-- PRIME MINISTER WITH ENTIRE FAMILY AT THE POPE'S, MILLER DOESN'T RULE OUT RUNNING FOR MEP - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/06/04/

-- RELATIONS WITH GERMANY ARE BETTER THAN WE THINK - JĘDRZEJ BIELECKI IN RZ ON THE EVE OF STEINMEIER'S VISIT TO DUDY: "However, German sources emphasize that relations between the two countries are already better than often perceived. 'Poland has a stable government. Even if we don't agree on everything, we can deal with it,' say government sources in Berlin."

-- GERMANY NO LONGER CRITICIZES POLAND AS HARSHLY AS BEFORE - JĘDRZEJ BIELECKI CONTINUES IN RZ: "Germany is therefore no longer criticizing Poland as harshly as it used to. They also emphasize that our country adheres to the Dublin Convention by accepting illegal immigrants who have reached the West through Polish territory. They acknowledge that some Ukrainians who have come to Poland are indeed refugees. And they stress that Morawiecki's government wants to strengthen the EU's external border." http://www.rp.pl/Swiat/306039966-Niemcy-miejsce-Polski-w-sercu-Unii.html&template=restricted

-- AMIDST OUR LAUGHTER, DUDA WILL DANCE HIS WAY TO A SECOND TERM - Jakub Majmurek: "Andrzej Duda is also becoming increasingly adept in this game of familiarity. Will he have a capable opponent from the non-PiS side to defeat him in 2020? Donald Tusk seems like the obvious candidate, but the situation could unfold very differently. The liberal side, not to mention the left, also lacks anyone with sufficient charisma and outstanding personality to redefine the terms of the presidential race, as the PiS leader has done in parliamentary politics. Until someone like that emerges, while laughing at Duda, let's keep in mind that he might be the one having the last laugh."

http://m.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/wsrod-naszych-smiechow-duda-wytanczy-sobie-druga-ture,artykuly,428280,1.html

-- A HANDFUL OF FACTS ABOUT CPK THAT TRZASKOWSKI DOESN'T KNOW - Kamil Kwiatek: "CPK is not just 'gigantomania' and 'an airport in Berlin.' A handful of facts from reports that Trzaskowski either doesn't know or doesn't want to talk about. The history of the Central Communication Port's construction is not just 'gigantomania' by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki's government and the building of an airport near Berlin, as Rafał Trzaskowski would like to portray it. It's years of helplessness, lack of ideas, concrete decisions, lack of funds, lack of vision extending beyond the nearest polls, and finally, an impossibility that effectively tied the hands of many governments in the past. The idea of building CPK is much older than the United Right governments, even older than the previous Law and Justice governments. In fact! The first plans to build a Central Airport appeared in the early 1970s, when a document titled 'Description of the project for selecting a new airport for Warsaw implemented in the years 1971-74' was created. Yet, there is still no airport..."

https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/396981-cpk-to-nie-tylko-gigantomania-i-lotnisko-w-berlinie-garsc-faktow-z-raportow-o-ktorych-trzaskowski-nie-wie-albo-powiedziec-nie-chce

-- THE PIS AIRPORT ILLUSION - Michał Wojtczuk in GW: "A gigantic airport near Warsaw could make economic sense if it were a hub, i.e., a transfer port for Europe. But there are already such airports in our part of Europe: in Vienna (handling 24 million passengers annually), in Copenhagen (29 million), or in Berlin, where two existing airports handle 35 million passengers. A massive airport, Berlin Brandenburg, has been under construction near Berlin for a decade. The investment is scheduled for completion in 2020."

http://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,23490065,centralny-port-komunikacyjny-lotniskowa-iluzja-wedlug-pis-u.html

-- MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI ON GW'S PUBLICATION "RECLAIMING PARLIAMENT" AND THE UNDEMOCRATIC BARRICADES OF 2010: "Truly undemocratic barricades were erected on Krakowskie Przedmieście after the Smolensk tragedy, when ordinary people wanted to pray at the cross placed by scouts under the Presidential Palace. Our editorial archive contains photos from the summer of 2010. There were no 'Citizens of the Republic of Poland' there, no aggression, only immense pain, sadness, and the desire to pray. And yet - the then authorities said: away with it. Can this really be compared to the current protection of Smolensk commemorations from opposition thugs? In my opinion - no."

