The opposition’s new parliamentary majority elected a speaker but will have to wait longer to form a government.
Mateusz Morawiecki
President Duda gives ruling PiS party first chance to form new government
Although PiS won the elections, it lost its parliamentary majority and all other parties have ruled out working with it.
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There is no abortion ban in Poland, says Kaczyński. Women “can arrange abortions abroad”
The PiS chairman also discussed the government’s new economic programme and the prospects for his fraying coalition.
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.
Opposition politician leads Polish trust ranking for first time in two years
Rafał Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, has overtaken President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
PM “agreed to diktat of Brussels and Berlin” over EU budget, says Polish justice minister
Leaders of two of the three ruling coalition partners have said that early elections are possible.
Polish president and PM defend Covid relief fund manager after criticism by state TV
The dispute hints at cracks in the ruling coalition.
Salvini, Orbán and Morawiecki to meet amid rumours of new right-wing European group
“We have a chance to rethink Europe’s identity,” says Salvini.
Polish prime minister intervenes to get Poland’s star strikers exempted from quarantine
Robert Lewandowski and Krzysztof Piątek can play against England.
“Who do I call if I want to reach Poland?” Warsaw’s divided diplomacy is undermining foreign policy
Paweł Wiejski
Mismanagement and politicisation have left foreign diplomats unsure who speaks for Warsaw.
How has the EU budget dispute affected the power struggle within Poland’s governing camp?
Aleks Szczerbiak
Zbigniew Ziobro overplayed his hand, but it is too early to write him off.
Rule of law mechanism would be “fatal for EU”, Polish PM tells German newspaper
“That is how the Soviet system looked: fictional independence when in actual fact there was dependence, exploitation and neo-colonialism.”
Polish threats to block EU budget over rule of law are empty, say experts
Paweł Wiejski
The prime minister’s letter also points to divisions within the ruling coalition.
How will Jarosław Kaczyński joining the government affect Polish politics?
Aleks Szczerbiak
Is the PiS leader’s authority in the government coalition starting to wane?
