-- ON 10 THOUSAND METERS, A CONVERSATION BETWEEN 300POLITYKA AND THE PRIME MINISTERS OF POLAND AND LITHUANIA: Presidents Adamkus and Kaczyński used to fly together just like we are today with Prime Minister Morawiecki. We will restore our relations to the same level. https://300polityka.pl/news/2018/06/05/prezydenci-adamkus-i-kaczynski-tak-razem-latali-jak-my-dzis-z-premierem-morawieckim-przywrocimy-nasze-stosunki-na-ten-sam-poziom-300polityka-w-niecodziennej-rozmowie-z-premierami-polski-i-litwy-na/

-- GUS: FEWER EXTREMELY POOR - headline in GW (Gazeta Wyborcza).

- JAN ŚPIEWAK WANTS A CENTRAL PARK: “We do not want to represent the interests of developers and we are saying stop to the concretization of the city. The city should be not only for the rich, but for everyone. When it's warm outside, the temperature on Defilad Square often reaches 40 degrees Celsius. How are elderly people supposed to feel there?” - he says.

-- ŚPIEWAK ON A SUSPICIOUS ZONING PLAN: “We have submitted a petition to the Warsaw City Council, through which we want to enforce the implementation of our vision and draw attention to a number of problems faced by the city's residents,” Śpiewak tells us. “It is possible that the current zoning plan for Defilad Square was created with bribes,” he adds, referring to the reprivatization scandal concerning the handover of plots in the city center. https://noizz.pl/spoleczenstwo/warszawski-park-centralny-co-powstanie-na-placu-defilad/vtzfhr9

-- POLISH GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES BUT VOTES FOR INTERNET FILTERING - Sylwia Czubkowska in GW: “The controversial regulations increase the rights of publishers and introduce monitoring of copyright compliance. The Polish government opposes them, but votes for further work on the entire directive. (...) What could this mean in practice for internet users? Memes, videos, vacation photos, texts containing quotes – practically any content shared by users of social media services could soon be under special supervision. Companies will check whether our materials do not infringe copyright. And an infringement could be considered, for example, the use of a fragment of someone else's image or photo in a meme, or a fragment of a song in a YouTube video about the history of the song's author.”

-- CZUBKOWSKA QUOTES WIKIPEDIA FOUNDER APPEALING NOT TO ADOPT THE DIRECTIVE: “This is precisely how Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, perceives these regulations. He appealed on Twitter to publicize the work on these new regulations. According to critics of these regulations, the new EU law may have much more serious consequences than GDPR. http://wyborcza.pl/7,156282,23493525,zbliza-sie-unijna-dyrektywa-o-prawach-autorskich-tworca-wikipedii.html

-- DO RZECZY ON REGULATIONS WORSE THAN ACTA: “Meanwhile, the European Parliament's vote on the directive on copyright and the digital single market is approaching. Voices are emerging that this is 'the end of the Internet as we know it.' Will another popular mobilization be needed? https://dorzeczy.pl/66236

-- IT WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE TO SHARE LINKS, THERE WILL BE NO MEMES - Patryk Osowski on wp (Wirtualna Polska): “It will not be possible to publicly share links, every photo and video will be checked before uploading. Small publishers and content creators will disappear, only internet giants will remain. There will not even be memes. Such a future is written into the European directive. https://tech.wp.pl/idzie-nowa-acta-po-tej-decyzji-ue-mozemy-zapomniec-o-internecie-jaki-znamy-6258112905889921a

-- SCHETYNA AND THE IDEOLOGUE OF THE RIGHT, UJAZDOWSKI A FAILED CANDIDATE - Wojciech Szymański in GW: “Wrocław has built an anti-PiS opposition without Civic Platform. The grouping is now fighting alone for the city, fielding a candidate who is a cast-off. This is the result of political arrogance and a significant defeat for Schetyna.

-- IF NOT FOR SCHETYNA, THE ANTI-PIS CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE WON IN THE FIRST ROUND - Szymański: “If Schetyna had not stubbornly stuck to his guns and had reached an agreement with the other political groups, a joint anti-PiS presidential candidate would have won Wrocław in the first round. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23494449,samotna-szarza-schetyny-ujazdowski-chybionym-kandydatem-na.html

-- NOWOCZESNA AND DEBT COLLECTORS - Wojciech Czuchnowski and Małgorzata Kolińska-Dąbrowska in GW: “During the election campaign, the head of the debt collection company Kruk financially supported Nowoczesna. Two years later, the party voted against a law unfavorable to Kruk. - Our stance had nothing to do with campaign money - assures Mirosław Suchoń from Nowoczesna.

