During the eight years of the Law and Justice (PiS) government, the Polish Army has been subject to constant politicisation. The effects became particularly manifest during the recent parliamentary election campaign, “blurring the line between party and State, contrary to OSCE commitments, as observed by the ODIHR/OSCE in their preliminary post-election report from Poland. A […]
Ireneusz Bil is director of the Aleksander Kwaśniewski Foundation Amicus Europae.
The mass protests in Belarus are unprecedented in the nation’s history. Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets regularly to protest against the falsification of the election results. Some still do. Not only the scale, but also the duration of the protests is surprising. Despite brutal interventions by the riot police, mass arrests […]
Had it happened, the election of the liberal Rafał Trzaskowski as president of Poland could have meant a turning point in several aspects. First, the demise of the illiberal power of the Law and Justice party (PiS) and of Jaroslaw Kaczynski personally. It would have been a slippery slope for them ahead the of next […]
The Law&Justice has been also extremely efficient in evoking fears and exploiting uncertainties, also among the undecided and the hesitant.