Poland embraces the West amid Ukraine crisis after years of drifting away
recently that the city’s services were at risk of being overwhelmed.
Poland is also turning back migrants from the Middle East at its border with Belarus, part of a geopolitical standoff with that country. that they have “no place in the European Union or anywhere in the world.” In 2020, he cited Poland alongside Hungary and Belarus as countries where democracy was under threat.
Since coming to power in 2015, the Law and Justice party has asserted sweeping executive authority over the judiciary — remaking the process of appointing, promoting and disciplining judges. In 2017, a commission of the Council of Europe warned that the reorganization of the judiciary bore a “striking resemblance with the institutions which existed in the Soviet Union and its satellites.
Camino Mortera-Martinez, head of the Brussels office of the Center for European Reform, said she worries that the Ukraine crisis will effectively grant Poland a “get out of jail free pass.” Biden’s visit “gives hope and security to people in Poland, and probably also relief to many Ukrainians,” said Ryszard Schnepf, a former Polish ambassador to the United States.
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