-- AGNIESZKA ŚCIGAJ - ONE OF KUKIZ’15 LEADERS STATES THAT THE CIVIC COALITION WILL NOT ENTER GOVERNMENT AFTER THE NEXT ELECTIONS - We are not considering such a possibility. We will not enter a traditional coalition that involves receiving positions, a few ministries, in exchange for silence and rubber-stamping whatever the ruling party imagines. We want good legal solutions. And that's why we need people with a strong backbone; those who are not bought off by meager benefits leave us. What remains are incorruptible people. https://video.wp.pl/i,poslanka-kukiz15-odpadaja-od-nas-ludzie-bez-kregoslupa,mid,2020732,cid,2303843,klip.html

-- ŚCIGAJ ON HOW SHE WARNED PROTESTERS AGAINST POLITICIANS EXPLOITING SYMPATHIES FOR JOANNA SCHEURING-WIELGUS, REJECTING PARTY OBLIGATIONS - WHO RULES US ON WP.PL: https://video.wp.pl/i,agnieszka-scigaj-zdradza-kulisy-protestu-w-sejmie-,mid,2020746,cid,2303843,klip.html

-- 300LIVE: CYMAŃSKI ON INCOME CRITERIA FOR 500+, SARYUSZ ON THE EU BUDGET NOT BEING SUSTAINABLE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/06/01/

-- POLISH CULTURE'S SUCCESSES AND PFN'S FLIGHTS OF FANCY - Jacek Żakowski on wp: “If the hundreds of millions wasted on the flights of fancy of the Polish National Foundation were given to creators who have access to the thoughts and emotions of millions of people worldwide, and if they were used to even more strongly showcase the works of our culture internationally – perhaps following the path of the spectacular successes Poland has achieved in recent weeks – then Polishness would cease to be associated with an increasingly unpleasant impression for people around the world.” https://ksiazki.wp.pl/polska-kultura-ma-sie-dobrze-choc-rzad-robi-duzo-by-miala-sie-zle-6257392536082561a

-- KORNEL MORAWIECKI ON HIS SON'S ARRESTS BY THE SB: “The authorities wanted to reach opposition figures through children, through young people. They thought Mateusz was meeting with me. While in hiding, I saw him maybe once or twice. It was dangerous. Those experiences hardened him greatly. They wanted to break him, but they only strengthened him. It's a paradox.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/396777-kornel-morawiecki-o-porwaniu-syna-przez-sluzby-prl-to-go-wzmocnilo-wladza-przez-dzieci-chciala-dojsc-do-opozycjonistow

-- TOMASZ CIMOSZEWICZ'S OUTRAGEOUS TWEET - local GW: “An outrageous tweet referencing one of the Corpus Christi processions was posted on Twitter on the day of the holiday by Tomasz Cimoszewicz, a PO MP from Podlasie. 'And you complain about the marathon runners in Warsaw. They sat down in the middle of the street and are celebrating mass,' he wrote about the participants.” http://bialystok.wyborcza.pl/bialystok/7,35241,23476458,bulwersujacy-wpis-podlaskiego-posla-tomasza-cimoszewicza-o-procesji.html

-- BIEŃKOWSKA DID NOTHING FOR THE REGION'S EU BUDGET - diplomat quoted by wPolityce: “Regarding the budget cuts, almost all commissioners from our region were very active in recent weeks, led by the Slovak Vice-President of the Commission, Maroš Šefčovič. He fought for so-called 'transition corridors' for rapidly developing regions that are beginning to lose their entitlement to high subsidies. He promoted his idea, which would significantly minimize cuts for our region, so intensely that it earned the name 'the Slovak variant'. (...) So, literally all commissioners from our region fought, with one exception: Elżbieta Bieńkowska. She did nothing. Literally nothing. She simply remained silent on the budget issue.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/396722-tylko-u-nas-gdy-inni-komisarze-z-naszego-regionu-walczyli-o-unijny-budzet-elzbieta-bienkowska-milczala-nie-zrobila-nic-doslownie-nic

-- ONE MUST BE MADE OF SPIRITUAL JELLY TO BE ASHAMED OF SPEAKING POLISH - JACEK KARNOWSKI: “Even if, hypothetically, we assume for a moment that all these terrible foolishness being told about Poland were true, would that be a reason not to speak Polish? When we meet a Turk, for example, do we attack him for imprisoning journalists, corruption, mass purges? Of course not. It doesn't even cross our minds. Really, one must be made of spiritual and psychological jelly to be ashamed of Polishness and the Polish language because of this or that turn of the electoral wheel!” https://wpolityce.pl/spoleczenstwo/396765-okazuje-sie-ze-polska-rzadzili-ludzie-z-dramatycznie-wrecz-niska-samoocena-wystarczyla-zmiana-wladzy-by-zaczeli-wstydzic-sie-polskosci

-- MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI ON THE END OF THE EU AS WE KNOW IT - writes in RZ: “As a result, the clear and objective criteria, based on which cohesion fund resources were distributed until now, will be replaced by significantly less transparent, more discretionary social or even political criteria. This, in turn, means a complete change in the understanding of European solidarity on which the Union was founded.” http://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/305319929-Szuldrzynski-Koniec-Unii-jaka-znamy.html

