food fight with Eastern Europe
The European Commission has opened a new front in its deepening conflict with Central and Eastern European governments over restrictions on big foreign supermarkets. The battle became bloodier Monday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Polish reshuffle puts sights on prime minister
WARSAW — Beata Szydło, the Polish prime minister, on Wednesday fired the country’s finance minister, replacing him with Development Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who takes the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kaczyński casts doubt on a second term for EU’s Tusk
Donald Tusk may not be supported by the Polish government for a second term as president of the European Council, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party, told the Polska...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central Europe reins in right-wing revolutionaries
Jarosław Kaczyński and Viktor Orbán aren’t used to losing — but that’s just what the two Central European leaders have done over the last week. Both losses are the result of grass-roots organization,...
View ArticleWarsaw chastised over constitutional crisis
WARSAW — Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice government isn’t doing enough to end the long-running crisis over the country’s top constitutional court, according to an opinion issued Friday by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central Europe sees Trump as a kindred spirit
WARSAW â Donald Trumpâs unexpected victory in the U.S. presidential election proved to the nationalist and populist governments of Central Europe that they are out in front of a global political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI
Formally, JarosÅaw KaczyÅski is just one of 460 members of the Polish parliament. In reality, the former prime minister and current chairman of the ruling Law and Justice party is the most powerful...
View Article