-- WEEKEND MARKED BY TOTAL CHAOS IN GOVERNMENT REGARDING EVACUATIONS OF POLES FROM ISRAEL: -- MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, JUNE 15, 7:14 PM: As we reported, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not conducting a "commercial evacuation" from Israel. Our actions are coordinated with our EU and NATO allies, who are not currently conducting an evacuation. Israel's land borders are open. Decisions will be made depending on the situation. -- HEAD OF THE CHANCELLERY OF THE PRIME MINISTER, JUNE 15, 7:46 PM: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organizing the evacuation of Polish citizens from the Middle East. Both military and civilian flights are prepared, provided conditions allow. Return to Poland is free of charge. -- Following Hamas's attack on Israel in October 2023, Poland organized a comprehensive evacuation operation codenamed NEON. The evacuation began almost immediately after the escalation of the conflict. Military aircraft, including C-130 Hercules and Boeing 737, were sent to Israel. The evacuation for Polish citizens and their immediate families was free of charge. -- BARTOSZEWSKI: WE, AS THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RECKLESS BEHAVIOR OF OUR BELOVED COMPATRIOTS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/06/16/ -- ACCORDING TO "RZECZPOSPOLITA'S" FINDINGS, THE CURRENT FAVORITE TO TAKE OVER AS PRESIDENT OF NIK (Supreme Audit Office) IS THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS, MACIEJ BEREK - MICHAŁ KOLANKO IN RZ: “There is much indication that Kierwiński will remain in the cabinet, although he may receive a completely different, much broader scope of duties – for example, in the area of economy or energy.” https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art42531801-koalicja-szykuje-sie-do-wyboru-szefa-nik-kto-ma-najwieksze-szanse -- WHAT THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS DONE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IS WORRYING. WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH THE IDEOLOGICAL OVERLAY IN THE GREEN DEAL POLICY IS UNSUSTAINABLE - SAYS KRZYSZTOF PAWIŃSKI, WHO HAS SUCCESSFULLY MANAGED THE MASSPEX GROUP FOR YEARS, OFTEN CALLED "POLISH NESTLE" IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MACIEJ BEDNAREK IN GW: “What the Union has done for European economic competitiveness is worrying. What we are doing with the ideological overlay in the Green Deal policy is unsustainable. Our Polish experiences with Russia were not heeded, and we have a war in Ukraine. The experiences of Eastern European countries with a centrally planned economy are not heeded in the EU, and we have the ideological overlay that we have. Regulatory diarrhea starts at the EU level and is continued at the level of member state parliaments. This is not just a Polish peculiarity. It is similar in other countries. I know what I'm talking about, because we do business abroad.” -- THE WAY ECONOMIC PROCESSES ARE MANAGED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION LOOKS NICE, BUT IT IS A DECEPTION. IT WAS SIMILAR WITH COMMUNISM - PAWIŃSKI, CEO OF MASSPEX, CONTINUES IN AN INTERVIEW WITH BEDNAREK IN GW: “An example? I hear that my bigger government, the European Union, wants to postpone my reporting obligation under ESG, which is how my company's activities affect the environment. The obligation has not yet been fully imposed on me, and the EU says that the relief for me will be that they will move it by two years. This is nonsense and that's how it should be talked about. The time has come to deal with the vision of an economy controlled by a grand planner. The way economic processes are managed in the European Union looks nice, but it is a deception. It was similar with communism.” -- THIS EXAMPLE IS GOOD BECAUSE IT ILLUSTRATES THE PEAK OF STUPIDITY. IF WE LOOK AT THE ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY OF PLASTIC PROCESSING, NOTHING ADDS UP. CAPS ATTACHED TO BOTTLES COST THE BEVERAGE INDUSTRY IN EUROPE EIGHT BILLION EUROS - PAWIŃSKI FROM MASSPEX CONTINUES IN GW: “This example is good because it illustrates the peak of stupidity. If we look at the entire philosophy of plastic processing, nothing adds up. Caps attached to bottles cost the bottling industry in Europe eight billion euros. This includes the costs of rebuilding every mold, retooling machines. Moreover, these caps are a fraction of a gram heavier because they have this tether. The effect is that we use 50-150 thousand tons more plastic so that this cap can dangle around the bottle. If anyone sees any sense and wisdom of a grand planner in this solution, they are mistaken. There is no grand, wise planner. This is an example of bureaucracy detached from reality.” https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177151,32013617,prezes-grupy-maspex-chce-panstwa-pomocnego-a-nie-produkujacego.html -- THE BELIEF IS ROOTED IN SOCIETY THAT PIS (Law and Justice party) GAVE MONEY, AND PO (Civic Platform party) TAKES IT AWAY. THE CONVICTION HAS AWAKENED IN PEOPLE THAT THE PLATFORM'S POLICY FROM 2011-2015 CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO THE PRESENT TIMES, BECAUSE DONALD TUSK IS RULING AGAIN - SAYS PROF. EWA MARCINIAK, POLITICAL SCIENTIST, HEAD OF CBOS (Public Opinion Research Center), IN AN INTERVIEW WITH ELIZA OLCZYK IN RZ. -- TRZASKOWSKI'S CAMPAIGN