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Police in Poland have stormed the nation’s presidential palace, still occupied by conservative Andrzej Duda. Cops took two ministers from the former Law and Justice (PiS) government to prison this week, despite the fact they had been awarded presidential pardons. New globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk, alongside the new Marshal (Speaker) of the Sejm (Legislature) Szymon Hołownia, have moved swiftly to persecute members of the former, right-wing government in moves similar to the Biden pursuit of Donald Trump.

European Council President Donald Tusk urged his fellow Poles on Monday to “come to their senses” over Poland’s place within the EU, saying it could otherwise end up following Britain’s example and tumble out of the bloc. Tusk, a centrist who served as Polish prime minister from 2007 to 2014, is a strong critic of the ruling euroskeptic Law and Justice party (PiS) in Warsaw, which has often clashed with Brussels over immigration, the rule of law and other issues. Tusk, who chairs EU summits, said that in 2016 Britain’s then-prime minister David Cameron had not intended to take his...

Brussels (AFP) - European Council President Donald Tusk on Sunday questioned whether tensions between Poland's rightwing government with Ukraine and the EU is a "Kremlin plan". "Alarm!" warned Tusk, a former liberal prime minister of Poland, on his personal Twitter account. "Intense dispute with Ukraine, isolation within the European Union, departure from the rule of law and judicial independence, attack on the non-governmental sector and free media - is this PiS strategy or the Kremlin's plan? Too similar to sleep peacefully," he said in Polish. The governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party is increasingly at odds with Brussels because...

Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden is most likely to be hiding either in a Pakistani city or somewhere in the mountains of Pakistan occupied Kashmir, claims Peter Bergen, a leading expert on terrorism. In a long article in Atlantic Monthly, Bergen said bin Laden could possibly be hiding "somewhere in the mountains of Pakistani Kashmir - an area that is off limits to outsiders and home to numerous Kashmiri militant groups, some of which are deeply intertwined with al Qaeda. Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM), for instance, shared training camps in Afghanistan with Al Qaeda in the late 1990s." Alternatively, said Bergen--who...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than 170 people around the globe, including at least 61 in the United States, have been arrested in a major operation targeting international child pornographers, officials said Friday.</p>

PiS wants legal action against German daily 06.07.2006 The parliamentary caucus of the ruling Law and Justice party wants the justice ministry to establish whether the author of an article in a German daily satirizing President Lech Kaczynski and his brother insulted the Polish head of state. A letter to this effect was sent by the caucus head Przemyslaw Gosiewski to the national prosecutors’s office. The article, which compared the President to a potato, appeared in Die Tageszeitung at the end of June. Gosiewski argues that its language suggests the author intended to show unjustified contempt for Poland’s president. At...

Polish conservatives win general election: exit polls WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's conservative Catholic Law and Justice (PiS) reaped the most votes in the country's general elections, with exit polls giving the party just over 28 percent of votes cast. Running a close second to PiS was the centre-right Civic Platform (PO), with around 26 percent, showed the exit polls, issued when voting ended at 8:00 pm (1800 GMT), showed. The ruling Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), whose reputation has been damaged by a series of corruption scandals and an inability to bring down Poland's high rate of joblessness, did better than...

Conservatives play welfare card in Polish election 2005-09-19 18:04 By Tomasz Janowski WARSAW, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Poland's conservatives, buoyed by increased support in opinion polls ahead of general elections on Sept. 25, accused the frontrunning centre-right Civic Platform party on Monday of caring only for the rich. The Law and Justice (PiS) party and the Civic Platform (PO), both rooted in the Solidarity movement, were heading for a landslide win over ruling leftists whose four years in power were marred by corruption scandals. Opinion polls show the left will struggle to pass the 5 percent threshold needed to enter...

Religa, Kaczynski Even in Poland’s Electoral Race (Angus Reid Global Scan) – Two candidates are tied in the early stages of the campaign to choose Poland’s new president, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpospolita. 23 per cent of respondents would vote for current senator Zbigniew Religa, while 23 per cent would support Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski. Religa—a cardiologist—was first elected to the Senate in 1993, earning new terms in 1997 and 2001. Last year, Religa founded the Centre (C) party. Kaczynski is a member of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and has served as the capital’s...

The party now favored to win parliamentary elections wants to make Poland a "cheap state," and has outlined an ambitious economic plan that it believes could pull GDP growth up to seven percent per year. Law and Justice (PiS), the current leader in both the parliamentary and presidential polls, has outlined its economic plan which, if realized, could save the Treasury billions, eliminate state involvement in over a thousand companies, and make setting up a business in Poland possible in just three days. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, PiS' economic point-man and current leader of the Parliamentary Treasury Commission, told the Polish-Swiss Chamber...

Fifteen years after the fall of communism, the party of former Communists may be purged, amid a wave of accusations of sleaze and deceit, from Poland's political scene. Two of the most powerful figures of the ruling Democratic Left Alliance have been forced from office in embarrassing public accountings over the past 18 months. The alliance, known as the SLD, saw public support bobble between 5 percent and 10 percent in opinion polls in the past couple of months, the worst showing of any governing party since 1990. It is an election-year comeuppance for the party that once touted its...