Aleks Szczerbiak
The government managed to emerge relatively unscathed politically from its most serious “stress test” yet.
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Poland’s Tusk government is not so different from its PiS predecessor [Opinion]
Krzysztof Mularczyk
In many areas – such as social, economic, defence and migration policy – it differs very little in style and substance.
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