Polish right goes left on health
WARSAW — Don’t call it socialism, but Poland’s new right-wing government is looking left as it revamps its health care system. The Law and Justice (PiS) government says it will put a halt to planned...
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Poland turns history into diplomatic weapon
WARSAW — In a campaign to give a better gloss to Poland’s history, President Andrzej Duda launched what he calls an “offensive,” and the first target is U.S.-Polish Holocaust historian Jan Gross. Duda...
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Hipster behind Poland’s anti-government resistance
WARSAW — Jarosław Kaczyński, Poland’s most powerful politician, doesn’t spend much time needling the country’s fractured opposition parties. Instead, he goes out of his way to attack a movement led by...
View ArticleTraining Britain’s doctors — in Poland
WARSAW, Poland — Brexit uncertainty isn’t stopping the U.K.’s National Health Service from hiring doctors from beyond its borders — including from the EU. Enter firms like Paragona, which calls itself...
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Polish priest in hot water
WARSAW — Tadeusz Rydzyk, Poland’s most politically powerful priest, is using an injection of government funds to build a geothermal plant — prompting opposition politicians to cry foul. Poland’s ruling...
View Article‘Poland has crossed the Rubicon.’ Tusk’s lawyer slams government over alleged...
WARSAW — Accusations that the Polish government has been spying on journalists, lawyers and opposition politicians have pushed the country’s democracy to a tipping point, according to Donald Tusk’s...
View ArticlePoland’s two very different borders
WARSAW — Poland has effusively greeted more than 2.5 million refugees who crossed the border from Ukraine. There’s a much frostier welcome for migrants trying to enter from Belarus. While Poland sees...
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Adam Bodnar: The Polish justice minister at center of political battle over...
WARSAW — When the opposition won power in last October’s general election it vowed that returning the rule of law to Poland would be a top priority. That promise is now putting Justice Minister Adam...
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