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Donald Tusk is working on a great transformation, but it is a hugely difficult project, says writer and broadcaster Anne McElvoy
Poland's far-right Law and Justice party spent eight years stacking the courts with allies, destroying the judiciary's independence. The new government is finding it's tough to undo the damage.
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Two deeply polarised camps in the country now disagree on what legal authority is legitimate
Poland’s ruling party is already facing backlash from the courts and the public on its plan to reverse the previous administration’s eight-year grip on public media.
It was said that these were the most important elections since 1989, as a further Law and Justice (PiS) government would have cemented an increasingly illiberal system. In Western media outlets, the opposition’s victory was therefore celebrated as a triumph of a new liberal democratic trajectory. Not much noticed, however, was the underlying Ukrainian trajectory.