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ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
The European Commission has attacked a Polish move to lower VAT on motor fuels to protect consumers from surging prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East.
CORRUPTION FROM THE CAPITALS
Polish President Karol Nawrocki told the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference in Texas that Russia is a regime that represents “corruption and violence”,…
CORRUPTION
The ruling Civic Coalition, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is attempting to extricate itself from scandals involving its officers who have been found guilty of paedophilia…
CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
The European Parliament has voted once again to strip the unaligned MEP and Polish right-wing party leader Grzegorz Braun of his parliamentary immunity.
EU BUBBLE TECH AND AI
Poland’s Left party, which is part of the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is proposing legislation to make Big Tech firms pay a new tax to generate…
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that flaws in a judge’s appointment does not automatically mean that the judge lacks independence to adjudicate cases in Poland.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
Polish President Karol Nawrocki and the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk have clashed over Poland’s head of state visiting Hungarian Prime Minister…
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
The largest Polish beneficiary on the list of projects to be funded from the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) programme is a private company led by a politician…
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
Poland’s top administrative court (NSA) ruled that the country's public authorities must recognise same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the European Union by entering…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The Polish minister for European Affairs in the last Conservative (PiS) government has said the growing hostility towards the European Union among the Polish Right could lead…
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his country will not be sending troops to the Middle East to assist the US in its military operations against Iran.
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
The centre-left Polish Government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk passed a resolution to proceed with accessing funds from the EU’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) loan…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
Poland’s opposition Conservatives (PiS) have submitted a resolution to the country’s parliament calling on the government to start the process of leaving the European…
CORRUPTION
Poland’s parliament has passed legislation to abolish the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) and transfer its powers to other agencies.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The Polish parliamentary majority that supports the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has passed a resolution paving the way for it to change the composition…
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
German drivers are crossing in their droves into western Poland to buy cheaper fuel at petrol stations, giving rise to local shortages and complaints from the Polish population.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Polish President Karol Nawrocki, in a televised address to the nation, announced he has vetoed legislation which would allow Poland to access a €44 billion loan from the…
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
Poland’s prosecutors have filed an indictment against a former government minister after his email in which he had kept government correspondence was hacked.
CORRUPTION IMMIGRATION
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into the Polish angle of a possible human trafficking scheme linked to the US financier Jeffrey Epstein.
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
Polish President Karol Nawrocki has submitted a bill to parliament that would enable Poland to avoid taking out a loan from the European Union’s Security Action for Europe…
CORRUPTION FROM THE CAPITALS
Grzegorz Braun, an MEP and leader of the right-wing Polish Crown party, visited the Iranian Embassy in Warsaw and signed the book of condolence for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s…
ELECTIONS
Poland’s largest opposition party, the Conservatives (PiS), unveiled the former education minister Przemysław Czarnek as its candidate for Prime Minister for the next parliamentary…
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
The US Undersecretary of War has said his country would “strenuously oppose” European nations such as Poland, Germany or the Scandinavian states from developing their…
EU BUBBLE INDUSTRIAL POLICY
Poland’s President and the head of the central bank have proposed a “sovereign, Polish” alternative to the government’s legislation to facilitate borrowing €44 billion…
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has entered talks with France over Poland being covered by the unfolding French nuclear umbrella.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Poland’s opposition Conservatives (PiS)-allied President Karol Nawrocki has said he was informed in advance of the US and Israeli attack against Iran.
EU BUBBLE US
Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has lamented that, in his opinion, relations between the US and Europe have deteriorated.
CORRUPTION FREE SPEECH
The head of a popular Polish YouTube current affairs channel has produced documented evidence that a publicly funded NGO has commissioned a PR operation aimed at smearing…
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The Polish opposition Conservatives (PiS) have called on the current US Republican administration to propose an attractive loan offer for the country to purchase US military…
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The Speaker of Poland's Parliament has promised to support Ukraine on its path to European Union membership.