PiS calls on Poles to “help fight for the Poland of our dreams” by “reporting abuses of power”.
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Tusk wins UK award for “commitment to restoring democracy in Poland”
Tusk called on liberal democrats to “take up the fight in defence of our values and principles and also in defence of our borders and territory”.
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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.
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.
Poland’s human rights commissioner is “anti-Polish” for criticising own country, says president
Adam Bodnar warned that Poland is heading “in the direction of an undemocratic state”.
Poland has seen region’s fastest democratic decline, finds Freedom House
The NGO has called on the EU to take action.
Poland is world’s “most autocratizing country”, finds democracy index
Poland has fallen to 63rd place in V-Dem’s ranking.
Poland’s human rights commissioner on the state of democracy, LGBT protests and “dormant civic energy”
Agnieszka Wądołowska
An exclusive interview with Adam Bodnar as his five-year term comes to an end.
John Paul II’s political lexicon: seven lessons for today’s struggling democracies
George Weigel
The Polish pope’s biographer reflects on the centenary of his birth.
Poland no longer rated as full democracy in new Freedom House index
“If Poland continues on this course, it will join the hybrid regimes and autocracies,” warns Freedom House.
Kaczyński: coronavirus exposed “EU’s weakness” and Polish opposition “does not accept democracy”
The epidemic has highlighted “the importance of nation states”, says the ruling party’s leader.
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.
