-- EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS OF HOMELESS DOGS - AFTER ADOPTION, THE NEW OWNER WILL RECEIVE A PAINTING: The exhibition is an incredible opportunity to support the Azyl pod Psim Aniołem Foundation, which has been caring for abused and abandoned dogs for years, once again in an artistic setting. Michael Torzecki, a student of Starowieyski and the author of the project, has chosen several of them and painted beautiful portraits that can be purchased during the event. The entire proceeds will be donated to the Foundation to support all the four-legged residents of the shelter before the coming winter. The dogs featured in the paintings will also be present during the exhibition. You will have the opportunity to meet them, play with them, and most importantly – give them a new home. Additionally, the owner who successfully completes the adoption process will receive a portrait of their new pet as a gift. https://www.facebook.com/events/1188723727959409/

-- JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI AND LECH WAŁĘSA DISCUSSED BEFORE THE HEARING: https://300polityka.pl/live/2018/11/22/

-- 37 PAD, 36 PDT, 10 BIEDROŃ, 2ND ROUND 46 PAD, 44 PDT, VARIANT WITH BIEDROŃ: 49 PAD, 41 BIEDROŃ - RZ. POLL.

-- WILL PSL BUY A PIS MP FOR THE MARSHAL'S SEAT? - title in Fakcie.

-- YOU HAVE YOURSELVES TO BLAME FOR BEING REMOVED FROM GOVERNMENT IN THE SILESIAN VOIVODESHIP - JÓZEF KRZYK IN LOKALNA GW TO CIVIC PLATFORM POLITICIANS: “I know it's silly to mock someone who, like Andrzej Gołota, entered the ring for the championship belt and after the first gong took such strong blows that he fell to the canvas. But you know what I'll tell you? I have no sympathy for you at all! You have only yourselves to blame because you have proven to be political amateurs. You treat your political engagement as an addition to many other activities. You behave like a bored student in class who is just waiting for the last bell to run outside and play football. This is exactly what happened to you: you were kicked out – from the government of the Silesian Voivodeship – and you only have yourselves to thank for it.”

-- DO NOT REMIND OPPONENTS OF WHAT YOU ARE NOT FREE FROM YOURSELVES - KRZYK CONTINUES IN ŚLĄSKA GW: “Your cries about political corruption also amuse me. Politics, even in your execution, has never been free from dirty tricks, so do not remind your rivals of what you are not free from yourselves. The difference between you and PiS is that you have turned out, once again, to be lazier and less foresighted.” http://katowice.wyborcza.pl/katowice/7,35063,24197200,sejmik-wojewodztwa-slaskiego-zegnajcie-amatorzy-nastal-czas.html

-- PIS WITHDRAWS FROM REFORM - RZ front page.

-- PIS GIVES UP THE COURT - GW front page.

-- PIS'S JUDICIAL SURRENDER - DGP front page.

-- THEY SWELLED UP LIKE A BALLOON AND NOW HAVE TO YIELD AGAIN - title in Fakcie.

-- DGP WRITES THAT THE EC MAY WITHDRAW THE COMPLAINT - as Grzegorz Osiecki writes: “According to our information, the EC does not rule out that if the points contested in the complaint are removed, it may indeed withdraw it. Therefore, it is closely examining both the draft and how it is being processed. It also wants to know how the Supreme Court itself assesses the law.” https://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/polityka/artykuly/585697,kapitulacja-pis-sad-najwyzszy-tsue-gersdorf-nowelizacja.html

-- CLOSING THE FRONT WAS A BITTER POLITICAL NECESSITY - JACEK KARNOWSKI: “The announcement of the ECJ's decision just before the local elections was not a coincidence. Closing the front, where there was no hope for quick success, and which would have been used to fuel all those absurdities about 'Polexit,' was therefore a bitter political necessity.”

-- A BATTLE LOST, NOT A WAR - KARNOWSKI CONTINUES: “In total, therefore, 3/4 of the most difficult of all reforms, affecting the core of the system, has been implemented, and the remaining part will be completed after the elections – if the ruling camp wins, of course. Even without returning to the legislative solutions; Małgorzata Gersdorf's term ends in 2020, and the composition of the Supreme Court will be supplemented on an ongoing basis. Thus, the painful defeat in the Supreme Court case is a lost battle, not a defeat in the entire war. When evaluating this retreat, let's maintain the proper proportions.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/422197-mimo-kleski-w-sprawie-sn-34-reformy-zostalo-zrealizowane

-- PIS WILL SEEK TO HAVE THE CASE DISMISSED BY THE ECJ; IF THE PRIME MINISTER SUCCEEDS, IT WILL SIGNIFICANTLY LIMIT THE SCOPE OF CONFLICT WITH BRUSSELS - ANDRZEJ STANKIEWICZ: “By removing controversial provisions from the Supreme Court Act – essentially restoring its original wording – PiS wants to prevent such a turn of events. According to Onet's information, after the adoption of the law, the government will seek to have the proceedings before the ECJ dismissed. It will also request the Council of Europe – i.e., the leaders of EU countries – to partially terminate the control under Article 7 of the EU treaty, the so-called rule of law control procedure. This concerns the part related to Brussels' objections to the Supreme Court Act. If the Prime Minister succeeds, it would significantly limit the scope of conflict with Brussels. The procedure under Article 7 will still continue, but it will concern other elements of the legal system. For example, PiS's shortening of the terms of members of the National Council of the Judiciary, responsible for judicial appointments. In their place, PiS appointed its own people to control recruitment to the courts. – If we hadn't amended the Supreme Court Act, there would be no basis for seeking dismissal of the case before the ECJ and limiting the proceedings under Article 7 – says our source from the Prime Minister's circle.” https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/dlaczego-pis-wycofalo-sie-z-ustawy-o-sadzie-najwyzszym/zn7dqbx

