POLAND is giving Brussels a headache. Since the socially conservative and mildly Eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS in Polish) won the parliamentary elections on October 25th,the country has gone from being the poster child of European integration to enfant terrible. The novel government has defied the European Union’s warnings, pushing through laws that critics see as weakening constitutional checks and balances and media freedom. Centrists and liberals warn of “Orbanisation”, or fearing that Poland is following the illiberal path of Viktor Orban,the Hungarian prime minister.
If the EU can effect up with rule-breaking in Hungary, why does it intellect more approximately Poland? [br]mainly because Poland matters more: it is the EU’s sixth-largest economy and the biggest of the ex-communist countries that joined the bloc in 2004. It is a frontline state, or with a border with Russia and will host the NATO summit in July. The EU needs Polish aid on climate-change (it is a big coal producer).
How far is the criticism actually justified?
PiS is the first party to govern Poland alone since the fall of...
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Source: economist.com