-- RZ REPORTS THAT PRZYŁĘBSKA RECEIVED PROTECTION: “For at least two weeks, the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Julia Przyłębska, has reportedly been protected by officers of the State Protection Service – this information has been confirmed by two independent sources connected with these services. Government protection for the President of the Constitutional Tribunal is a precedent.” http://www.rp.pl/Sluzby-mundurowe/305319960-Julia-Przylebska-dostala-panstwowa-ochrone-osobista.html&template=restricted

-- MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI ON TRZASKOWSKI'S WORDS ABOUT WHY WE NEED AN AIRPORT IF THERE WILL BE ONE IN BERLIN - ACCEPTING PERIPHERAL STATUS: “Who are these 'we' then, who will have an airport in Berlin? Perhaps they are Civic Platform people? Yes, that would align with Morawiecki's seemingly jocular thesis about the CDU possibly replacing Polish parties. Perhaps PO is simply a CDU branch? How many development opportunities have we lost through such thinking? Let's say it clearly: in any European country that seriously considers its interests, Rafał Trzaskowski would already be out of politics. Regardless of all ideological and worldview differences, a politician admitting to accepting the peripheral status of their own country, believing that a neighbor having industry/an airport/an airline/a university negates the need for developing one's own forces, would signify a shameful end. Is there any other formation in Europe that has made weakness, backwardness, and subservience its banner?” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/396764-w-kazdym-normalnym-kraju-pan-trzaskowski-bylby-juz-poza-polityka-ale-u-nas-trwa-wiec-moze-po-to-oddzial-cdu

-- ON CULTURE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE PIS GOVERNMENTS - Mariusz Cieślik in RZ: “Stylists lose their style, and humorists lose their sense of humor when they write about the terrible things happening in Poland today. And I will never forgive PiS for this.” http://www.rp.pl/Felietony/305319948-Cieslik-Co-PiS-zrobil-z-tym-Pokrajem.html

-- THE PRESIDIUM OF NOWOCZESNA SUPPORTED SUTRYK DESPITE PRESSURE FROM SCHETYNA, LUBNER DELAYED - Wrocław GW: “Party leader Katarzyna Lubnauer delayed accepting this decision, asking to postpone the vote on this matter from mid-May to the end of the month. All this was due to the pressure that the leader of Civic Platform, Grzegorz Schetyna, tried to exert on the head of Nowoczesna.” http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,23476458,nowoczesna-mowi-tak-sutrykowi-zarzad-krajowy-zaakceptowal.html

-- THE OPPOSITION AND WAŁĘSA APPEAL TO THE EC - as reported on the front page of GW: “PO and Nowoczesna want to appeal to the European Commission to file a complaint with the EU Court of Justice to halt the personnel purges in the Supreme Court. The wording of the document is being coordinated. Lech Wałęsa published his appeal on Wednesday.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23476396,lech-walesa-apeluje-do-komisji-europejskiej-w-sprawie-polskich.html

-- RADNY FROM GŁOGÓW ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONALISTS, WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE KGHM POLLUTION CASE, HAS DIED - local GW: “The death of Paweł Chruszcz has shocked Głogów. The councilor was strongly involved in the lives of the residents. It was he who obtained studies indicating significant exceedances of arsenic levels in the air and filed a criminal complaint against KGHM with the prosecutor's office. He compared the results of the studies. In those conducted by KGHM, arsenic levels in the air over Głogów were not exceeded. Meanwhile, studies conducted in the same place by the Provincial Inspectorate for Environmental Protection showed that they were exceeded by 267%.” http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,23478866,nie-zyje-glogowski-radny-pawel-chruszcz-jego-cialo.html

-- SE REPORTS THAT GŁOGÓW RADNY WAS THE BROTHER OF MP CHRUSZCZ: “Sylwester Chruszcz (46), an MP from the Wolni i Solidarni (Free and United) group, is going through a difficult time. His younger brother, Paweł Chruszcz (+42), died under unclear circumstances. The police found his body near the village of Droglowice near Białołęka. The deceased was a councilor from Głogów and a well-known 'tracker' of scandals. Recently, he was involved with a private kindergarten that received a huge subsidy to purchase its building.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/byly-posel-kukiz15-stracil-brata-radny-zginal-w-tajemniczych-okolicznosciach-aa-41dp-j6Z6-MhPu.html

-- UJAZDOWSKI IN HIS POST CONVINCES THAT HE IS NOT SO TERRIBLE, BUT DOESN'T MENTION WROCŁAW: “I have always been and remain faithful to my views. I left PiS when it was at the beginning of its rule and had over 40% support. I left PiS alone in defense of what is fundamental – the independence of the Constitutional Tribunal, the independence of the judiciary, constitutional democracy. https://www.facebook.com/kmujazdowski/videos/2050439968331308/

