Today's State of Play

STATE OF PLAY: Szostkiewicz Doubts Polexit, PiS Strateg: Polexit Will Be Like Greenland, Nobody Remembers What It Was About

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-- NAWROCKI ADDRESSES TUSK ON ECJ: SUCH A POLISH POSITION SHOULD BE PRESENTED DURING THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, BOGUCKI ASKED ABOUT SWEARING-IN OF CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL JUDGES: FOR NOW, IT SEEMS THERE IS NO ONE TO ADMINISTER IT TO - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- THE FIRST AI WAR - NIALL FERGUSSON IN THE FREE PRESS: "The war with Iran is even more futuristic than the war in Ukraine. Not only are both sides using drones, but many precise US and Israeli strikes are being carried out on targets selected by artificial intelligence. This could go down in history as the first war involving artificial intelligence."
https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-this-is-how-the-iran

-- I DON'T QUITE BELIEVE IN POLEXIT, HOWEVER - ADAM SZOSZKIEWICZ ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA'S PORTAL: "By nominating Nawrocki as president first, and now Czarnka as prime minister, Kaczyński wants to change the direction of travel in the name of his personal obsessions and complexes. Not so much to the East, but towards Catholic nationalism, of which Nawrocki is becoming the face. He feels safe and still effective here. However, I don't quite believe in Polexit. Not because they wouldn't want it, but because they wouldn't dare. This is their campaign slogan. After regaining power, they would forget about it, if only out of fear of the farmers who would lose EU subsidies, and of the younger generation who are accustomed to open borders and all the benefits they bring. They would also fear the resistance of entrepreneurs who do business using the EU's freedom of capital movement."
https://blog.polityka.pl/szostkiewicz/2026/03/14/nie-wierze-w-polexit/

-- HAIL POLEXIT - JAKUB BODZIONY IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: "Hail, Polexit. President Karol Nawrocki's veto on SAFE is much more than an attempt to block these funds. It is a blow to Poland's security – and no president has ever done this before. And the largest opposition party, which stands behind him, is consciously stoking anti-European hysteria, putting party interests above the state's interests. It's time to say it plainly: the right wing is on the path to Polexit."
https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2026/03/15/weto-nawrockiego-safe-polexit/

-- WITH POLEXIT, IT WILL BE LIKE WITH GREENLAND, IT SEEMED TWO MONTHS AGO THAT IT WAS A BIG TOPIC, AN EARTHQUAKE, AND TODAY FEW PEOPLE EVEN REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS ABOUT. ELECTION RESULTS WILL BE DECIDED BY EXISTENTIAL ISSUES AND HOPES FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT, FAITH IN A COHERENT PLAN - says one of the leading right-wing strategists in an off-the-record conversation with Stan Gry.

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-- ANOTHER YEAR OF INCREASING NFZ DEBT AND THE RISK OF LIMITING PATIENT ADMISSIONS OR POSTPONING PROCEDURES AHEAD OF US - KRZYSZTOF JABŁONOWSKI ON ZERO PORTAL: "The Ministry of Health wanted to save five billion PLN by delaying pay raises for hospital staff. Negotiations with trade unions ended without an agreement. The National Health Fund must find money for salaries. According to Mariusz Polak from RynekZdrowia.pl, another year of increasing NFZ debt and the risk of limiting patient admissions or postponing procedures lies ahead of us."
https://zero.pl/news/bez-porozumienia-w-sprawie-podwyzek-dla-pracownikow-szpitali-ministerstwo-zdrowia-chcialo-ich-opoznienia

-- BIRTHDAYS: Elżbieta Jakubiak, Zbigniew Girzyński, Ewa Tomczyk, Andrzej Rozenek.


 


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