-- GOWIN'S REFORM ONLY ON JULY 3RD - WHAT'S ON THE NEXT PARLIAMENTARY SESSION:https://300polityka.pl/news/2018/06/15/sejm-dopiero-3-lipca-przyjmie-tzw-konstytucje-dla-nauki-zajmie-sie-tez-wnioskiem-o-odwolanie-jurgiela/

-- 300LIVE: THE LIBERAL-SOCIAL PETRU IN PARLIAMENT: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/06/15/#post-394067

-- ONE YEAR OF THE REPRIVATIZATION COMMISSION - A POSITIVE BALANCE - headline in DGP.

-- TIMMERMANS MUST COOL DOWN, PIS MUST YIELD - Tomasz Pietryga on the front page of RZ: “A keen observer, like many PiS politicians, knows perfectly well that beyond the ideological layer, there is no serious justification for the personnel reset in the Supreme Court. Nothing has happened in recent years to undermine trust or justify its devastation. Slogans about purging Themis of the remnants of the PRL do not stand up to reality. The reform of the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) was supposed to democratize elections within the independent judicial community, but it ended in a severe conflict when political ambitions prevailed.” http://www.rp.pl/Unia-Europejska/306149892-Chrabota-Pietryga-Timmermans-musi-ochlonac-PiS-ustapic.html

-- COURTS DEPENDENT ON GANGSTERS AND LOBBYISTS - Tomasz Sakiewicz in GPC: “The problem is precisely that the courts are dependent: on gangsters, criminals, and all sorts of lobbyists, including politicians. Judicial reform should end this dependency and introduce real independence. A judge can only be dependent on the law and their own conscience. If introducing the rule of law and demanding that someone act for the good of others is considered making courts dependent, then perhaps the European Union truly doesn't understand what justice is.” https://gpcodziennie.pl/91801-niezawisliodprawaiuczciwosci.html

-- THE GREATEST DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY ARE ITS GREATEST OPPONENTS - Tomasz Walczak in SE: “Human nature is perverse. The most conservative politicians turn out to be the greatest lechers, and the greatest defenders of democracy its greatest opponents. If it's not MP Pięta, then the liberal circles provide us with more than enough evidence of this.”

-- ACCUSING THE LEFT OF WANTING TO SPEAK IN ITS OWN VOICE IS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF DEMOCRATIC RULES - WALCZAK AGAIN: “Accusing the left of wanting to speak in its own voice and not buying into the Manichean division of the world into forces of good and evil promoted by POPiS is not only a misunderstanding of democratic rules but also sheer political stupidity. PiS will not be removed from power by any poorly conceived popular uprising of democrats, nor by any civic coalitions. Beyond the slogan of driving Kaczyński out, they have no demands that are attractive to society, and the polarization of the political scene into two tribes means that the vast majority of voters would rather desert than take sides. PiS's problem, however, could be higher turnout, which can only be ensured by pluralism. It's strange that the 'democrats' from the anti-PiS camp need this explained to them.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/tomasz-walczak-komentuje-demokratyczna-bigoteria-anty-pis-aa-yLYf-FCnk-VyJY.html

-- HALF OF ONE'S SALARY CANNOT GO TOWARDS HOUSING - JAN ŚPIEWAK in conversation with Wojciech Jakóbik on Biznesalert: “Housing is too expensive. Cities should offer long-term rental apartments with regulated low rents. Half of one's salary cannot go towards housing. This will also civilize the private rental market. It cannot be that you can lose your place of residence overnight because the owner sent their daughter to study.”

-- HGW CUT DOWN A QUARTER OF A MILLION TREES - ŚPIEWAK:”We need to put a stop to wild urbanization. All green areas must be protected. Warsaw also needs to be made greener. A quarter of a million trees were cut down during the current mayor's tenure. We want to bring back tree-lined avenues and shrubs. Every major street should be lined with mature trees, not sticks that provide no shade. A social committee should be established to involve businesses in funding such trees, which are, of course, expensive. Businesses are starting to understand that they benefit from a thriving city.” http://biznesalert.pl/warszawa-wybory-samorzadowe-jan-spiewak-infrastruktura-smog/

– DEMOCRACY ONLY EXISTS WHEN THE CIVIC PLATFORM RULES? - Jan Śpiewak in SE: “I have the impression that for many commentators, democracy only exists when the Civic Platform rules, and preferably if it were the only party participating in elections. There is something tragic in the fact that we are still torn, as they used to say – between a sect and a mafia. And this sect increasingly behaves like a mafia, and the mafia increasingly like a sect. Take, for example, the homophobic attack by the Civic Platform on me…– Portals associated with PO released a meme where I am marrying Patryk Jaki, photoshopped as a transvestite (laughter). It's so stupid… People supporting PO also spread fake news about me. https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/wywiad-jan-spiewak-dla-wielu-demokracja-jest-tylko-wtedy-gdy-rzadzi-platforma-aa-db9H-kkpE-YCAP.html

-- DISMISSED HEAD OF TRADE UNIONS AT LOT ON PATHOLOGIES AT THE NATIONAL CARRIER: “The pathology in our company is best illustrated by the fact that we are a state-owned company, LOT is supposed to be our national pride, yet we don't even have a remuneration regulations. We are being pushed into self-employment, and the remuneration system is extremely piece-rate. Half of our salary components are variable, and a sole proprietorship that doesn't work doesn't earn. This leaves us with a choice: either come to work when sick and earn, jeopardizing flight safety, or don't come and don't earn, falling into financial difficulties.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,155287,23536447,zwolniona-szefowa-zwiazkow-zawodowych-w-pll-lot-od-stycznia.html?disableRedirects=true#mBoxNajcz