https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/396980-kto-naprawde-chce-ukrasc-polakom-sejm-i-demokracje-o-pewnej-manipulacji

-- A BAD SIGN FOR TRZASKOWSKI, OR THE FEAR OF A KOMOROWSKI REPEAT - KAMIL DZIUBKA in Onet: "Rafał Trzaskowski remains the favorite in the autumn battle for power in Warsaw, but more and more of his supporters are either ceasing to believe it or at least are being carried away by a wave of sometimes even hysterical comments. Either way, this is the first success of Patryk Jaki's campaign... And a serious warning for the PO and Nowoczesna candidate. (...) - I've already resigned myself to Jaki becoming the mayor of Warsaw - a friend told me recently. - And I don't want to vote for him at all, God forbid - he added. When asked where his conviction about the decided outcome of the race for the Warsaw city hall came from, he replied, 'Well, because Trzaskowski is doing nothing, and Jaki is constantly visible.'"

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/zly-znak-dla-trzaskowskiego-czyli-strach-przed-powtorka-z-komorowskiego-komentarz/gs8f0hp

-- KACZYŃSKI'S TAPES - ON GW'S FRONT PAGE - excerpts of archival statements by JK from 1994 from his doctoral interview: "He couldn't be the prime minister of a coalition government, because then he wouldn't be the savior of the homeland. These people from the '56 generation are ambitious to a degree that must be described as maniacal" - thus, in 1994, Jarosław Kaczyński characterized Jan Olszewski, who is glorified by PiS propaganda today. We present previously unknown recordings that shed light on how Kaczyński understands politics and his own role in it."

-- THIS IS HOW KACZYŃSKI SPOKE ABOUT MACIEREWICZ IN 1994: "Macierewicz had a leadership drive without leadership qualifications. He is certainly a capable and efficient man and – to be clear – an exceptional one, but he doesn't have Piłsudski's qualifications, and he clearly wanted to be Piłsudski."

-- KACZYŃSKI ON HIS (NON-)ENTRY INTO MAZOWIECKI'S GOVERNMENT AND TAKING CHARGE OF THE SOLIDARITY WEEKLY: "There was indeed a problem with what I was supposed to be minister of, but they there, it seems, thought I was striving to become deputy prime minister, as the press wrote, which was completely untrue. It didn't even cross my mind. (...) However, for certain reasons – I won't hide it – out of ambition, I thought that being in the first non-communist government was in a sense inscribing oneself in history. And I genuinely cared about that. But after about seven or eight days, I realized there were no chances for that, and then I quietly decided to become the editor-in-chief of that weekly ['Tygodnik Solidarność']. But I didn't know if Wałęsa would agree. I knew there would be a conflict with Mazowiecki, so I waited a bit with that."

http://wyborcza.pl/alehistoria/7,121681,23479955,tasmy-kaczynskiego-ujawniamy-nieznane-wypowiedzi-prezesa-pis.html

-- REFLECTION ON JUNE 4TH: THE PURSUIT OF SUCCESS OBSCURED OTHERS' FEAR - JACEK ŻAKOWSKI in GW:"It couldn't last forever. Our longing for life like in the West obscured our longing for others to live safely in their own homes. Our fear of returning to the familiar obscured others' fear of the unknown. The pursuit of success obscured others' fear of the cost. We tried to arrange our lives our own way. We drifted apart, disregarding differences and the fact that we cannot live without others, and that what seemed like a flimsy thread is actually a rope to which we are inextricably bound. Now – as in Pawlikowski's film – while rushing towards Western happiness, we have stumbled into Eastern misfortune. For some, this is painful. For most, it will be. For some, it will be better this way."

http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23489823,nieodrobiona-lekcja.html

