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“Wolne media!”: Cracovians protest new government press controls

January 12, 2016January 15, 2016 Krakow Post 27 Comments

As many as 2,000 gathered around the Radio Krakow building to protest recent moves by the PiS-led government to place the media under greater state control.

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PiS leader Kaczynski meets with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban: What does it mean?

January 11, 2016 Giuseppe Sedia 9 Comments

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban travelled to Poland last Wednesday at the personal invitation of Jarosław Kaczynski, the leader of the

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Anti-government protests held across Poland

December 20, 2015March 16, 2016 Krakow Post 16 Comments

Thousands took to Krakow’s Rynek Główny yesterday as part of a series of protests against the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party.

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Polish judicial system gets “orbanized”

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 Giuseppe Sedia 12 Comments

The lighting quick push for reform by the Law and Justice party (PiS) after eight years of center-right rule has taken a heavy toll on the judicial system in Poland during the past week.

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Bull on the Page: Keep Calm. And Don’t Take the PiS.

November 12, 2015 Mike Doherty 5 Comments

Today will see the newly victorious conservative PiS government take office. Now what? Our correspondent surveys the political landscape.

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Conservative PiS sweeps to power in historic landslide: 2015 election

October 25, 2015October 30, 2015 Krakow Post 4 Comments

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz ousted; far left takes a beating. (Full chart inside)

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2015 Polish parliamentary elections: What you should know

October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 Danielle Forest 1 Comment

New President Andrzej Duda’s conservative PiS, the minority party for 8 years, is favored in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. What does it mean for Poland?

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The Cult of Kukiz

September 7, 2015September 7, 2015 Danielle Forest 0 Comments

The outsider entertainer-turned-politician shocked Poland when he won 3rd place in the 2015 presidential election. Here’s why Paweł Kukiz isn’t going away.

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August in Poland: Foreign Fighters in the Polish Resistance

August 14, 2015August 28, 2015 Michal Karski 27 Comments

Several hundred foreign nationals are estimated to have fought for the Polish cause in WWII. Nigerian jazz drummer August Browne was one of them.

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Point / Counterpoint: How worried should Poland be about Russia?

March 19, 2015December 21, 2015 Krakow Post 9 Comments

The Krakow Post’s Anthony Casey and Steven Hoffman debate the threat Vladimir Putin’s international policies might pose to Poland.

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