On June 13, the European Commission filed a lawsuit against Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, accusing them of violating European Union law by refusing to admit refugees.The next day, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo gave a speech at the site of the Auschwitz death camp t

Until his recent bungled attempt to block Donald Tusk’s reelection as European Council president, Poland’s de facto leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, may have appeared to many European Union leaders to be a politician in the vein of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán or some Western

European Union leaders are set to announce their choice for president of the European Council at a summit on March 9.Until very recently, the reelection of the incumbent, former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, seemed certain: the outgoing French president, François Hollande, f

Antagonism is mounting between today’s right-wing populists and a somewhat unexpected but formidable opponent: women.In the United States, much like in Poland, women’s rights have been among the first targets of attack by populist leaders.Women are not taking it lying down.Tradit

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s de facto leader, has become, next to Donald Trump, an avatar of the populist threat to the Western democratic model.As we await Trump’s inauguration as US president on January 20, it is worth pondering the first year of populist rule in Poland.