STAFF DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE ARCHITECTURE OF MODERN MEDIA. AS IF THEY STOPPED AT THE STAGE OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA - PROF. MARCINIAK CONTINUES AT OLCZYK: “Another reason for the defeat is that Trzaskowski's campaign staff did not understand the architecture of modern media. As if they stopped at the stage of traditional media: television, press, possibly radio. Meanwhile, today, society's media diet is extremely diverse and is based on the principle of fast food. No one nowadays waits until lunchtime for a solid meal, but eats something quickly when hungry. It's the same with information: people, on their way to work, check TikTok, during lunch break – X. No one waits until 7:30 PM to watch the news. No one wants to spend a lot of time on information either.” -- THEY SAID: TELEVISION, TELEVISION, AND THEY ACTED IN TELEVISION - PROF. MARCIUNIAK STILL AT OLCZYK IN RZ: “They said: television, television, and they acted in television. It's as if an experienced social media specialist was missing. In terms of using marketing tools related to new and social media, Karol Nawrocki's campaign team was excellent. Algorithms boosted their posts and made their content have huge reach. And reach was crucial in this election campaign.” https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art42518331-prof-ewa-marciniak-karol-nawrocki-okazal-sie-mniejszym-zlem -- "THE RULING COALITION DID NOT GIVE PEOPLE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE" – IN THE PODCAST DRUGI RZUT OKA, ANNA WÓJCIK TALKS WITH MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI: “The ruling coalition did not give people hope for the future. Despite a certain shift towards social democracy, reforms that had real social potential were not promoted.” Such as the already introduced valorization of 800 plus or the Active Parent program, widow's pension, which comes into effect on July 1, or the support benefit.” https://oko.press/dlaczego-trzaskowski-przegral -- A TURN TO THE RIGHT IS A MISTAKE. TUSK IS WRONG, THERE IS NO ELECTORATE TO BE FOUND THERE - PROF. RADOSŁAW MARKOWSKI IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JAKUB MAJMUREK IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Trzaskowski was looking for an electorate where there wasn't one, and by turning to the right, he alienated groups such as educated, resourceful women – he lost about a million such voters. Meanwhile, examples from recent elections in the USA, Canada, or Austria show that educated women are the biggest bastion of democracy – while men tend to vote for the populist right. Women still voted for Trzaskowski in the majority – 52.8 to 47.2 percent – but not in sufficient numbers to secure his victory.” -- TUSK RETURNED TO POLAND AFTER 10 YEARS OF ABSENCE AND SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH THE SAME PEOPLE AS IN 2007. THE PRIME MINISTER IS PROBABLY HOLY CONVINCED THAT POLISH SOCIETY IS DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE - MARKOWSKI CONTINUES AT MAJMUREK: “I think that this idea to turn to the right in the campaign stemmed primarily from the way Donald Tusk and his entourage think. Tusk returned to Poland after 10 years of absence and surrounded himself with the same people as in 2007. The Prime Minister is probably holy convinced that Polish society is deeply conservative. This is a baseless belief, because the results of the best research actually show that this is not the case.” -- WE OBSERVE A SIMILAR PROCESS IN THE STATES, WHERE SOME WHITE AMERICANS SUDDENLY START TO FEAR THAT THEY WILL CEASE TO BE THE MAJORITY, SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS HAPPENING WITH THE "CATHOLIC POLE" HERE - MARKOWSKI CONTINUES: “We observe a similar process in the States, where some white Americans suddenly start to fear that they are ceasing to be the majority, that their culture is ceasing to be dominant, and they are mobilizing around Trump, who promises to stop this process. In Poland, something like this is happening with the "Catholic Pole." Data from the Institute for Church Statistics Research shows that over the last 30 years, we have seen a slow but significant decline in religiosity in Poland, that Catholicism is losing its status as something absolutely norm-creating for the national community. This rallies those attached to religion – increasingly fewer in number – around a party promising to delay, or even stop, these changes.” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2303639,1,prof-markowski-dla-polityki-skret-w-prawo-to-blad-tusk-sie-myli-tam-nie-ma-co-szukac-elektoratu.read?src=mt -- THE COALITION IS QUARRELING, TUSK'S TRICKS ARE WORKING WORSE AND WORSE - RAFAŁ KALUKIN IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Only that's not enough anymore. Today, there is no doubt that this team will be judged by tangible results of governance, and being a barrier against the recurrence of PiS rule will not be enough. It would be advisable to reform the dysfunctional way the coalition is managed and to think more strategically. But will Tusk, in the later period of his career, be able to abandon old habits? His current tricks are working worse and worse, and there are just over two years left.” -- UPON SUCH A UNEQUIVOCAL DECLARATION OF DISOBEDIENCE, THE PRIME MINISTER WAS SAID TO HAVE FALLEN SILENT - KALUKIN CONTINUES: “But this guarantee has just ceased to be valid, and the credit of trust has largely evaporated. What Tusk was openly supposed to hear now during the summit. More or less in the tone that partners will no longer obey him in everything, and if he threatens them with accelerated elections, then so be it, because they are already reconciled with the vision of losing representation in the Sejm. And if the prime minister is in such a hurry to land alone between PiS and Konfederacja, then that's his business. Upon such an unequivocal declaration of disobedience, the prime minister was said to have fallen silent.” