S&P announced its decision on Friday evening, November 6, after financial markets had closed. The agency affirmed Poland’s long-term foreign-currency credit rating at A-, but changed its outlook from stable to negative. At the same time, it downgraded Poland’s local-currency rating from A to A-, bringing it in line with the foreign-currency rating. The short-term local-currency rating was...
Senator Gabriela Morawska-Stanecka, a former deputy speaker of Poland’s Senate, has suggested that publishing a photograph of Anna Korwin-Piotrowska alongside Sejm Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty could lead to legal consequences. She claims the image is being used to spread disinformation and imply political collusion. But the real dispute concerns something far more serious: the legality of actions taken at...
Kyiv is rejecting any permanent restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products entering the EU market. Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi has made it clear that Ukraine may accept a transitional period, but permanent restrictions would contradict the logic of full EU membership. Kyiv ultimately wants to sell in Europe not only grain, but also feed, ingredients, processed products and...
In his online program, Tucker Carlson spoke with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, a British Conservative politician, former government minister, and longtime member of Parliament. Their conversation touched on deterrence, Britain’s security, and the war in Ukraine. At one point, Carlson began questioning the rationale behind Britain’s involvement in World War II. In doing so, he referred to Germany’s territorial...
Calling the independent Kanał Zero a “political party” by Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz reveals the government’s helplessness and the deep crisis of Polish democracy, in which simply holding those in power accountable is treated as hostile opposition activity. It is worth listening to Miłosz Lodowski’s podcast! What did Sienkiewicz say about Stanowski, and what did they “fail to do”? Bartłomiej...
A government bill on restrictive measures is intended to create an armor protecting Poland from hybrid attacks from the East, but by ignoring the National Broadcasting Council and giving tax officials the power to assess media content, it risks turning the fight against disinformation into outright censorship. “Sanctions Constitution” and Its GoalsThe Council of Ministers has adopted a...
A tragic knife attack in Jarosław, in which a Ukrainian citizen fatally wounded a priest and injured four other people, has shocked the public, prompting calls for the perpetrator to be punished to the fullest extent of the law as well as warnings against the political exploitation of the crime. According to witnesses, the late priest Stanisław Zbojnowicz...
In the face of real hybrid threats from Russia, deliberately fueling public panic through a nonexistent written “secret CIA report” has become a dangerous game. Instead of strengthening Poland’s security, it - whether consciously or not - serves the Kremlin’s psychological objectives. Whatever one may think of Donald Trump, he is the only one who has thrown a...
A civil lawsuit over the protection of personal rights, brought by Karol Nawrocki against the publisher of the Onet news portal, has begun before the Warsaw Regional Court. Yet events that unfolded during the very first days of the trial have already been astonishing. At the court hearing, key witnesses called by the defense - Onet journalists Magdalena...
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski’s remarks about NATO defeating Russia "in a matter of weeks" triggered a sharp reaction from Moscow and sparked a debate in Poland and the West over the limits of deterrence rhetoric and Warsaw’s actual role in the peace process. For now, Warsaw increasingly appears to be acting as an envoy for war, while...
