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...The Polish government, presently led by the rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS), used a special fund for emergency expenditure to help finance the purchases....
...Republika’s new main anchor is Michał Rachoń, who became Tusk’s nemesis while working at TVP....
...Michal Wiezik, an ecologist and MEP from the opposition party Progressive Slovakia, told the FT the law change pushed by Taraba was “total madness” and a ploy to win support ahead of the vote....
...Last autumn, Michal Šimečka, a Slovakian politician, lost an election after a fake recording of him went viral. That is ominous ahead of the 2024 US election....
...But Tusk sticking to a policy introduced by the nationalist, Eurosceptic government led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party stands in contrast to his pledge when he took office last month to put Poland back...
...“Hołownia really had to learn on the job,” said Michał Baranowski, director of the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund think-tank....
...The extended use of pretrial detention has turned Poland into an outlier in the way it fights white-collar crime, warned Michał Rams, who runs the legal compliance practice of PwC in Poland....
...“We believe the outgoing government should now not be nominating high-profile officials, especially not somebody who is in charge of the financial supervision of this country,” Michał Kobosko, deputy leader...
...Tusk is in effect sailing uncharted waters, says Michał Baranowski, who heads the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund think-tank....
...“PiS creates and builds up the impression of successive external and internal threats that are fictitious,” said Michał Kobosko, vice-president of Polska 2050, one of the smaller opposition parties....
...Michał Kobosko, a politician from the opposition Polska 2050 party, wrote on Twitter that Duda’s amendments showed that “pressure makes sense”....
...Context: The commission can launch infringement proceedings against any member state that is not upholding EU law as part of its role as “guardian of the Treaties”....
...“Germany is clearly a target of this campaign,” said Michał Baranowski, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Warsaw. “Link Tusk with Germany and then attack Germany....
...Agrounia’s leader, Michał Kołodziejczak, said the grain crisis showed that farmers needed a direct say in politics. “PiS are false defenders of the Polish countryside,” Kołodziejczak said....
...His friend Michal Khaimov said she was worried about what the proposed changes would enable....
...“Building a national and regional multi-energy champion is absolutely reasonable and matches perfectly the timing of Poland gaining critical importance in global geopolitics,” says Michał Piekarski, the...
...[PiS] accused the EU institutions of bias and double standards, acting illegitimately beyond their legal competencies, and using the “rule of law” issue as a pretext to victimise Law and Justice because...
...“This narrative used against Tusk has put the opposition in quite an uncomfortable place, as we saw with the reparations,” says Michał Baranowski, director of the German Marshall Fund’s office in Warsaw....
...Dmitri Evseev, a partner at law firm Arnold & Porter, agreed that the legal action “may have a chilling effect, undoubtedly, on all kinds of policy change”....
...The struggle has raised broader fears over Poland’s respect for EU law....
...EU governments have closed ranks behind Poland, despite strained relations over its rule of law breaches....
...Michal Dworczyk, the top aide to Morawiecki, admitted last week that some information was stolen from mailboxes and social media accounts belonging to him and his family....
...This may also better promote a sense of civic duty in those who actually hold the levers of (economic) power.” — Michal Hain, London, England...
...“Big international companies are very important to our canton,” said Sven Michal, secretary-general of the Basel-Stadt finance department....
...Ryan of ICCL also pointed to an opinion last month from the European Court of Justice’s advocate-general Michal Bobek, who said member states should be able to sidestep lead authorities and directly enforce...
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