-- JSW REGRETS VOTING ON DEBT COLLECTORS: “One person regrets voting ‘against’. It’s Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, who recently left the party. – I am sorry, I followed the lead of the person who was managing this bill. It was a mistake – she tells ‘Wyborcza’. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23495389,szef-firmy-windykacyjnej-wplacal-na-nowoczesna-a-jej-poslowie.html

-- EITHER PLATFORMA SUPPORTS EU BUDGET CUTS OR IT MEANS NOTHING IN EUROPE - Jacek Karnowski: “The matter is truly interesting. Because the people who propose cuts – de facto discriminatory towards Poland and other countries in the region – belong to the European People's Party! This applies to both EC President Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioner for Budget Günther Oettinger. Since Platform boasts so much about its influence in the EPP, since it has brought the entire international community to Warsaw, there are two options:

1. Either the cuts are actually supported by Platform;

2. Or the isolated, instrumentally treated Platform actually means nothing in the EPP.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/397236-albo-platforma-popiera-ciecia-w-budzecie-unii-albo-tak-naprawde-nic-w-europie-nie-znaczy-trzeciego-wyjscia-nie-ma

-- HOW PLATFORMA INTENDS TO USE ITS INFLUENCE IN EUROPE REGARDING THE BUDGET - MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI: “Where is Mr. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek? Has he said anything? What – besides scheming how to finish off PiS and Schetyna – is Mr. Donald Tusk doing? Where are Róża Thun, Janusz Lewandowski, Barbara Kudrycka, and others? Why is no one asking them a simple question: what have they done and what do they intend to do to block this shocking shift of money from East to South? These negotiations are not just a government matter; they are taking place on many levels, including the European Commission, the European Parliament, and behind the scenes. https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/397075-co-poza-kombinowaniem-jak-wykonczyc-pis-i-schetyne-robi-tusk-a-bienkowska-czemu-milczy-buzek

-- CPK WILL BE A BLOW TO GERMANY - MONEY.PL: “The giant Polish airport in Baranów will be another blow to the Berlin Brandenburg airport, which has been struggling to get off the ground for years. German media have no doubts about this. They ask whether the Polish investment is really necessary. https://m.money.pl/wiadomosci/artykul/artykul,165,0,2407845.html

-- ALSO IN 2017 GRABARCZYK SUPPORTED CPK - WP (Wirtualna Polska): “I believe in this hub project, which I once dreamed of and which Prime Minister Morawiecki often mentions now – said Grabarczyk at the Krynica Economic Forum in 2017.

-- EXPERTISE SHOWED THAT POLAND CAN BENEFIT FROM CPK - CONTINUES WP: “Should CPK be built? - In the current situation, there is no unambiguous answer to this question - Cezary Grabarczyk tells Wirtualna Polska. - An expert opinion from 2010 indeed showed that Poland could benefit from this project. However, it was necessary to find the right location and build high-speed rail and motorways – adds the Civic Platform politician. https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kilka-lat-temu-minister-po-marzyl-o-centralnym-porcie-lotniczym-6259156910106241a

-- MARCIN KĘDRYNA ON CPK: “Critics of #CPK complain that it's further to Baranów than to Okęcie. They are right. It takes 20 minutes to Okęcie. From Okęcie they fly to Frankfurt, where they wait about two hours for the right flight. #CPK – although further away – will eliminate Frankfurt.” https://twitter.com/marcin_kedryna/status/1003902394810368002

-- MANFRED WEBER, EPP CHAIRMAN, APPEALS FOR COMPLETION OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EU - as he tells Jędrzej Bielecki in RZ (Rzeczpospolita): “The Polish government has taken some steps here, we appreciate that. But they are not sufficient. I therefore appeal to the Polish government to complete this process. Without it, Poland will not regain its influence in Brussels.

-- PIS MEMBERSHIP IN EPP IS NOT ON THE AGENDA - WEBER IN RZ: “But we have positive signals from the government of Mateusz Morawiecki, which gives hope for an agreement, especially since EC President Jean-Claude Juncker has also clearly stated that he is ready for a compromise. Is PiS a party that adheres to 'European values' and could belong to the EPP? This is not on the agenda. We have strong partners from Poland, PO and PSL.

-- WEBER SEES WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE WITH THE EU IN ORBÁN: “Willingness to cooperate within the Union is key. And I see it in Viktor Orbán. True, there have been proceedings against Hungary for violating European law, but Orbán has compromised. Here lies the difference between him and Kaczyński. http://www.rp.pl/Unia-Europejska/306049908-Manfred-Weber-W-Unii-Kaczynski-musi-grac-jak-Orban.html&template=restricted

-- TV WITHOUT DECENCY, MORAWIECKI WANTS TO REPLACE KURSKI? - lead story in GW: “There is also a problem with decision-making since President Kaczyński has been in the hospital. This also concerns the head of TVP, Jacek Kurski. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is dissatisfied with him. The head of government believes that the level of government propaganda that is broadcast daily on television is unbearable. - Kurski, along with several ministers, is on Morawiecki's list for replacement. The Prime Minister discussed this with the President in the hospital, but achieved nothing. And without his approval, government members and the head of TVP cannot be moved – tells us an insider from the party headquarters on Nowogrodzka street. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23494638,telewizja-bez-dna-ile-i-kto-zaplaci-zeby-utrzymac-media-publiczne.html

