I call for the funds entirely due to Poland, which completed all the procedures required by the relevant regulation, to be mobilised under the Recovery and Resilience Facility and  stop using them to influence the Polish government. Such practices can only reinforce the narrative of distrust aimed at EU institutions and lead to further polarization in relations between Poland and the EU, as well as among Polish citizens itself. At the end of the day, it is the Polish citizens and entrepreneurs, who will lose the most…

The economies of Poland and the European Union are going through hard times. Since the beginning of March 2020, the world has been struggling with a pandemic, and in spite of a pronounced recovery in 2021, the new COVID-19 variants keep the global economy from healing completely. To boot, the pandemic is one of the sources of yet another problem that we have fallen victims to in recent months: soaring inflation…

Systemic transformation of our region began in a formal sense over three decades ago. Apart from the Polish general elections on 4th June or the wave of protests in the countries of the so-called people’s democracy, one of its most momentous events, was the fall of the Berlin Wall. It marked the beginning of the process of German reunification (following the German unification of the 19th century), which ended in October 1990. Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, although this did not mean the collapse of the Soviet, and later Russian sphere of influence…