Poland’s Attempts to Rebuild Its Democracy Will Have Lessons for Europe
- Donald Tusk has promised to restore Poland’s institutions
- New government to focus on the courts, central bank and media
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The barriers protecting the parliament building in Warsaw were already being removed before Poland’s new leadership could complete the job. Ordinary people started to dismantle them, unimpeded by the police.
Introduced a year or so after the nationalist Law & Justice Party came to power in 2015, the buffer against protesters isn’t needed any more. The party’s pro-European Union opponents are no longer lined up in the street. They’re inside the building, ready to take over this week as the next governing coalition.