Nicholas Watson
The Reporting Democracy team discusses their newly released “Trends Report 2023: War in Ukraine Focuses Minds”.
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The VoiCEE podcast. Abortion laws in CEE: heartbeat rule in Budapest, an activist on trial in Warsaw
Agnieszka Wądołowska
“Attacks on reproductive rights in CEE are part of a global movement”
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European Court of Human Rights to consider if Poland discriminates against same-sex couples
Dorota Pudzianowska
A legal scholar explains the cases and their possible implications.
Poland celebrates EU budget success but confusion remains over rule-of-law conditionality
The final deal also dropped demands for Poland to sign up to climate goals in exchange for green transition funds.
Poland adds Latin to core curriculum to help pupils “understand foundation of Western civilisation”
A new subject, Latin and the culture of classical antiquity, will be taught from September.
Opposition to file protests at Supreme Court regarding presidential election following defeat
Trzaskowski’s party had also launched a website to help citizen’s lodge complaints.
Foreign correspondents in Poland condemn president’s attack on German journalist
Die Welt’s Warsaw correspondent has “received thousands of threatening messages” as a result.
Incumbent conservative Andrzej Duda re-elected as president of Poland
With results reported from 99.97% of districts, Duda has an unassailable lead.
Exit poll shows narrow election lead for incumbent Polish president but within margin of error
Given the narrow margin, nothing will be confirmed until official results are released.
Opposition presidential candidate rejects “staged” debate on Polish state TV
Poland may have no TV debate at all ahead of Sunday’s election
Polish president proposes constitutional ban on same-sex adoption, calling it “enslavement”
Andrzej Duda also wants a law to prevent “hostile ideologies” from entering schools.
President’s staff condemn “German intervention” in Polish election over paedophile pardon story
A partly German-owned Polish newspaper published further details of a child sex offender pardoned by the president.
The untouchable profession: how Poland’s miners carved out a special status for themselves
Jakub Wiech
What makes Poland’s mining lobby so strong?
Fact check: did Poland’s president “pardon a paedophile”, or is the story “fake news”?
Agnieszka Wądołowska
We explain this week’s controversy.
