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The ruling party in Poland aims to consolidate its core constituency and convince the unconvinced. Thus, the Law and Justice (PiS) Party is portraying itself as a party in the countryside. A [...]

November 11th marked the 101th anniversary of the restoration of Polish sovereignty from the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. The most famous event of the day is the Independence [...]

– On June 5th, a district court in Warsaw launched anti-censorship proceedings against Facebook. The case was issued by Maciej Świrski, chairman of the Polish League Against Defamation [...]

– 30 years ago, on April 5th, 1989 round table negotiations ended in Poland with the signing of an agreement between the communists and representatives of the democratic opposition and Catholic [...]

When the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, now the Republic of North Macedonia, declared independence in 1991, a new state emerged but kept many of the habits of its communist past, [...]

– On March 3rd, hundreds of protesters gathered in Gdynia, Katowice, Łódź, Warsaw, and Wrocław in support of women’s rights such as equal pay and the right to an abortion. Protesters displayed [...]