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Independent and informed news, insight and analysis on Polish current affairs, culture and history. Editors: @danieltilles1, @StanleySBill.
Sep 14, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
[Thread] PiS has presented its electoral program, titled 'The Polish Model of the Welfare State'. It promises to:
-'Continue ensuring Poland's high status in the international environment' and 'rejecting clientelism'
- Expand and modernise the armed...1/3 wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/wybory-pa… ...forces'
- 'Combat all manifestations of antiPolonism and falsification of our history, especially...[by] reminding the world that Poland was the victim of German and Soviet aggression...[and] has not yet been compensated'
- 'Counteract the crises of the EU', including...2/3
Feb 3, 2019 13 tweets 4 min read
Former mayor @RobertBiedron is today officially launching his new progressive political party at a convention in Warsaw with thousands reportedly in attendance.

Policies announced so far include ending reliance on coal, improved sex ed in schools and same-sex civil partnerships Biedroń's promise to end the privileged status of the church, including stopping state funding for it and Catholic cathecism classes in school, has just drawn huge cheers from the crowd