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If the Congress was slow to recognize the great crimes perpetrated nearly a century ago, one would hardly blame them: the Armenian genocide was scarcely acknowledged for 50 years. Another one of history’s great criminals, Adolf Hitler, used the mass killing’s anonymity to justify...
While PIS leaders are avowedly Euro-skeptic, Polish public opinion remains staunchly pro-European (not surprising, perhaps, given the $6 billion in subsidies Poles receive from the E.U. each year). Moreover, whatever the rhetoric about the dangers of capitalism, Poland's economy is booming, with gdp growth topping 6% last...
That appears to be a lot of people. The PIS looks poised for victory in Oct. 21 parliamentary elections, even though the last government it led collapsed just two months ago. The latest polls put the party a few points ahead of the opposition Civic Platform (PO), suggesting that it...
Part of the explanation for this is that Poland's new democracy is just 18 years old. Since 1989, successive governments have introduced economic and democratic reforms based on those that Western Europe took the better part of 60 years to absorb. The country is still plagued by double-digit...
That mistrust provides fertile ground for the Kaczynski brothers' conspiracy-minded brand of politics. Founded in 2001, PIS promised to rid Poland of what it calls the uklad, a supposed cabal of former communist officials and businessmen who they claim have controlled the country since 1989. Radek Sikorski, a former...