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...Beata Szydlo, a conservative Polish politician from the ECR group, complained of “words and empty promises”....
...Nominally just an MP, he handpicked Beata Szydlo and then Mateusz Morawiecki to be prime minister, and the big decisions about Poland are taken by him....
...Poland’s media has been ablaze for weeks with speculation over a cabinet reshuffle, as Law and Justice marks the half-way point of its four year term in office....
...Mr Kaczynski – who has no official government role but is widely seen as the most powerful figure in Polish politics – hinted earlier this year that there could be a cabinet reshuffle this autumn, which marks...
...Polish observers say Mr Tusk’s intervention marks his return to domestic politics....
...Mr Kaczynski kicked off the reshuffle before Christmas by promoting finance minister Mateusz Morawiecki to replace Beata Szydlo as prime minister, but the rest of the changes were postponed amid infighting...
...Mr Kaczynski began the reshuffle before Christmas by promoting Mateusz Morawiecki, the finance minister and a moderate figure within Law and Justice, to replace Beata Szydlo as prime minister....
...Friday’s votes — which came a day after Law and Justice nominated finance minister Mateusz Morawiecki to replace Beata Szydlo as prime minister — mark the resumption of a battle that began earlier this year...
...In September, Poland’s prime minister, Beata Szydlo, said that Poland “has the right” to claim reparations, a stance subsequently backed up by the parliamentary research office....
...Birthday Barnier The EU’s Brexit chief had a productive 67th birthday Tuesday meeting Dutch PM Mark Rutte and giving a speech in Brussels....
...Even if May is able to win this December battle, sidestepping Foster would put a big question mark over the withdrawal treaty itself....
...There was also concern over the threat of a leadership crisis hanging over celebrations this month in Rome to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc’s founding treaty....
...Beata Szydlo, the Law and Justice prime minister, in a televised address late on Saturday told the opposition that it was “never too late to reroute from the wrong road and take the path of dialogue”....
...After a terror attack on London, the mood will be sombre in Rome tomorrow when EU leaders gather for a special summit to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc’s founding treaty....
...Mrs Szydlo praised Mrs May for arranging “two very symbolic actions”....
...Meanwhile prime minister Beata Szydlo was given a hero’s welcome on her return to Warsaw by the rose-bearing figure of Jaroslaw Kaczynski....
...They mark an increasingly bitter stand-off between the Law and Justice government and opposition groups which accuse it of undermining democracy and free speech....
...It marks the first time the EU has accused a member state of potentially undermining democracy....
...The election marks a return to power for the veteran nationalist Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Law and Justice party (PiS) that could pose problems for the country’s European partners....
...Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, and eastern European countries have suggested Britain must reform its own benefit system but Mr Cameron has rejected compromise models that curbed benefit rights of...
...The Times has a stunning revelation on its front page today: Apparently there is a secret policy in Britain to mark out asylum seekers by the colour of their front door....
...The Greek debt crisis and fears of eurozone contagion are acting as a lightning rod for euroscepticism in Poland, where a general election this year is set to mark a shift to the right....
...La Repubblica, Italy’s main left-leaning daily newspaper, featured a front-page column by British historian Timothy Garton Ash, who warned ominously that the shock of a Brexit “could mark the beginning of...
...Brackets in the text mark most of them out: how long will an emergency brake on migrant benefits last, will treaty change be promised....
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