Poland

While it has been framed as a success, the EU budget deal represents an alarming blow to the European Commission’s power to uphold the rule of law.

From attacking social partners to women’s rights, Covid-19 has been a catalyst for Law and Justice’s autocratic tendencies.

Faced with looming mine closures and layoffs in aviation, Poland’s regions need to rethink their industrial strategy to secure their future.

This May’s presidential elections in Poland have been postponed for now but dilemmas remain in a political scene where cynicism permeates voter choices and perspectives.

Thirty years after Eastern European states began their transition out of socialism, the outcomes of the process are still contested.

PiS has led Poland on a course characterised by Euroscepticism and the erosion of democracy. Two issues will shape Poland’s future: energy policy and relations with Ukraine.

Green politics has long been part of Polish politics and, despite its ups and downs, it certainly has a future.

What will the coming months and years bring for the Polish political scene?

Political differences between Germany and Central Europe cannot continue to be skirted if the EU is to effectively respond to the many challenges ahead.

In Poland the incumbent right-wing Law and Justice party, backed by the Catholic Church, demonised LGBT organisations in its recent successful electoral campaign. Adam Ostolski spoke to feminist activist and scholar Agnieszka Graff about why gender politics have become central to Polish politics, taking a step back to analyse how the Right’s scapegoating of gender is a response to the same set of social issues that the Left attributes to neoliberalism.