-- NITRAS ON SZCZECIN LOSING STUDENTS - local GW: “Nitras showed journalists official statistics indicating how many students Szczecin is losing. 'In 2006, when the first term of Mayor Piotr Krzystek began, nearly 70,000 students were studying in Szczecin,' said the PO politician. 'Now we have 37,000. Of course, this is also due to the demographic downturn; other cities are also losing students, but not at the same rate as Szczecin. In Rzeszów, which has only 188,000 inhabitants, there are now 49,000 students.'” http://szczecin.wyborcza.pl/szczecin/7,34939,23474309,nitras-i-akademicki-szczecin-zaklad-pogrzebowy-i-budka-jak.html

-- WAŁĘSA AS AN ANNOUNCER IN GDAŃSK TRAMS - Gdańsk GW: “Gdańsk councilors from Platforma Obywatelska want Lech Wałęsa's recorded voice to announce stops related to the history of 'Solidarity' in trams and buses. 'He agreed, he will do it very willingly,' we heard from the former president's office.” http://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/7,35612,23472986,pomysl-na-nowa-atrakcje-turystyczna-w-gdansku-lech-walesa-zapowie.html

-- PRESIDENT OF GDYNIA REACHES FOR MONEY FROM THE MORAWIECKI PLAN: “Gdynia and neighboring municipalities will receive millions of zlotys from the Polish Development Fund for the sale of shares in the Water and Sewerage Company (PEWiK). This will be in the form of a loan that PEWiK will repay, as the company will undertake to buy back these shares from the fund.” http://trojmiasto.wyborcza.pl/trojmiasto/7,35612,23468910,prezydent-szczurek-siega-po-pieniadze-z-planu-morawieckiego.html

-- FAKT REPORTS THAT PIĘTA ARRANGED JOB TALKS FOR HIS MISTRESS, BUT NOTHING CAME OF IT: https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/posel-stanislaw-pieta-zalatwial-kochance-prace/k86thhr

-- WHAT ELSE IS PIĘTA DOING IN PIS? - Piotr Cywiński on wPolityce: “The later it gets, the worse it is, not for Pięta, but for his entire group. If he cannot make this decision, then the party that has ethical-moral principles emblazoned on its banners should make the decision for him, at least to suspend him pending clarification. Jarosław Kaczyński's knee pain has been joined by Pięta's pain. The difference is that the latter ailment can and should be eliminated immediately. There is nothing more to clarify here, period!” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/396729-co-posel-pieta-robi-jeszcze-w-pis-jesli-on-nie-potrafi-podjac-decyzji-to-partia-powinna-podjac-ja-za-niego

-- STORIES FROM MOSS AND FERNS WON'T SAVE THIS TEAM FROM LIBIDO AND LOOSE LIPS - Tomasz Walczak in GW: “But perhaps instead of looking for devilish forces everywhere, PiS politicians should be fitted with chastity belts, and effective security procedures should be introduced in state institutions. Because stories from moss and ferns will not make the state suddenly secure from the libido and loose tongues of the people in this team.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/tomasz-walczak-komentuje-teorie-spiskowe-nie-rozgrzeszaja-pis-aa-yMug-XwbG-ekwB.html

-- RELATIONS WITH CHINA SHOULD BE HANDLED BY COMPETENT PERSONS, NOT SUSKI - Katarzyna Sarek in KL: “We need to take care of contacts with China, but competent people should handle them. Those who are aware of the differences and similarities, who will be able to find common ground and engage in dialogue about differences. Those who will ensure substantive cooperation where it is truly necessary, without falling into strange servility. I fear that MP Suski is not a person who possesses the appropriate competencies and sufficient knowledge about China for the burden of building Polish-Chinese relations to rest on his shoulders. And about Marx, maybe, though it's unclear for how long, he can listen in Poland, he doesn't need to fly to China.” https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2018/05/31/marek-suski-chiny-marks-poglady/

-- HUEBNER HAS OVER A MILLION EUROS IN CASH SAVINGS - Fakt: “There is no single record holder – the top positions are held by Danuta Huebner from PO and Karol Karski from PiS. Huebner has PLN 540,000 and EUR 1.1 million, USD 4,000, and CHF 13,000. She also owns an apartment worth EUR 400,000 and half the shares in an apartment worth PLN 700,000. Karol Karski has PLN 1.2 million, EUR 705,000, USD 64,000, and CHF 82,000. The PiS politician also owns a house and apartments worth over PLN 1.6 million.” https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/majatki-polskich-europoslow-tyle-zarobili-w-brukseli/tdh9ckp

-- FAKT ON THE COMPENSATION JAROSŁAW WAŁĘSA RECEIVED AFTER THE ACCIDENT: “Jarosław Wałęsa received over EUR 206,000 in compensation for an accident seven years ago. The money comes from the insurance covering MEPs in the European Parliament. This information appeared in the MEP's asset declaration. In 2015, Wałęsa received PLN 110,000 in compensation from the insurer.” https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/jaroslaw-walesa-otrzymal-wysokie-odszkodowanie-za-wypadek/v8eql52

-- BIRTHDAYS: Anita Czupryn, Kamila Baranowska, Grzegorz Pietruczuk, Tosia Kamińska, Wiesław Szczepański, Ewa Wolak.