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Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. What is going on in poland . Injuly, the European Union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. Its threatening to withdraw funding and suspend polands Voting Rights in eu. My guest today is the polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. It is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from Liberal Democracy . And what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world . Foreign minister Wito...

On a different and to a certain degree unique feel. because you have to also keep in mind that poland and ukraine, the populations are quite close. so conversations here are no longer about how hi, how are you today? it's hi, oh, my friend called me. he's decided to go to ukraine to fight. or hi, my relative inside ukraine, we haven't been able to get ahold of them. and so the way that the war is percolating over the borders, permeating over the borders, that is having a separate impact on the polish population here who is also now trying to figure out how to absorb these hundreds of thousands...

Decision. for the vast majority, it's really boiled down to saving their children. but they've left their men behind, their husbands, their sons, their fathers. conversations here start to take on a different and perhaps to a certain degree unique feel because you have to also keep in mind that poland and ukraine, the populations, they're quite close, and so conversations here are no longer about, hi, how are you today. it's, hi, oh, my friend called me. he's decided to go to ukraine to fight. or, hi, my relative inside ukraine, we haven't been able to get ahold of them. so the way that the wa...

Find it cheaper to live in those cities to start a new life, but what a difficult thing to confront when you have escaped oval zone. polish families are off at 8 euros a day of government support if they can take in ukrainian families. this is only going to continue, especially as the fighting is coming further and further west, fighting is coming further and furtherwest, more fighting is coming further and further west, more people will cross the border this way putting more pressure on polish cities and the polish population. 0k, danjohnson at the train station in krakow, thank you very much...

Knowing where they are, particularly and very little idea of where they are trying to get. they have left everything behind and they don't know where their final destination will be. the hope is they want to return to ukraine one day. they don't give up that hope so they don't want to go too farfrom the border. the encouragement is if they head to the cities, accommodation will be available, perhaps jobs will be available and the polish government have said they will give refugees the right to live and work for at least 18 months. they may find it cheaper to live in those cities to start a new...