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Polish government unveils increased social spending and tax reform in pandemic recovery plan
The plan includes more subsidies for parents and support for aspiring homeowners, but also a greater tax burden on higher earners.
Polish city offers support to LGBT youth as part of equality month campaign
The initiative has prompted a backlash from the Catholic church.
“Pro-family coalition” launched by Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic
The Visegrad countries want to promote family policies at the local, national and EU level.
Government organised postal elections without legal basis, says Poland’s state auditor
NIK has already notified prosecutors of potential crimes.
Public opinion of Polish state TV falls to lowest ever level
For the first time, negative attitudes towards TVP outweigh positive ones.
Conservative group launches university in Poland to “forge elites for the entire region”
Two government ministers will attend the inauguration of the institution, which is closely linked to Ordo Iuris.
Polish PM: “ideological” Amnesty International “stopped defending freedom long ago”
Mateusz Morawiecki likened the NGO’s treatment of Alexei Navalny to its approach to his own father in the 1980s.
Poland’s opposition PO party requires “far-reaching changes”, warn group of MPs and former leader
Civic Platform will never win elections again unless it implements fundamental reform, say the lawmakers.
Poland’s constitutional court not a “tribunal established by law”, rules ECHR
The ruling is the first European judgement on the contentious issue.
We’ll keep supporting government because there’s “no better option”, says junior coalition partner
Amid talk of early elections, Zbigniew Ziobro warns that a government led by the opposition would be even worse.
Polish ruling party’s human rights nominee offers to let opposition pick his deputies to break deadlock
Ahead of a Senate vote on his candidacy, PiS MP Bartłomiej Wróblewski has offered a “compromise”.
Less than one third of Poles see their country as democratic, finds global survey
The Alliance of Democracies found that Poland has the largest “democratic deficit” among 53 countries.