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2303635,1,porachunki-po-wyborach-koalicja-sie-kloci-patenty-tuska-dzialaja-coraz-gorzej-czy-porzuci-dawne-nawyki.read -- SINCE 2015, THEY HAVE BEEN LOSING ELECTIONS ONE AFTER ANOTHER AND HAVE NOT THE SLIGHTEST REFLECTION THAT IT IS THEIR FAULT AND RESPONSIBILITY. PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK CALLED FOR ANY CRITICISM TO BE FORMULATED QUIETLY. I HAVE FORMULATED THIS CRITICISM QUIETLY FOR YEARS, BUT NOW IS THE TIME WHEN WE NEED TO SPEAK OUT LOUDLY - JOANNA MUCHA IN AN INTERVIEW WITH BARTOSZ TREDER IN ONET: “I will not name anyone by name. My assessment of the Platform's campaign team's functioning is based on many years of observation. Nothing changes there. Since 2015, they have been losing elections one after another and have not the slightest reflection that it is their fault and responsibility. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called for any criticism to be formulated quietly.” -- IF THE GOVERNMENT STARTS TO THINK OF ITSELF AS GREAT, IT IS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE - MUCHA CONTINUES IN ONET: “A situation where the government is pleased with itself, and the people are not pleased with the government, is dramatically dangerous. If the government starts to think of itself as great, it is on a slippery slope. I warn against this kind of thinking.” -- THE PLATFORM IS A PARTY THAT HAS A DEEPLY ROOTED BELIEF THAT IT IS RIGHT, AND THAT IS ENOUGH - MUCHA STILL AT TREDER IN ONET: “The Platform is an elitist party and does not understand that the rebellion that we have been observing for a decade worldwide is a rebellion against elites. Meanwhile, the Platform is a party that has a deeply rooted belief that it is right, and that is enough. And if it is right, then it has a mandate to govern. Even the prime minister said in his exposé, 'I also believed that the truth would defend itself.' At the same time, people talk about the betrayal of elites, about elites seeing and hearing only themselves and acting only for themselves.” https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/joanna-mucha-ostrzega-rzad-donalda-tuska-to-rownia-pochyla-wywiad/p16ms67,79cfc278 -- A QUIET WARRIOR - PIOTR GURSZTYN ON PAWEŁ SZEFERNAKER - WRITES IN TYGODNIK SIECI: “In the shadow of Karol Nawrocki's presidential election victory lies the spectacular success of another man – Paweł Szefernaker, the campaign manager, without whom it is difficult to imagine the right-wing candidate's triumph. His important role does not end there. A new task awaits him now. No less important, although Szefernaker himself prefers to operate without publicity and drawing attention to himself. After the election victory, the former campaign manager for Karol Nawrocki did not particularly want to go to the presidential palace. He preferred to stay in the Sejm. Likewise, another key participant in the election campaign wanted to stay there – Przemysław Czarnek. He also was in no hurry to go to the palace. However, both yielded to the persuasion and arguments from both the president-elect and the party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński.” -- LOYAL, DOES NOT SEEK THE LIMELIGHT - GURSZTYN CONTINUES ON SZEFERNAKER: “Szefernaker is different – primarily loyal. He is also a person who avoids intrigue and readily cooperates with others. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he is a humble man, especially compared to the behavior of most other politicians. This means he has no bitter enemies, he is liked or at least appreciated, thanks to which he has not fallen victim to any particularly dangerous intrigues. The fact that he does not seek the limelight and does not promote himself is also why he is highly valued by the party leader. Jarosław Kaczyński likes Paweł Szefernaker and trusts him.” https://wpolityce.pl/tygodniksieci/732305-cichy-wojownik-jest-nadzieja-na-powtorzenie-sukcesu -- THE WEEKEND CONGRESS OF NATIONALISTS HAD A BUILT-IN ZONE FOR PARENTS WITH CHILDREN - AS RN ACTIVIST NADZIEJA JASKÓŁKA WROTE: “Children are increasingly being excluded from public spaces; restaurants without children, weddings without children, the promotion of childlessness in various forms are no longer unusual. Parents of young children, especially mothers, unfortunately often experience unpleasant comments, looks, judgments. Perhaps children are currently the most discriminated social group. And without sugarcoating, in the nationalist environment, it's as if you've entered another world. We ourselves, not having the opportunity to leave our son with someone close, take him to RN events without fear.” https://x.com/nadzieja_m/status/1934244864494870591 -- BIRTHDAYS: Witold Gadomski, Marian Piłka.