-- PROFESSOR PAWEŁ ŚPIEWAK: THE PIS DESCRIPTION AS POPULISTS DOESN'T ENTIRELY CONVINCE ME - he tells Łukasz Rogojsz in Onet: "Currently, three main descriptive languages dominate in defining the political reality surrounding us. The first involves saying that PiS has a populist program. This doesn't entirely convince me, although it is important for one reason - it shows that the Kaczyński phenomenon is not isolated, and we have similar cases in Europe or around the world (including in India). Another language proposes describing PiS's successes in terms of a certain conservative revolution, meaning a revolution that breaks continuity within what has been called the Third Republic, builds a completely new formula for the state and society, and above all, an exchange of elites. Moreover, the conservative character of this revolution is manifested in the appeal to the Church, patriotism, and national tradition. Finally, the third language, with which we currently describe political reality, calls Kaczyński's style of thinking and action neo-authoritarianism. This type of state model is based on the omnipotence of one political party and its unelected leader."

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/prof-pawel-spiewak-elity-spoleczne-i-polityczne-nie-potrafia-zrozumiec-polski-wg-wywiad/pwspp2t

-- ONE LIST WILL CRUSH PIS - Adam Szłapka in GW: "To achieve this, a common open list is necessary, not only of opposition parties – PO, Nowoczesna, PSL, SLD, Partia Razem – but of all who accept the rules of democracy: Robert Biedroń and Barbara Nowacka, activists of social organizations fighting for civil rights, local government officials, local leaders, cultural figures, right-wing politicians who understand that the PiS government is destroying the foundations of the state. All who believe that together we can achieve a civic repair of Poland. This is how we will mobilize a majority that will go to the polls, win these elections, and use what currently serves PiS – the D'Hondt method of calculating votes – for the benefit of Polish democracy. With strong mobilization, this list could achieve more than 50 percent in the elections. This is a majority that will allow for the election of a constitutional majority."

http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23489351,jedna-lista-zmiazdzy-pis-konstytuanta-2019.html

-- DGP ON THE DEATH OF GŁOGÓW COUNCILLOR AND BROTHER OF MP CHRUSZCZ - Klara Klinger and Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska: "During the Sejm session starting tomorrow, Paweł Chruszcz, a councilor from Głogów, was supposed to meet with former deputy head of CBA, Maciej Wąsik. He wanted to give him documents regarding the sale of a kindergarten by the city authorities at what he considered a price that was too low. He didn't manage to. On May 31, his colleagues found him hanging from an electricity pole."

-- HE WAS AFRAID - DGP AUTHORS CONTINUE: "For several days, he had been different. Depressed and scared. As if he wanted to withdraw from what he was doing. He was afraid. He kept saying he was screwed - this is how his acquaintances recall their last contact with councilor Paweł Chruszcz. There are more question marks than answers in the death of the Głogów councilor."

http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/575561,pawel-chruszcz-smierc-radny-glogow-cba-policja-sledztwo-kghm-arsen.html

-- FACT INTERVIEW WITH IZABELA PEK:"As friends informed me, Pięta immediately went to his image consultant colleagues for help. He wanted to save himself at my expense. I knew this was a risk, but the scale of the hate was staggering. Many people who publicly supported the 'good change' are now calling me a whore. They wrote directly that I jumped into bed with Pięta and other PiS politicians."

https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polityka/kochanka-posla-pis-izabela-pek-o-romansie-z-poslem-pieta/42zc40m

-- DR CHWEDORUK ON EVERY HOUR PIĘTA SPENDS IN THE INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE AS A WASTED HOUR - he tells Jacek Nizinkiewicz in RZ: "The potential for political grotesqueness always poses a threat to power. Every hour that MP Pięta continues to be present in the committee on special services and Amber Gold is a wasted hour for PiS."

http://www.rp.pl/Prawo-i-Sprawiedliwosc/306039974-Chwedoruk-Partii-rzadzacej-wolno-mniej.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Bronisław Komorowski, Franciszek Jerzy Stefaniuk, Radosław Witkowski, Filip Styczyński.