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+2 +1Polish opposition calls for international oversight of judiciary vote
‘Poland will cease not only to be a liberal democracy but a democracy at all,’ says opposition party.
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+26 +4Poland’s point of no return
The coming purge of the judiciary will remove the last check on the illiberal government.
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+10 +2Trump’s war on the State Department
President Trump is seeking to radically remodel the State Department in an unprecedented way, according to former officials from administrations of both political parties.
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+14 +5What Trump Gave Poland
Trump’s visit boosted Poland’s ruling right-wing party but produced few other tangible results.
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+1 +1Donald Trump’s speech could have been written by Poland’s populists
In Warsaw, America’s president barely mentions democracy
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+17 +4An American President Was Greeted in Poland by the Confederate Flag
A banner of treason and white supremacy welcomed President Trump.
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+11 +5Trump and Poles, birds of a feather
The U.S. president and the government in Warsaw will find they have much in common.
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+1 +1Opinion | The Next Economic Powerhouse? Poland
Slow and steady growth has positioned Poland to jump ahead of China and India as the most likely candidate to become a wealthy nation.
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+15 +2Europe Will Be Watching Trump’s Visit to a Right-Tilting Poland
In Warsaw, Donald Trump will find a warm welcome, but also wariness about Russia and worry about how he will react to Poland’s rightward shift.
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+13 +2To Welcome Trump, Poland Taps Old Communist Party Playbook
President Donald Trump heads to Poland this week for a state visit, and the country's right-wing government is busing in a friendly crowd.
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+19 +5Opinion | The Troubled Poland Trump Will Visit
Democracy is being eroded in Poland. Does that disturb this American president?
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+29 +6Poland's Kaczynski Invokes Nazis as EU Refugee Clash Deepens
Poland’s ruling party hardened its position against refugees, saying the nation’s past, including the German Nazi invitation in World War II, give it a moral claim to continue to receive the bloc’s development funds regardless of its stance on immigrants.
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+25 +2Present at the Destruction: How Rex Tillerson Is Wrecking the State Department
I worked in Foggy Bottom for 6 years. I’ve never seen anything like this.
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+21 +4Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
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+15 +4Europe, stand up to Poland
The problem of Warsaw’s illiberalism is not just legal but deeply political.
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+38 +8The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
A shadowy operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign heavily influenced the result of the EU referendum. Is our electoral process still fit for purpose?
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+12 +5Once Upon a Time Mao Was Also Regarded as a Crazy Personality Cult Leader With Nukes
Taking a look at our not-so-distant history may be the key to solving the rising tension with North Korea. Pyongyang is defiant and belligerent, while Washington seems in a dilemma. Most analysts agree “there is no silver bullet” to solve the Pyongyang problem, and diplomacy may be the only sensible way to reach a solution. Yet, the Vincent Strike Group is ordered to move into the troubled waters near the Korean Peninsula, which was followed by more hostile rhetoric from Pyongyang. Was Washington’s hyped-response to North Korea’s provocation warranted? It might be beneficial to look back into the “Beijing problem” in the 1950s and 1960s.
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+13 +3Haley on Russia and Iran: 'I don't think anything is off the table'
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said nothing "is off the table" when it comes to imposing tougher sanctions on Russia and Iran in an interview that aired Sunday on CNN.
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+6 +1MEPs call for strict rules for palm oil entering the EU market
On April 4, Members of the European Parliament passed a resolution, calling for the European Union to introduce a single certification scheme for palm oil entering the EU market and phase out the use of vegetable oils that drive deforestation by 2020. The resolution, which was approved by 640 votes to 18, with 28 abstentions, strives to counter the impact of unsustainable palm oil production, such as deforestation and habitat degradation, particularly in South-East Asia, MEPs said.
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+11 +2Putin Takes Tough Stance on Protests, Warns of Arab Spring Chaos
Russian President Vladimir Putin took a tough stance on the biggest mass protests of the past five years, comparing them to the bloodshed and chaos unleashed by the so-called “Arab Spring” revolutions and uprising in neighboring Ukraine.
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