Image via PxHere form Introduction It took more than three years after the deadline to implement the CDSM Directive in Poland. The new copyright law, the amended Polish Copyright and Related Rights Act of 1994, entered into force in the early autumn of 2024. Poland is the last country, after Bulgaria, to implement the CDSM Directive. During … Read more
On Tuesday this week, the European Court of Justice rendered two judgments (here and here) on whether Article 22 TFEU gives mobile EU citizens the right to join a national party in order to exercise effectively their right to stand in municipal and European elections. The Court’s judgments are groundbreaking. However, this is not because … Read more
On 10 July 2024, the 83rd anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom, an alternative commemoration was held near the monument to the massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbours. Replete with Roman-Catholic religious references, it boiled down to prayers for Poland and the presentation of posters and slogans: “We demand the truth about Jedwabne!”, “We demand … Read more
For more than 20 years, Elzbieta Janicka has been visiting Treblinka at least twice a month. She knows every nook and cranny of this camp, and some things are known only to her. Like the little cache where she has deposited bone fragments, teeth, bits of spectacle frames, shards of gas chamber tiles or a … Read more
Challenges in Implementing ECtHR Rule of Law Judgments The implementation of judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in cases concerning the protection of the rule of law represents one of the most serious challenges the Polish government currently faces. Because November 2025 marks one year since the ECtHR issued the pilot … Read more
