What was truly shocking about the recent US supreme court ruling which overturned Roe v Wade and took away the control millions of American women have over their bodies, was the dreadful sense of inevitable acceptance accompanying it.
In its third annual rule of law report, the European Commission urges Poland to ensure that the roles of the minister of justice and prosecutor general, currently exercised by Zbigniew Ziobro, are kept separate.
Justyna Wydrzy�ska, a Polish women's rights activist, is among the few known people in Europe to ever be charged with "aiding abortion" after providing a pregnant woman with abortion pills. The activist is facing up to 3 years in prison.
Poland's decision to disregard the ECHR rulings is a move taken directly from the Russian playbook. In both cases, the respective governments have used the constitutional court to override their international obligations.
On Thursday, the Polish Sejm passed a draft amendment to the country's Criminal Code. Legal experts, including the Commissioner for Human Rights, have criticized it for being "excessively repressive". Should the new bill become law, it would...
9 months after the warrantless seizure of a Wyborcza journalist's work laptop by the police, the device was finally returned to its owner. It remains unclear, however, whether authorities had access to confidential information found on the device...
A bombshell email leaked on Monday suggests that the PM's Chief of Staff met with the head of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal to ensure that specific cases be adjourned so as to help the ruling camp win parliamentary elections.
Just as it once did in Argentina, the pendulum has now swung in our country, too - the debate about abortion has ceased to be an ideological issue and has become a discussion about laws regulating access to medical services. The world is changing.
Last week, the leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party announced his decision to step down from government functions in order to concentrate on rallying up voters's support before next year's parliamentary elections. His campaign trail,...
Ever more people in Poland realize that a ban on abortions does not mean the end of abortions. Ever more people in Poland believe that medical services should be decided by medical standards alone. Ever more people in Poland believe that women know...
According to the Polish Border Guard, over 39,000 third-country nationals attempted to illegally enter Poland from Belarus last year. But the numbers don't add up. Did authorities mislead the public on purpose?
Handled right, a second great eastern enlargement would make the European Union not just bigger but also more self-sufficient in food, stronger militarily and with more potential for economic growth.
To avoid being unintentional targets of a Russian military attack, Western allies should strike down any missiles flying dangerously close to NATO's border.
Starting July 1, the Polish government will stop offering financial support to families hosting Ukrainian war refugees. Recent IBRiS polls have shown a majority of Polish citizens favor the decision.
Measures taken against judge Z?urek by Polish authorities had been aimed at intimidating him because of the views he had expressed in defense of the rule of law and judicial independence- the European Court of Human Rights found on Thursday.
President Duda could've pushed the ruling camp to make sure that the newly amended law on the Supreme Court is in full compliance with the rule of law "milestones" specified in the national recovery and resilience plan. Unfortunately, he didn't....
On Monday, Poland's President signed an amendment to the law on the Supreme Court that abolishes the contested Disciplinary Chamber for judges. Changing the judicial disciplinary regime is a necessary condition for Poland to unlock the long-delayed...
Krzysztof To�wi�ski, a former PiS MP and Deputy Minister of State Treasury, most recently associated with the radical right Confederation party, is seeking to register an openly pro-Russian political formation "Front". The man is notorious for using...
- I've already got used to the fact that members of the Polish government are constantly attacking me. It's because they disagree with what I stand for - Frans Timmermans, Executive VP of the European Commission, told Wyborcza in an interview.
On Tuesday, MEPs criticized Ursula von der Leyen for being too lenient with Poland's right-wing government. The rule of law conditions written into the Polish National Recovery Plan, they argued, are far too narrow and long overdue.
On Friday, Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski signed an amendment expanding the scope of information to be collected in the state medical database. The new data includes records on the patient's blood type, allergies, and, in the case of...
A hundred blood-soaked days of war have passed in Ukraine. Look, all of you on the ruins of Donbas, Kharkiv or even Kyiv, molested by a tribe of savages and don't doubt that it won't happen again and again, with other families and other children.
Some 2 million Polish households are at risk of losing access to commercial TV news broadcasting. Reason? The government's decision to introduce a new broadcasting standard that will affect all broadcasters except for the state-owned TVP.
During her Thursday visit to Warsaw, Ursula von der Leyen officially confirmed the Commission's endorsement of Poland's National Recovery Plan. The decision comes amid enduring concerns over Poland's still largely unresolved rule of law issues.
More than 50 Polish judges facing disciplinary proceedings for refusing to toe the party line have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister demanding that he apologize for his false claims about the wrongdoings allegedly committed by disciplined...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have much in common: They rule by intimidation, which leads them to make mind-boggling mistakes - Putin in Ukraine, and Xi with an unsustainable zero-COVID policy. But the deep flaws...
Warsaw might soon be forced to cut its current expenses and increase the costs of local public services, rating agencies warn. It is a direct result of the ruling camp's tax reform that heavily reduces municipal budgets.
During his Sunday speech at the Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, President Andrzej Duda said everything that should be said and done regarding Ukraine. For his vision to become reality, however, it is necessary to change the way Europe thinks about what...
Threatening to take "Wyborcza" to court, Piotr Woyciechowski, a close associate of the former Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz, demands the removal of an article in which Gazeta Wyborcza reported on a public testimony before the...
The Catholic Fundamentalist organization Ordo Iuris is sending inquiries to Polish hospitals in an effort to establish whether abortion rates in Poland have increased since the war in Ukraine. The aggressive abortion surveillance is aimed at one...
Sweden and Finland officially announced their bid to join the list of countries committed to coming to Poland's aid in case it is ever attacked. Admitting two new, strong members to NATO will give potential aggressors two more arguments against the...
For the third consecutive year, Poland has been ranked European Union's least LGBTQ-friendly country. In the context of the entire European continent, only Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan scored lower.
On Monday, "Wyborcza's" editor-in-chief Adam Michnik received the Gilel Storch Award, joining a list of distinguished previous laureates such as the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former German President Joachim Gauck, and...
Illegal waste imports are booming. Tens of thousands of tons of trash from Germany and other Western European countries are pilling up all across Poland. An investigation into one of such illegal landfills in a village near Pozna� revealed...
Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreyev did not lay flowers at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw, as he had planned, after protesters blocked the access to the monument. It did not end there - one of the participants in the anti war rally spilled...
There are a lot of things I find admirable about Poland and Polishness. Sure, yes, some aspects can be unappealing, especially if you are open-minded and inclusive, and yet it is hard not be charmed by those who have a sense of rootedness and place,...
Foreigners who wish to work in Poland or become Polish citizens are formally required to prove their language proficiency. It turns out, however, that the language itself is not the main problem. Thousands of people report being unable to even...
Discussing the state of Article 7 proceedings against Poland and Hungary, on Tuesday, MEPs argued that Poland's tremendous show of solidarity with the people of Ukraine should not be an excuse for the EU Commission to ignore the country's still...
More than 400 days have passed since "Wyborcza's" foreign correspondent Andrzej Poczobut had been arrested by the Belarusian regime. According to Mr. Poczobut's family, he has now been transferred to the Valadarka detention center in Minsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown us how far the dissolution of democratic institutions and the suffocation of the free press can go. Autocrats without public control exercised through independent media are more likely to resort to...
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