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Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Poland

Nov 21, 2017 · 27m 40s
Europe's Illiberal Democrats: Poland
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Is Poland sliding towards autocracy, or just on a different democratic path? The government has been accused of a “systemic threat to the rule of law” and of undermining other...

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Is Poland sliding towards autocracy, or just on a different democratic path? The government has been accused of a “systemic threat to the rule of law” and of undermining other democratic values which it signed up to when it joined the European Union in 2004. Earlier this year thousands took to the streets to protest over government plans to reform the judiciary. Critics say the independence of the courts is under threat but the governing Law and Justice Party argues it is simply clearing out the old order, left over from Communist times.
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Author Guillaume Bouffard
Organization Guillaume's Super Organization
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