-- THE PRESIDENT IS GOWIN'S LAST HOPE - Iwona Szpala, Justyna Suchecka in GW: “The 'PC Order' and its allies meticulously note the deputy prime minister's behavior. For instance, that he was at Kaczyński's hospital and surely discussed the law. And that he behaved awkwardly at the government meeting. – Imagine, he started invoking the president's support. Everyone looked on with indignation – reports our interlocutor from PiS. – He even referred to the president's late mother [she was part of the scientific staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences]. He had no right to do that, the ministers felt scandalized.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23542333,jesli-prezes-kaczynski-nie-wesprze-gowina-jego-sztandarowy.html

-- REFORMER GOWIN AND HIS CHEAP KNOWLEDGE ASSEMBLY LINE - Maciej Gdula in conversation with Michał Sutowski: “Because foreign journals are ranked higher, which naturally strengthens the research perspectives created in the center countries that are recognized as universal and international – instead of local, innovative ones. The reform thus turns us into subcontractors of global science, treating universities like large assembly plants, instead of seeing them as factories with their own R&D departments. I see this in the strategies of my colleagues publishing abroad: they adapt their research to external expectations, and they only regret that the knowledge generated does not fully reflect the Polish context. During one of the habilitation proceedings, a researcher frankly admitted to me that she was forced to use definitions of precarity that were completely unsuited to our country – otherwise, it would be impossible to compare them. She wanted to show the Polish specificity of the problem, but no one is interested in that in international journals.” http://krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/reforma-uniwersytetu-gowin-gdula-wywiad/

-- MORAWIECKI WANTS TO GROW INTO HIS IMAGE - Michał Szułdrzyński in RZ: “But the current prime minister's situation is not that rosy. His rambling speeches occasionally bring him into trouble. With his statement about an organized crime group in a Krakow court, made in a rather weak interview for 'Gazeta Polska,' the prime minister provoked the fury of judicial circles. And the ruling camp already has serious problems with the judiciary. After all, the dispute with Brussels over the rule of law procedure has not been resolved. Within the government, an unresolved conflict between Morawiecki and Zbigniew Ziobro still smolders, which is a challenge for the entire ruling camp.” http://www.rp.pl/Analizy/306149899-Szuldrzynski-Morawiecki-chce-dorosnac-do-wizerunku.html&template=restricted

-- JACEK GĄDEK ON THE PLAN TO THWART THE REFERENDUM IN THE SENATE - writes on gazeta.pl: “In the described scenario, the PiS club in the Senate, during the vote on the referendum, would split: some would abstain, and some would support it, but there would still be a slight shortage of votes for an absolute majority. As a result, Duda's initiative would be thrown in the trash, and PiS would be able to argue that due to a lack of discipline in this vote, senators voted according to their own convictions. A staged situation that gives the impression of improvisation and freedom. And that in the end, there was a slight shortage of votes for an absolute majority? The narrative suggests itself: well, democracy, free voting, so let the president not be offended.” http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,23539152,piec-powodow-dla-ktorych-referendum-dudy-nie-ma-sensu-w-pis.html

-- WARZECHA CRITICALLY ON THE REFERENDUM:“Political forecasts are known to be risky, but I will take the risk nonetheless: Andrzej Duda has already burned himself out before the race even started. And through his own fault. The worst part is that he must still start the race, because he has already invested too much in it. It's a shame, because in this way, a serious debate about changing the constitutional model will be buried for years.” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/lukasz-warzecha-100-pytan-na-100-lecie-niepodleglosci-aa-ZF6U-7SVL-Kkmz.html

-- MONIKA OLEJNIK - A REFERENDUM WOULD BE A COMPROMISE - writes in GW: “President Kaczyński could easily take revenge on the president for his insubordination last year and agree to a referendum, and then it would be a great compromise for Andrzej Duda and over a hundred million wasted for nothing.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75968,23541007,prezydent-pyta-i-bladzi-goscinne-wystepy-w-piatek-olejnik.html#Z_BoxGWImg

-- WOJCIECH MUCHA ON THE SUCCESSFUL MOBILIZATION OF POLONIA - writes in GPC: “For some it is just a compromise, for others a victory. Regardless of how one looks at the recently concluded case of the Katyń monument on the Hudson River, it is certain that it showed the strength and diplomatic capabilities of American Polonia. And the ability to cooperate with diplomats.”

-- PURCHASING CHAOS IN THE ARMY - Marek Kozubal in RZ: “For the Ministry of National Defence, 'benchmarks of independence' are more important than new helicopters.” http://www.rp.pl/Analizy/306149900-Zakupowy-chaos-w-polskiej-armii.html

-- SE ON SEAFOOD IN PARLIAMENT: “Marshal Kuchciński ordered 15 kilograms of squid, 25 kg each of mussels and scallops, 220 kg of shrimp, and also 50 kg of seafood mix, which will likely include the infamous octopuses. The cherry on top will be caviar, of which as much as 5 kilograms were ordered!” https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/polityka/marszalek-sejmu-dba-o-podniebienia-poslow-kuchcinski-kupuje-im-kawior-malze-i-krewetki-aa-U7Gy-wqZ7-rF7h.html