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Debate Voices of Ukraine: #1 What is Ukraine fighting for?
We invite you to the first debate in the ‘Voices of Ukraine’ series, in which we are going to have discussions with Ukrainian experts, journalists, and people working in the culture sector.
Ukraine
Ukraine Solidarity Fund
We launched the Ukraine Solidarity Fund that offers institutional support to social organisations that provide systematic and long-term assistance to people fleeing war in Ukraine. Grants can be awarded to organisations providing direct humanitarian, medical, legal, psychological, social assistance to people crossing the border, as well as those offering long-term support in Poland (including assistance in finding accommodation and employment, child care, adaptation to new conditions, etc.).
Ukraine
Appeal for equal treatment of people fleeing war in Ukraine
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people fleeing attacks by Russian troops have been coming to Poland. They include Ukrainian citizens as well as people from other countries who have found their home in Ukraine. We should remember that they are all fleeing from the same enemy and are in the same situation. They must all be allowed into Poland and treated on an equal basis. Hence, both the actions at the border itself and the regulations planned by the Polish Government must extend the same level of assistance and protection to all those fleeing.
Ukraine
Standing in solidarity with Ukraine
We, the representatives of civil society organisations in Poland, strongly protest against the attack on independent Ukraine by the troops of the Russian Federation. We express solidarity with the citizens of Ukraine, forced to fight militarily in defence of their country, and all the victims of the aggression, which has been going on since 2014 and to this day has brought death to thousands of people while forcing millions to leave their homes. In this terrible hour of trial you are not alone!
Ukraine
Сила цінностей
В Європі триває війна. 24 лютого 2022 року війська Російської Федерації заатакували Україну. Збройні Сили України дали рішучу відсіч агресору, завдаючи йому великих втрат. Українська держава та її інституції функціонують безперервно, політична влада на загальнодержавному та локальному рівні діє в рамках суспільного мандату. Водночас триває евакуація цивільного населення з теренів, безпосередньо охоплених воєнними діями. Тисячі людей вирушили у напрямку західних регіонів України, багато осіб вирішує перетнути кордон.
Rule of law
The rule of law in Poland in 2021
The contributions included in the present document on the rule of law in Poland, in 2021 are submitted by civil society organisations to the European Commission within the framework of the targeted stakeholder consultation the European Commission launched in relation to its 2022 Annual Rule of Law Report. The document follows the structure and applies the headings of the European Commission’s stakeholder consultation survey.
culture
Poland’s top modern art gallery risks stagnation under political appointee
By directly appointing an unqualified candidate to lead the Zachęta gallery, rather than holding an open call for the position, the culture ministry risks harming one of Poland’s most important cultural institutions. It is not too late to change the decision - writes Piotr Kosiewski and Edwin Bendyk.
Debate
The European Green Deal: A recipe for development or a source of conflict?
The green transition presents a particularly daunting challenge in Poland, due to the country’s dependence on coal, strong political polarisation, and populist model of state governance. In such conditions, is it possible to reach a social consensus on the goals and implementation of the green transition? What is the risk that the process will become another source of polarisation and social instability? See the online debate.
Analysis
Legal opinion on the legal consequences of the Constitutional Tribunal ruling
On October 7, 2021 the Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruled that some provisions of the Treaty on European Union are incompatible with the Polish constitution and questioned the powers of the CJEU to rule on the independence of the judiciary in Poland. What are the legal consequences of this ruling? Legal opinion written by Piotr Bogdanowicz.
Debate
Should the EU fear Polexit?
The ruling of the government-controlled Constitutional Tribunal opens the next stage of the political and legal confrontation between the Polish government and the European Union. During the online debate by ECFR Warsaw and ideaForum of the Batory Foundation we will discuss what are the consequences of judgment for Poland and for the European Union. We will ask experts whether Poland has actually entered the path of polexit and what the EU should do to defend its legal space and protect the authority of the CJEU.
Rule of law
Statement on the CT decision on the compatibility of the Treaty on UE with the Polish Constitution
The Constitutional Tribunal decision directly undermines the principles that Poland committed to when it joined the EU in 2004. The ruling on the unconstitutionality of the TUE provisions is not only a blatant violation of EU law, but also a violation of the Polish Constitution, based on which Poland respects the international law - writes The Legal Experts Group of the Batory Foundation.
Commentary
The politicisation of the National Polish Broadcasting Council
A new issue could soon be added to the growing list of ways in which Poland is accused of violating EU law: the media market and the country’s National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT). Bills regulating the KRRiT – including the latest one, which is meant to lead to the sale of private broadcaster TVN – do not secure its independence – writes Szymon Ananicz.
Rule of law
Statement on the CT ruling on interim measures imposed by the Court of Justice of the EU
Legal Experts Group: The so-called “reforms” of the Polish judiciary introduced over the past few years are actually destroying it. They violate both the Constitution and European Union law, because the Constitution and the founding Treaties are built on the same axiological basis – the values of the democratic state and the rule of law.
