state of play: 06/27/2018

STATE OF PLAY: Karnowski on the Necessity of Correction, Szułdrzyński: It's a Signal that the Prime Minister Has an Increasingly Stronger Position in the Power Camp, GW: PAD Complains About TVP

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-- CAREFULLY AGREED PLAN IN THE TRIANGLE OF THE PIS CHAIRMAN, PRIME MINISTER, AND PRESIDENT - 300POLITYKA: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/06/27/

-- WE MUST MAKE A CORRECTION - Michał Karnowski: “The outcry after the amendment to the IPN act revealed to us how much the narrative about Poland's fate during World War II was falsified. Half a century of communism, nearly 30 years of a submissive Third Republic allowed for the development of anti-Polish propaganda, an attempt to shift the crimes of the true perpetrators of the Holocaust onto the nation of victims, which fought Nazism from the first to the last day. It is sad, bitter, humiliating. But it is better to face the truth than to live in illusions. We must make a correction. But we are regaining room for maneuver. However, we cannot abandon the issue.”

-- KARNOWSKI ON HOW POLES NEVER ACCEPTED HOSTILE LANGUAGE TOWARDS JEWS AND ISRAEL:“Certainly, some national circles will see this as their momentum, a moment when they can distance themselves from the United Right, point out the difference. But we must remember that Polish society, except for very, very narrow circles, has never accepted hostile language towards Jews or Israel after 1989. Those who think otherwise often fall prey to their own propaganda.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/401399-to-gorzka-korekta-ale-wazne-by-nadal-bic-sie-o-prawde

-- THE AMENDMENT SHOWS MORAWIECKI'S INCREASINGLY STRONGER POSITION - writes Michał Szułdrzyński in RZ:“But the scale of this event is all the greater. It also shows Mateusz Morawiecki's position. The initiative, after all, came from him. This is a signal that the Prime Minister truly has an increasingly stronger position in the power camp. If he managed to convince the PiS leadership and Jarosław Kaczyński himself to change regulations that he considered a barrier to improving Poland's international situation, it is a sign that, firstly, Morawiecki is not a puppet and truly has a lot to say in PiS, and secondly, that the PiS chairman counts on him, since he allows him to come up with such an initiative. In the conflict between moderate and radical camps, it's 1:0 for the moderates.” http://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/180629493-Konflikt-z-UE-Granice-grillowania-Polski.html&cid=44&template=restricted

-- A VOTE FOR WAŁĘSA, A VOTE FOR ADAMOWICZ - KACPER PŁAŻYŃSKI in an interview with Jacek Nizinkiewicz in RZ: “For me, it's a strange situation that one political camp has as many as two candidates in one city. I felt even stranger listening to Mr. Wałęsa's inaugural speech, in which he called for his party, Platforma, to be removed from power in the city. Because that's what the call to overthrow the 'developers' republic' boils down to. This republic was created by PO and its people, with Paweł Adamowicz at the head. It's all very theatrical, paper-thin, and unbelievable. I don't want to judge Mr. Jarosław Wałęsa. I don't know him, I don't know how he will conduct his campaign. Any reasonable observer of the Gdańsk political scene realizes that a vote for Wałęsa is a vote for things to remain as they were. Therefore, it is a vote for Adamowicz.”

-- RESIDENTS DON'T BENEFIT FROM WEALTH - PŁAŻYŃSKI continues in RZ: "Only narrow groups with morally dubious interests benefit from the city's relative wealth, not the residents. The excluded are increasing. This needs to change. The city needs to develop faster, smarter, and in a just manner." http://www.rp.pl/Rzecz-o-polityce/306269930-Kacper-Plazynski-PiS-to-jedyna-ideowa-partia-w-Polsce.html

-- 19TH CENTURY MONUMENT IN RUINS, RENOVATION IMPOSSIBLE DUE TO OFFICIAL ERROR AND REPRIVATIZATION - Michał Wojtczak in Stołeczna: http://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,23596465,zabytkowa-kamienica-ktora-zawalila-sie-w-nocy-nie-zostanie.html

-- MYRCHA'S CONNECTIONS WITH GETBACK WORRY PO: “Today's arrest by the Central Anticorruption Bureau of the President of Polski Dom Maklerski (PDM) in connection with the GetBack affair is causing sleepless nights for Platforma Obywatelska politicians. Why? All because the chairwoman of PDM's supervisory board is Dorota Myrcha, the sister-in-law and close associate of MP Arkadiusz Myrcha from Platforma Obywatelska. It is possible that as an important figure in the company, she may soon be questioned as a witness.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/401262-rodzina-posla-myrchy-i-afera-getback-mozliwe-przesluchania

-- JĘDRZEJ BIELECKI ON THE LIMITS OF GRILLING POLAND - writes in RZ: “The Union should draw conclusions from this painful experience and show as much flexibility as possible in its dispute with Poland. This is not the time to alienate another Union country unnecessarily, especially one as important as Poland.” http://www.rp.pl/Komentarze/180629493-Konflikt-z-UE-Granice-grillowania-Polski.html&template=restricted

-- WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, WE DO WHAT WE DID WHEN WE WERE YOUNG - Piotr Skwieciński: “Creating an Citizens' Committee is similar. When we don't know what to do, let's do what we did when we were young. It worked then, and we had fun doing it. So now if we do the same thing, it will probably work again, and we'll feel good about it. And we'll be young and beautiful again. Like then. When I read online how my peers, involved in the anti-communist opposition in the 1980s, and later in politics (on the liberal side), in the special services, or in the media in the Third Republic, reacted to the establishment of the Committee with Wałęsa 2.0, I sensed those emotions very clearly.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/401374-skad-sie-wzial-komitet-obywatelski-przy-lechu-walesie

-- EUROZONE BUDGET IS A FAKE - says Varoufakis to Michał Sutowski: “There is no parallel budget, it's just a fake. Let's start with the fact that Macron had some good ideas for changes last year. For me, they were too moderate and proposed too late, but I admit they were going in the right direction: a common eurozone budget, with a common finance minister and a parliamentary assembly that would control this minister and this budget…” http://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/ue/warufakis-sutowski-wywiad-2018/

-- PIOTR WÓJCIK IN GPC ON THE COLONIZATION OF THE EPP:“It would also be beneficial for the EPP itself, as the faction would be strengthened, perhaps even by several dozen MEPs from the ruling party of the fifth (after Brexit) largest country in the EU. Of course, PO, which is a member of the EPP, will put up a veto, but for effective negotiators, this should not be a problem.” https://gpcodziennie.pl/92656-skolonizowaceuropejskapartieludowa.html

-- PRESIDENT DUDA COMPLAINS ABOUT TVP - Agata Kondzińska, Agnieszka Kublik in GW: “The National Broadcasting Council's spokesperson informed 'Wyborcza' that the complaint against 'Wiadomości' was sent on Monday by the Head of the Presidential Chancellery, Halina Szymańska. According to our information, the Palace rejects the argument in its letter to the KRRiT that TVP did not have time to edit the report – the chancellery points out that commercial stations managed to report on the president's conference (it started at 3:30 PM). Nor is it satisfied that the information was presented in 'Wiadomości' the next day. According to our sources, it was an 'attempt to save the situation.' http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23599064,prezydent-duda-skarzy-sie-na-wiadomosci-tvp.html

-- PIS TAKES ON GARBAGE - title in Fakt.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Gabriela Masłowska, Władysław Ortyl, Michał Ciechowski, Janina Okrągły, Andrzej Długosz.


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