Law and Justice
Refugee Resentment on Rise as Poland’s Poorest Squeezed by Cost-of-Living Crisis
On the one hand, over the past few years social security and tax contributions for one-person businesses like those run by Suska and most of his colleagues at the bazaar have increased by a few hundred euros monthly.
Democracy Digest: Poland Closer to Getting Hands on EU Recovery Cash
To get the law through, the ruling Law and Justice {PiS} even rejected some amendments proposed by MPs from the party of hardline Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro. On Wednesday night, it seemed the Justice Ministers' crowd was ready to let this one go in the name of, as they said, "a far-reaching compromise".
Democracy Digest: Cracks Emerge Between Central Europe’s Conservative Allies
So far, Ziobro has opposed any compromise with Brussels, but the new scenario discussed this week is that his party would submit amendments to a presidential draft law to dismantle the Chamber, which PiS would later accept.
Democracy Digest: Giving the V3 Sign to Orban
"I have always supported the V4 and I am very sorry that cheap Russian oil is more important to Hungarian politicians than Ukrainian blood. #SlavaUkraini," she tweeted.
The Czech defence minister added that with elections in Hungary imminent, "it is not right for me to take part in the campaign".
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A Whiff of Compromise in Warsaw’s Air
Morawiecki retorted that he was "not surprised by the level of emotion" demonstrated by Ziobro, given that the CJEU's rejection of Poland and Hungary's legal challenge to this new conditionality mechanism concerned an area of the justice minister's competency.
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Could Poland Throw the EU into Disarray or Is It an Empty Threat?
But Warsaw is flexing its muscles to lash out against the EU more generally. The PiS government has rejected the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on its reforms of the judiciary. And Warsaw refuses to pay the penalties imposed by the CJEU, which to date amount to over 130 million euros.
Democracy Digest: Poland Focuses on Pegasus and Putin
Tusk's announcement is important because it means the liberal opposition has received support from maverick politician Pawel Kukiz, whose four MPs are currently key to PiS maintaining its parliamentary majority. To support the opposition request, Kukiz has asked for the commission to have a broader remit, investigating surveillance under several governments, including Civic Platform ones.
Pegasus Spyware Scandal Escalates, Raising Pressure on Polish Government
Kwiatkowski said that the Audit Office had already pointed out in 2018 that the expenditure was illegal according to Polish law, because such purchases by the CBA should come from the state budget and face proper parliamentary scrutiny.
Abortion in Poland: A Year of Living Dangerously
The right-wing populist party dismissed appeals from EU institutions to reconsider the law and contained the subsequent mass street protests that engulfed the country, suffering only an initial drop in opinion polls before bouncing back. Enjoying the support of around 37 per cent of voters, PiS remains far ahead of the opposition in the polls.
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Democracy Digest: More Talk of an Axis of Rightists in the European Parliament
"Prime Minister Viktor Orban discussed the creation of a new European political grouping in a video conference with Matteo Salvini, leader of the Italian Lega party, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, vice-president of the Law and Justice party (PiS)," Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister's press chief, announced on Wednesday.