How has the PiS changed Poland?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks0In the autumn of 2016 Poland's national-conservative PiS government has been in power for one year. Under its leadership a series of laws reforming state institutions have been passed and the EU has launched legal proceedings against the country. Taking stock of the PiS government's performance over the past year, commentators are as divided as the country itself.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Battle over abortion law heats up in Catholic Poland http://www.europeansources.info/record/battle-over-abortion-law-heats-up-in-catholic-poland/

ESO: Background information: Polish prosecutors open investigation of head of top court http://www.europeansources.info/record/polish-prosecutors-open-investigation-of-head-of-top-court/

ESO: Background information: Rule of Law: Commission issues recommendation to Poland, July 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/rule-of-law-commission-issues-recommendation-to-poland/

Blog: Polish Politics Blog, 09.08.16: Has Polish President Andrzej Duda’s first year been a success? https://polishpoliticsblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/has-polish-president-andrzej-dudas-first-year-been-a-success/

Radio Poland, 21.10.16: President Duda: democracy in Poland is doing well http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/276399,President-Duda-democracy-in-Poland-is-doing-well

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