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PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski greets Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo in parliament (Photo: pis.org.pl)

Left unchecked, Poland's attack on rights will harm EU

Since it came into power in October 2015, Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has gone to great lengths to dismantle the fundamental checks and balances against government abuse of power on which functioning democracies depend.

In a democracy the need to protect people's rights imposes limits on government power and in the event those safeguards don't prevent rights violations, it should be possible to get redress through independent courts.

Yet the Warsaw government has m...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski greets Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo in parliament (Photo: pis.org.pl)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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