Rule of law
What kind of Europe will EU funds reconstruct?
The European Union is not merely a community based on democracy and the rule of law. It is also an organisation which functions in a way advantageous to undemocratic governments and may strengthen their authoritarian impulses.
Rule of law
EU Recovery Fund Could Bolster Autocrats; Brussels Needs to Act
A breakdown of the rule of law in Poland from an upcoming ruling by its constitutional court and the parallel inflow of huge EU funds will prove a toxic mix with ramifications for the entire bloc - writes Piotr Buras.
Rule of law
Statement of the Legal Experts Group regarding the Prime Minister’s petition to the Constitutional Tribunal
We warn that if the Constitutional Tribunal rules in accordance with the Prime Minister’s petition, Poland will be in violation of the international obligations to which it freely consented. The state will then be obliged to bear responsibility for this or may be forced to leave the European Union in order to withdraw from its commitments.
Analysis
Citizens’ Involvement in Public Procurement Decisions
In public policy, in which party programmes translate into specific public decisions, closer contact with citizens was deemed to make these decisions not only more acceptable for society but also qualitatively better and closer to the realities of everyday life - writes Grzegorz Makowski.
Analysis
CGFLI: a needs-based or a politics-based scheme?
The Central Government Fund for Local Investments created a divide into categories of "better" and "worse" or "our" and "your" local authorities. With an extremely non-transparent procedure and arbitrary evaluation criteria, the money seems to have been split based on the local authority’s political colours.
Analysis
The Central Government Fund for Local Investments III
Prof. Jarosław Flis and Prof. Paweł Swianiewicz examine the distribution of funds from the third instalment of the CGFLI. The average municipality with a ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) mayor still received over ten times more in grants.
Commentary
Compromise and What Next?
The compromise made at the European Union summit in December 2020 does not end the battle to protect the rule of law in the EU. We present possible further initiatives for EU institutions, civil society organisations, European parties and member states.
Analysis
Laying the groundwork for “grand corruption”
Due to the degradation of the separation of powers and of the rule of law in Poland the risk of corruption increases. In the study we describe in detail the Polish government’s (anti-)corruption activities in 2015–2019 and present the way out.
European Union
We don’t want to be sued into silence
EU-wide legislation should be adopted to protect people across the European Union from Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation (SLAPP). This has to be a priority - together with 100 NGOs we singed an open letter.
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Czy należy się spieszyć z uchwaleniem ustawy o ochronie wolności słowa w Internecie?
  • Krzysztof Izdebski
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Podział mandatów między okręgi wyborcze w wyborach do sejmu
  • Jacek Haman
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Projekt ustawy o ochronie ludności oraz o stanie klęski żywiołowej – uporządkowanie stanu prawnego czy kontynuacja zmiany ustroju bez zmiany Konstytucji?
  • Hubert Izdebski
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Odporność Ukrainy na inwazję militarną Rosji w kontekście reformy decentralizacyjnej
  • Walentyna Romanowa (Valentyna Romanova)
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Ukraine’s resilience to Russia’s military invasion in the context of the decentralisation reform
  • Walentyna Romanowa (Valentyna Romanova)
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Jaka powinna być polityka edukacyjna wobec uchodźców z Ukrainy?
  • Zofia Grudzińska
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Kalendarzowy kalejdoskop
  • Jarosław Flis
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Potrzeba samorządności samorządów
  • Iwona Sagan
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Polska wobec wojny, Polska w świecie po wojnie. Zadania na nowy czas
  • Edwin Bendyk,
  • Piotr Buras
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Polski Bezład Legislacyjny. Raport Obywatelskiego Forum Legislacji z pierwszych dwóch lat IX kadencji Sejmu
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Rozdział środków z Regionalnych Programów Operacyjnych w kadencjach 2014–2018 i 2018–2023 a polityczna kontrola sejmików wojewódzkich
  • Julita Łukomska,
  • Paweł Swianiewicz
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O raporcie “Polki i Polacy o samorządności”
  • Paweł Kubicki (UJ)
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Krajobraz. Miniporadnik
  • Agata Cieszewska,
  • Renata Giedych
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Czego (nie) dowiedzieliśmy się z raportów o stanie gminy?
  • Bartosz Wilk,
  • Dawid Sześciło
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Jaka polityka wsparcia i integracji uchodźców z Ukrainy? Wyzwanie na dziś i na lata
  • Dawid Sześciło
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Polki i Polacy o samorządności. W poszukiwaniu obywatelskiej opowieści o samorządzie lokalnym
  • Adam Gendźwiłł,
  • Dorota Wiszejko-Wierzbicka
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Polska i Stany Zjednoczone: wspólnota interesów czy także wartości?
  • Łukasz Pawłowski
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Ukraina, republika w czasie wojny
  • Edwin Bendyk
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Prawo wyborcze i praktyka w Polsce 2017–2020
  • Jacek Haman
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Reguły, zamiary, praktyki. Prawo wyborcze i wybory 2017–2020
  • Adam Gendźwiłł
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