Why Poland doesn’t want refugees
WARSAW — The right-wing Polish government is under pressure from the EU to finally begin accepting asylum seekers. But it’s the country’s leading opposition party that’s paying the political price....
View ArticleTusk slams Polish PM for Auschwitz comments
European Council President Donald Tusk admonished Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło on Wednesday for using the Holocaust to defend her government’s anti-immigration stance. Szydło earlier on Wednesday...
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Polish president bucks ruling party over judicial reforms
In a rare display of political defiance, Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday bucked his political patron Jarosław Kaczyński by moving to slow an effort to bring the judiciary under government...
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Brussels warns Poland over judicial reforms
The European Commission threatened Wednesday to launch a sanction procedure against Poland, putting Warsaw on a path that could ultimately see it stripped of its EU voting rights. The warning was a...
View ArticleProtests in Warsaw as government moves on courts
WARSAW — Bogdan Klich looked on as hundreds of protesters confronted a long line of impassive police officers ringing the Polish parliament. It was early Friday morning, not long after midnight, and...
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Macron tries to isolate Poland in French regional offensive
Emmanuel Macron isn’t going to Warsaw or meeting with Polish officials during this week’s trip to Central Europe, but Poland is a key part of why the French president is on the road. As an increasingly...
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Zbigniew Ziobro
As Poland’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro is in charge of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party’s most important political effort: the overhaul of what the party describes as a corrupt and...
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Poland won’t back down
WARSAW — If the European Commission thought Poland would back down in the wake of its decision to trigger the Article 7 process that could ultimately lead to Warsaw losing EU voting rights, it was dead...
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Rogue nation summit in Warsaw
WARSAW — There’s a rule of thumb about Polish-British summits: The more the two sides talk about bygone wartime heroics, the less the meeting matters. “As part of the allied coalition against the Axis...
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Euro push in Poland pitched as peace offering with EU
WARSAW — Poland’s relations with the European Commission are terrible. And that’s exactly why a group of economists and the country’s leading business paper this week launched a push for the country to...
View ArticlePolish reshuffle removes controversial ministers
Poland’s new prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, put his stamp on the government Tuesday in a wide-ranging Cabinet reshuffle that saw many of the country’s most controversial ministers lose their jobs....
View ArticlePoland and EU insist they’re on the mend
Same Poland, new packaging. A Tuesday dinner at the European Commission between new Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker along with a deep reshuffle of...
View ArticlePolish-Israeli spat over Holocaust guilt
WARSAW — An effort by the Polish parliament to ensure Poland isn’t tarred with responsibility for helping Germany commit the Holocaust during World War II exploded into a Polish-Israeli war of words...
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One family’s story shows Poland’s ambiguous wartime past
During World War II, my grandfather tried to save the lives of two Polish Jews but failed. The death of Reich (we don’t know his first name) and his 10-year-old son Abraham — and my grandfather’s...
View ArticlePoland’s ruling party beats a retreat on ministerial bonuses
Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party agreed Thursday that ministers and other top officials must give controversial financial bonuses they paid themselves to charity. Jarosław Kaczyński, the...
View ArticleIrish court must decide if Polish judicial system allows a fair trial
A suspected drug dealer will have to prove that Poland’s judicial system is so flawed that he will not be able to get a fair trial if he is extradited from Ireland to his home country, an advocate...
View ArticlePolish Supreme Court turns to ECJ for help
Poland’s Supreme Court on Thursday suspended the application of a law forcing the early retirement of older judges and turned to the European Court of Justice to rule on whether recent changes to the...
View ArticlePoland suspended from EU judicial organization
Poland was suspended from the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary on Monday because the body that nominates the country’s judges is no longer seen as being independent of political control....
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European court orders Poland to freeze judicial changes
WARSAW — The Polish government was ordered to “immediately” suspend changes to the country’s Supreme Court by the European Court of Justice on Friday. The ruling — issued just two days before local...
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Poland’s ruling party wins local polls, but opposition claims victory
WARSAW — Polish voters sent a warning to Poland’s rulers in the first electoral test in three years. Local elections on Sunday saw the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party win nationally, according...
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