-- POLITICAL AGENDA FOR FRIDAY: PIŚ VICE PRESIDENTS' CONFERENCE IN THE MORNING, MORAWIECKI IN RACIBÓRZ LATER - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- LIST OF FREE MEDICINES FOR PEOPLE OVER 65 MAY BE CUT BY HALF. ONLY THE CHEAPEST WILL REMAIN - JUDYTA WATOŁA IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: "The Ministry of Health plans to cut the list of free medications for children under 18 and people aged 65+. Only medications for which the National Health Fund (NFZ) pays the least are to remain. However, the message to patients will be that they will benefit from the cuts, as savings will allow for reimbursement of new medications."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32580806,lista-darmowych-lekow-dla-osob-65-moze-byc-scieta-nawet-o-polowe.html

-- MARSHAL OF THE LUBELSKIE VOIVODESHIP HEADS TO THE OLYMPICS WITH HIS ENTOURAGE - JACEK BRZUSZKIEWICZ IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: "The Marshal, regional authorities, PiS councilors, officials. They are all going to the Olympic Games in Italy. The Polish Olympic Committee is paying. Previously, these same PiS politicians supported Radosław Piesiewicz's PKOl with over PLN 10 million."
https://lublin.wyborcza.pl/lublin/7,48724,32580711,marszalek-wojewodztwa-lubelskiego-ze-swoja-swita-rusza-na-igrzyska.html

-- TRUMP IS PLAYING FOR DIVISION AND TIGHTENING THE SCREWS ON THE KREMLIN. THE RUSSIANS ARE PREPARING FOR A BLACK SCENARIO - ONET: "According to Reuters reports, Russians are preparing to reduce oil exports to India by as much as 30%. In this scenario, it would seriously impact the Kremlin's ability to wage war with Ukraine."
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/kluczowy-partner-moze-porzucic-putina-trump-gra-na-rozlam-i-dokreca-srube-kremlowi/7stsmcn,79cfc278

-- THE FOUR-YEAR WAR WITH UKRAINE IS EXHAUSTING RUSSIA'S ECONOMY. A NEW NUCLEAR ARMS RACE WITH THE USA, POSSIBLE AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE NEW START TREATY, COULD BE ITS UNDOING - RUSLAN SZOSZYN IN RZECZPOSPOLITA: "Even now, before the arms race has begun, the Kremlin spends a total of 38% of its federal budget on security services and the military (and Russia still spends six times less on armaments than the US). Trump may be testing the limits of the Putin regime's endurance."
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43757551-ruslan-szoszyn-koniec-new-start-to-zla-wiadomosc-dla-rosji-i-szansa-dla-donalda-trumpa

-- FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO POLAND MARK BRZEZINSKI BELIEVES THE DIGITAL TAX COULD HAVE GREATER CONSEQUENCES FOR POLISH-AMERICAN RELATIONS - GAZETA.PL: "Mark Brzezinski, in an interview with Polsat News, pointed to another contentious issue that, in his opinion, 'unnecessarily negatively impacts Polish-American relations.' 'President Trump made it clear that introducing such a tax would be an unfriendly act by a given country towards the United States,' noted Mark Brzezinski. 'Poles have created something incredible here in Poland over the last 30 years. It's about an attractive economy with local roots and global reach. It's truly worth protecting,' added the former American ambassador."
https://next.gazeta.pl/next/7,151243,32581133,nie-tylko-czarzasty-to-wywola-emocje-w-usa-byly-ambasador.html

-- KACZYŃSKI HAS PUT HIMSELF IN THE POSITION OF A LEADER WHOSE FATE DEPENDS ON AN ABSOLUTE DICTATOR, A NARCISSIST WHO IS AGGRESSIVE AND UNPREDICTABLE WHEN HE DOESN'T RECEIVE ENOUGH ADMIRATION - AGNIESZKA KUBLIK IN GAZETA WYBORCZA:
https://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,32578367,trump-zastawil-na-kaczynskiego-pulapke-i-to-niejedna.html

-- TWO DESTINATIONS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN. THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN: WHICH OF THESE JOURNEYS WILL WE EMBARK ON AFTER THE 2027 ELECTIONS - PIOTR PACEWICZ IN OKO.PRESS: "Czarzasty played the role of a skirmisher who revived the anti-American and thus pro-European narrative in Poland, but politics will continue to be conducted by Tusk and Nawrocki, while a weakened Kaczyński lurks in the background, all while they argue amongst themselves. The division will sharpen into – to use tourism language – two destinations: European and American. The question remains open: which of these journeys will we embark on after the 2027 elections."
https://oko.press/czarzasty-kontra-ambasador-trumpa-cztery-wesela-i-niewielkie-ryzyko-jednego-pogrzebu

-- THE SERVICES, THROUGH THEIR SPOKESPERSON, ASSURE THAT EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER, BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS: ON WHAT BASIS? - PIOTR ZAREMBA IN INTERIA: "When Marcin Romanowski and Zbigniew Ziobro took refuge in Hungary, government propaganda began to recall that Viktor Orbán, politically friendly with Vladimir Putin, was the host. Against this backdrop, Czarzasty's potential ties are potentially much more concrete. The services, through their spokesperson, assure that everything is in order, but the question remains: on what basis? Czarzasty himself has not commented on the substance of the accusation. He confines himself to portraying himself as a victim and counter-attacking, demanding that President Nawrocki's past be investigated at the National Security Bureau (RBN) session."

-- AND WHO, WITH SUCH A CEMENTED POLITICAL DIVISION, WILL ACTUALLY VERIFY IT? - ZAREMBA CONTINUES: "There is no symmetry here with Nawrocki's football hooligan arrangements, nor with his work at the Grand Hotel in Sopot, which he wants to discuss, recalling campaign revelations, Czarzasty. Those are merely parables about the distant past of someone who has been checked by the services several times. However, the ties connecting Czarzasty with Swietłana Czestnych through the Mościcki Hotel in Spa concern a very concrete present. How sensitive is it? And who, with such a cemented political division, will actually verify it?"
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-wlodzimierz-czarzasty-powinien-byc-sprawdzony-a-nie-bedzie,nId,22595287

-- CZARZASTY'S DEXTEROUS LEADERSHIP – ASPIRING POLITICIANS SHOULD STUDY IT LIKE FUTURE MANAGERS STUDY BUSINESS CASE STUDIES AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL - LESZEK JAŻDŻEWSKI IN INTERIA: "The dexterous leadership of the leader of the Left, the unification with Biedroń's Wiosna and its subsequent de facto absorption, while simultaneously pacifying internal dissidents from the former SLD, all of this was a true masterpiece of party maneuvering, which aspiring politicians should study like future managers study business case studies at Harvard Business School."

-- INSTEAD OF A GOLDEN-TONGUED PREACHER, A CLEVER RED FOX OCCUPIES THE MARSHAL'S SEAT - JAŻDŻEWSKI CONTINUES: "Today, instead of a golden-tongued preacher, a clever red fox occupies the marshal's seat. And – as he has shown with several strong moves – he knows how to use this position. For the good of the coalition, his own party, and himself. The contest for the leadership of the Left turned out to be a formality and a feudal tribute paid to Czarzasty. Unless he resigns from the position himself, there is no one today who could realistically threaten him. At most, demographics – his and the voters'."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-czy-komuch-moze-byc-marszalkiem-sejmu,nId,22595198