Poland
This month World Questions comes from Warsaw in Poland.
After eight years of right-wing rule in Poland, a new government has taken power. Under the Law and Welfare Party, Poland had frequent clashes with the European Union over the rule of law and the EU froze 30 billion euros of its funds. But the new Prime Minster is Donald Tusk, the former President of the European Council. A sudden change of culture has led to the arrest of politicians in the Presidential Palace, mass protests, sackings within the state broadcaster, and promises to repeal restrictive abortion laws and institute an independent judiciary. But are the new government鈥檚 robust actions the strengthening the law or undermining it? With February marking two years since the start of a war in Ukraine that has affected Poland so deeply, there is much to debate. This edition of World Questions is presented by Jonny Dymond with a public audience in the Royal Castle of Warsaw.