-- THE STATE ON ITS KNEES BEFORE THE PRESIDENT - Paweł Wroński in GW: “I belong to a generation that once listened to communiqués about the flourishing health of the First Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, or Konstantin Chernenko – who had a 'slight cold'. This historical experience has taught me skepticism towards information about the health of party leaders provided by their courtiers. http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23494444,panstwo-na-kolanie-prezesa.html

-- FRAGMENT OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JACEK GĄDEK AND KRZYSZTOF BREJZA - AM I ASKING YOU HARDER QUESTIONS THAN YOU USUALLY HEAR: - Why didn't you criticize your party when the daughter of Minister Jacek Rostowski advised Minister Sikorski? If you are so principled today in holding 'PiS-ites' accountable, why didn't you pursue them within your own party?

-- Do you want to make me a hypocrite?

-- No. I'm simply asking harder questions than you usually hear.

-- But what do you expect from me now?

-- A clear assessment of the example with the minister's daughter.

-- I am not an enthusiast of such situations.”

-- BREJZA TELLS GĄDEK THAT HE IS GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE: “I am going on the offensive. In every army and military unit, there is a staff, commanders, units responsible for logistics. And I am a soldier on the front line offensive – the one closest to the enemy.” http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,23488248,krzysztof-brejza-o-dzialaniach-pis-mszcza-sie-za-to-ze-ujawnilem.html#MT

-- NO ONE CONSIDERED JUNE 4TH A BREAKTHROUGH - ANTONI DUDEK IN RZ: “The truth is that no one ever considered these elections a significant breakthrough. Even half of Poles did not go to the polls then. In my opinion, it was on June 4th that the process of transformation was initiated, which gave birth to the Third Polish Republic in its current form. A country with civil liberties, which reoriented its foreign policy from East to West, and replaced a centrally planned economy with a free market.

-- MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ APPEALS TO PMM (Prime Minister Morawiecki) REGARDING PAWŁOWICZ: “But the problem is broader – it raises the question of whether the stance of the Honourable MP is the stance of the ruling party. And since the PiS leader is currently in the hospital, I am directing this question to a member of the party's authorities and, at the same time, the head of government, Mateusz Morawiecki. Did you become Prime Minister to improve the image of the ruling camp? Will it now be the custom of the ruling party that politicians of this party will point out which journalists are acting to the detriment of our state? Is this how PiS is supposed to open up to the center? Is this what freedom of speech and the right to press criticism, guaranteed by the constitution, are supposed to mean? http://www.rp.pl/Felietony/306049909-Szuldrzynski-Pani-posel-mam-zla-wiadomosc-Wrocilem.html&template=restricted

-- EWA SIEDLECKA WRITES ABOUT THE RPO (Commissioner for Human Rights) REPORT - NO BETTER THAN PREDECESSORS, BUT FEWER COMPLAINTS ABOUT HINDRANCES TO BUSINESS ACTIVITY: “From reading the RPO report, it appears that the PiS government is no better than its predecessors in ensuring these rights for citizens. People complain about the same problems they complained about under previous governments. And just as often. The only difference: there are fewer complaints regarding hindrances to conducting business activities due to the actions of public administration bodies. However, complaints arose about difficulties in contacting offices or institutions.

-- SIEDLECKA ON TRANSPORT EXCLUSION RAISED BY THE RPO: “So-called transport exclusion is becoming a growing problem, i.e., the inability to travel from smaller towns to work, school, or courses.

-- SIEDLECKA ON DETENTIONS UNDER THE GUISE OF IDENTIFICATION: “The PiS governments have not only failed to deal with old problems in the area of civil rights, but have generated their own. In 2017, the number of complaints against the police increased: for abuse of power during detentions, arrests, and interrogations. The phenomenon of detention under the guise of identification has become a plague. https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1751098,1,raport-rpo-ujawnia-gleboki-kryzys-praw-obywatelskich.read

-- JADWIGA EMILEWICZ ON WANTING THE LONGEST POSSIBLE SEGMENT OF THE CHAIN IN ELECTROMOBILITY PRODUCTION - tells Łukasz Pawłowski in KL (Kultura Liberalna): “The Polish economy will benefit when we build the longest possible parts of the value chain in Poland – when we are not just end consumers, but take over the longest possible segment of this chain and are as high up as possible. We already have Polish buses – including electric ones – and cities want to order them. This is the foundation for the claim that electromobility can be Poland's specialty. https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2018/06/05/jadwiga-emilewicz-elektromobilnosc-rozmowa-samochod-elektryczny/

-- BIRTHDAYS: Jacek Protasiewicz, Paweł Lech, Ludwik Dorn, Leszek Dobrzyński, Stefan Śnieżko, Wojciech Sadurski, Czesław Sobierajski.