Aleks Szczerbiak
Poland’s ideologically diverse new ruling coalition is prioritising “settling accounts” with its right-wing predecessor and elite replacement.
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Right aims, wrong methods: public media takeover shows dangers for new Polish government
Stanley Bill
Captured public institutions must be repaired without resorting to the same dubious methods that degraded them.
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Amid another epidemic 60 years ago, a Polish scientist created the world’s first polio vaccine
Magdalena Kozela
Saturday marks the seventh anniversary of the death of Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist.
NfP podcast: elections, epidemic, and the end of PiS’s coalition?
We discuss the controversy over the presidential election and the possible collapse of the ruling coalition.
As lockdown pushes education online, Poland’s digitally excluded children are being left behind
Barbara Erling
Some teachers are unprepared and some students are under-equipped.
“The courts are destroyed for at least 20 years”: Poland’s Supreme Court chief looks back on her term
Maria Wilczek
In an exclusive interview, Poland’s top justice Małgorzata Gersdorf discusses how Poland’s courts can be fixed.
How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting Polish politics?
Aleks Szczerbiak
The government’s ratings are up, while debate rages over holding presidential elections.
Poland to use €1.3 billion arbitration win from Gazprom to wean itself off Russian gas
Wojciech Kość
Poland has taken big steps to diversify its gas supplies by 2023, but Russia is unlikely to let go easily.
Pandemic forces international students in Poland to make tough decisions
Percy Metcalfe
Whether to stay or go home is one of many questions faced by the international academic community.
Like Hungary, Poland has used the coronavirus to undermine democracy
Bartosz Węglarczyk
Passing changes to the electoral code in the middle of the night damages Polish democracy.
Five questions about the implications of postponing Poland’s presidential elections
Piotr Trudnowski
Doing so would raise a number of difficult legal questions and have big political consequences.
NfP podcast: Poland’s economic success leaves it well placed to survive coronavirus crisis
Stanley Bill talks to economist Marcin Piątkowski about Poland’s extraordinary post-1989 growth amid coronavirus uncertainty.
Forgotten lands? Remembering flight and expulsion in Poland’s former German territories
Marcel Krueger
Civil society groups are helping local communities to engage with their own and the German history.
Poland cannot hold free and fair elections during the coronavirus crisis. They should be postponed
Daniel Tilles
Holding elections would risk both public health and the health of democracy.
