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EuropaUnión Europea

Tens of thousands of Poles took part in demonstrations last weekend to protest against the ruling Law and Justice party and what they view as its smear campaign against former President Lech Walesa.

Law and Justice has been accused of waging a “conservative revolution” in Poland by tightening control over key public institutions. Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize after he led the Solidarity union movement that defeated Poland’s communist regime in 1989, is an arch-nemesis of Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczynski.

The former electrician from Gdansk faces renewed allegations that he cooperated with the communist secret police in the 1970s before he co-founded Solidarity.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaUnión Europea,

On Sunday, Poland votes on a president.

Warsaw has long been as island of stability in an increasingly volatile Central and Eastern Europe. But this presidential race is exposing the cracks in the country’s ruling elite and paving the way for what could likely be more unexpected results in the autumn parliamentary elections.

The results of the first round of the presidential election came as a shock for the country’s ruling elite — and for all Europe. President Bronislaw Komorowski had been expected to win going away but he was suddenly confronting a tougher-than expected runoff. He had a week to persuade Poles to re-elect him as his party — and the European Union — begin to worry.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaUnión EuropeaDefensa y Seguridad, ,

The war in Ukraine has sent shock waves through Eastern Europe, and nowhere more so than in the Baltics. The Kremlin’s aggression since Russia’s annexation of Crimea has blurred the lines of the impossible. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all North Atlantic Treaty Organization member states, fear a Russian attack.

In tiny Lithuania the threat from Moscow feels so real that the country plans to reintroduce military conscription. Unlike Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania does not share a border with mainland Russia. To the south is Belarus, headed by Aleksander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s puppet dictator. The Russian army is bolstering its bases there.…  Seguir leyendo »