-- THIS MEANS SIGNIFICANT TROUBLE FOR THE OPPOSITION IF THE CONFLICT WITH THE EU IS RESOLVED - JAKUB MAJMUREK: “However, if PiS manages this withdrawal maneuver skillfully, it could mean significant trouble for the opposition. Especially if the conflict with the European Commission is resolved. European elites have truly more serious problems than the rule of law in Poland – Trump's policy, Italy's budget, the rise of populist forces on the continent – and they may simply want to end the matter on relatively honorable terms. This would postpone the threat of hard, legal sanctions against Poland, although it would improve Poland's political position in the European Union to a small extent.”

-- THE NARRATIVE OF POLEXIT WILL NO LONGER MAKE MUCH SENSE - MAJMUREK CONTINUES: “If this happens, the bogeyman of Polexit, which worked perfectly in the local elections in the cities, will disappear. There would not have been such a turnout among the opponents of the ruling party if it weren't for Ziobro's completely ill-conceived motion to the Constitutional Tribunal to check the compliance of the Treaty on European Union with the Polish constitution, which sabotaged his own camp's campaign. The next two election campaigns – for the European and Polish parliaments – were also supposed to turn into a referendum on Poland's future in the EU. If Morawiecki returns to the European stage, such a narrative will not make much sense. The opposition, celebrating that PiS seems to be backing down from the demolition of the Supreme Court, should already be thinking about what else they want to offer Poles in a year. Simply saying every day that, unlike PiS, we are for Europe, might not be enough.” https://www.newsweek.pl/opinie/ustawa-o-sedziach-sn-juz-uchwalona-skad-sie-wzial-ten-spektakularny-zwrot-w-tyl/0b1h4vs

-- THIS AMENDMENT CANNOT BE ACCUSED OF CONTRADICTING EU LAW IN ANY WAY - EWA SIEDLECKA: “This amendment cannot be accused of contradicting the interim measures imposed by the ECJ in any way. Nor EU law in general. Thus, it can be said that with the adoption of the law, the problem presented in the European Commission's complaint will disappear. The question is whether the Commission will withdraw the complaint? Because there is no certainty that PiS – when, for example, it wins the next elections – will return to its ideas of removing judges from courts of any instance by shortening retirement age or introducing other regulations – such as a limit on years of service. The Commission may consider it in the interest of the Union for the Court to define the standards for maintaining the principle of the right to an impartial court. If the Commission withdraws the complaint, it will give PiS the opportunity to save face with its own voters who may be disappointed that they have not 'cleansed' the Supreme Court.”

-- PIS HAS RETREATED CLEVERLY - SIEDLECKA CONTINUES: “PiS has retreated. But cleverly. It will not 'recapture' the Supreme Court, but it has created two chambers there through which it can still achieve the goals it set for itself: control jurisprudence in electoral and other public cases, eliminate disobedient judges from the profession, intimidate them. The elimination of 'old' judges of the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court was not necessary at all. It was rather, characteristic of PiS, an element of revenge and a propagandistically won slogan of 'purification' from alleged 'judges of martial law.' A primarily symbolic action. What undoubtedly pains PiS in this is the fact that it has not regained the position of the First President of the Supreme Court.” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/1772340,1,opor-ma-sens-pis-cofnal-sie-w-sprawie-sadu-najwyzszego.read?src=mt

-- PIS IS ESCAPING FORWARD - Tomasz Pietryga in RZ: “With such a move, PiS is escaping forward. The dispute with EU institutions has begun to weigh on it in domestic politics. The accusation of Polexit is extremely mobilizing for the opposition's electorate. The new regulations will not only fulfill Luxembourg's demands arising from the interim measures. They go much further, restoring the old legal status.” https://www.rp.pl/Opinie/181129893-Ustawa-o-SN-PiS-chce-trwale-zakonczyc-spor-z-Bruksela---komentarz-Tomasza-Pietrygi.html

-- ZBIGNIEW JAGIEŁŁO ON THE NEED TO QUICKLY APPOINT A HEAD OF KNF: “To counteract the negative situation, it is necessary to appoint a new chairman of the Financial Supervision Authority quickly, as soon as possible. From a managerial perspective, this supervision is poorly constructed, and has been for many years, as this does not only concern the current term but also the previous one. The point is that since there are three main supervisory businesses – banking, insurance, and the capital market – each should have its own deputy chairman, and combining them is bad because the chairman often acts as an arbiter. Additionally, when we now see the interpenetration of technology with the broadly understood financial market, I would add a fourth deputy chairman for modern technologies, because they not only interpenetrate and technology companies are entering finance. Such a structure would then allow for better management of this institution.” https://m.interia.pl/biznes/news,2593641

-- PAWEŁ WOJTUNIK IN GW ON CBA IN KNF: “If the services and prosecution were always to wait for the arrival of suspected individuals, it would be a mockery of justice. I pose the question – if this matter concerned someone from the political opposition, or officials disliked by PiS, for example, myself or Krzysztof Bondaryk, former head of ABW, would the prosecution and services act just as slowly?” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,24197108,to-przeszukanie-jest-nie-do-obrony-byly-szef-cba-pawel-wojtunik.html

-- GRZEGORZ MIECUGOW WOULD BE CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY TODAY.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Filip Kaczmarek, Michał Fal, Waldemar Kuczyński, Tomasz Gruszecki, Barbara Czaplicka.