-- NFZ CUTS FUNDING FOR KEY DIAGNOSTIC TESTS - ANNA GORCZYCA IN GW: “MRI, CT scans, colonoscopies – treatment is impossible without them. The National Health Fund (NFZ) is reducing financing for excess services, and hospitals are warning that such decisions will delay diagnoses. Why is the system starting to cut back where the stakes are highest?”
https://rzeszow.wyborcza.pl/rzeszow/7,34962,32725423,nfz-tnie-finansowanie-kluczowych-badan-diagnostycznych-dyrektorzy.html

-- ANDRZEJ GWIAZDA TURNS 91.

-- ZGORZELSKI ANNOUNCES PSL PROJECT: FREE CITIZENS FROM POLLSTER ATTACKS ONE MONTH BEFORE ELECTIONS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-04-14/

-- MAGYAR DOES NOT WANT TO JOIN THE 90 BILLION LOAN FOR UKRAINE: “Orban negotiated Hungary's exemption, and I think it should stay that way. We have a difficult financial situation in the country.”
https://x.com/GoniecPL/status/2043782839670390887?s=20

-- MAGYAR ON RUSSIAN OIL: “Russia is here, Hungary is here. We will do everything to diversify, but that does not mean we will disconnect. We will always source oil as cheaply and safely as possible. Diversification is the safest.”
https://x.com/Buckarobanza/status/2043685945241661714?s=20

-- MAGYAR AND HIS ECONOMIC VISION. THE END OF THE FORINT IS COMING - JAKUB CEGLARZ IN BUSINESS INSIDER: “TISZA also announces the introduction of the euro to replace the forint. Although they promise broad consultations on this matter, the new authorities have already set a timeframe. This would happen by 2030, provided, of course, that the so-called convergence criteria are met (these include price stability and sound public finances).”
https://businessinsider.com.pl/gospodarka/peter-magyar-i-jego-pomysl-na-gospodarke-nadchodzi-koniec-forinta/2sysmqh

-- SO THAT TVN TELEVISION IS MORE OBJECTIVE, NOW THAT THE TRUMPISTS ARE TAKING IT OVER - A PIS POLITICIAN IN AGATA KONDZIŃSKA'S ARTICLE IN GW: “And although the strong support of the US Vice President, who called Donald Trump during an election rally so he could say he loved Orban, did not help, PiS is still counting on the US. – But not on rally performances, but on real help. We have been promised it – I hear from a PiS MP. And specifically? – I ask. – For example, that TVN television should be more objective, now that the Trumpists are taking it over – he retorts.” 

-- ZIOBRO WANTED KACZYŃSKI AND CZARNEK TO VISIT BUDAPEST - FURTHER IN KONDZIŃSKA'S REPORT IN GW: “As 'Wyborcza' has established, potential visits to Budapest by Jarosław Kaczyński and Przemysław Czarnek were discussed at Nowogrodzka street. Both were supposed to travel to Hungary at the time when US Vice President J.D. Vance arrived there with support for Orban. According to my sources, Zbigniew Ziobro was the originator of bringing Kaczyński and Czarnek.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32724891,pis-wspieral-orbana-do-konca-przy-nowogrodzkiej-omawiano-ewentualna.html

-- YES, I MEAN THE PRESIDENT AND THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL - ALTHOUGH ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE ENTITLED TO IMMUNITY, AS ARE THE PRESIDENT'S COLLEAGUES AND ALL PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THE TRIBUNAL. THE PENAL CODE KNOWS THE CONCEPT OF AIDING AND ABETTING - MINISTER OF JUSTICE WALDEMAR ŻUREK IN A CONVERSATION WITH TOMASZ ŻÓŁCIAK AND GRZEGORZ OSIECKI ON MONEY.PL: “We still need to consider whether this is not a crime. And that is on the table. By persons preventing a judge from performing their duties. This is influencing the composition of the court and the functioning of the body. Yes, I mean the president and the acting president of the Constitutional Tribunal – although one must remember that they are entitled to immunity, as are the president's colleagues and all persons employed in the Tribunal. The Penal Code knows the concept of aiding and abetting.”

-- IF CHARGES WERE FILED AGAINST HIM, THEN YES - ŻUREK IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM ŻÓŁCIAK AND OSIECKI WHETHER HE REALLY CONSIDERS A SCENARIO WHERE THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CHANCERY WILL SOON BE REFERRED TO AS 'ZBIGNIEW B.': “If charges were filed against him, then yes. However, we cannot prejudge this at the moment. We must wait for the prosecution's action. No one can be above the law, regardless of the office they hold.”
https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/szef-kancelarii-prezydenta-zbigniew-b-minister-zurek-nikt-nie-moze-byc-ponad-prawem-7274922846652704a

-- MORAWIECKI WILL HEAR CHARGES IN THE INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE THEFT FROM THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC RESERVES AGENCY - OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED BY ONET. THIS IS THE EFFECT OF PERSONNEL CHANGES IN THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE - JACEK HARŁUKOWICZ ON ONET: “The investigation into RARS is now personally conducted by Chief Prosecutor Marek Wełna. He is the one who interrogates witnesses, commissions expert opinions, and obtains new evidence. And as he has already announced to his superiors at the National Public Prosecutor's Office, he is preparing charges for Mateusz Morawiecki – we hear from one of our sources in the prosecutor's office. We have confirmed this information from two independent sources at the highest levels of the prosecutor's office. The charges against Morawiecki are the result of another interrogation of Paweł Sz. from 'Red is Bad', which Wełna personally led.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/sledztwo-w-sprawie-rars-przyspieszy-szykuja-sie-zarzuty-dla-morawieckiego/kwmx82w,79cfc278

-- RESPONDING TO POLARIZATION WITH EVEN GREATER POLARIZATION IS NOT ENOUGH, BECAUSE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNANCE (OR LACK THEREOF), THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY AND PUBLIC FINANCES, AND CITIZENS' SENSE OF WELL-BEING ALSO MATTER - PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ ON INTERIA: “Various conclusions can be drawn for the opposition and the ruling party in Poland from the Hungarian elections – which turned into a radical change, a total political reconfiguration. The opposition – enamored with Orban – must remember that every autocracy, no matter how extensive and brazen, has its end. And the government – that responding to polarization with even greater polarization is not enough, because the effectiveness of governance (or lack thereof), the state of the economy and public finances, and citizens' sense of well-being also matter.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-wegierska-lekcja,nId,23326972

-- HUNGARIANS PUNISHED FIDESZ FOR "PARAGON OF HORROR" RECEIPT SCANS - CEZARY SZYMANEK IN RZ: “Certainly, it wasn't just the alliance of Viktor Orban's government with Russia and widespread corruption that decided the outcome of the elections in Hungary. The economy also played a role: stagnation, falling real wages, and deteriorating quality of public services. Orban built a system that worked for years. Magyar won the elections by promising to fix it for all Hungarians. However, voters who voted with their wallets will very quickly remind the new government what was really at stake in these elections. Because ultimately, it always comes down to one thing: a gazdaságról van szó, te buta! (it's about the economy, stupid!).”
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-ekonomiczne/art44144321-cezary-szymanek-sad-nad-orbanomika-wegrzy-ukarali-fidesz-za-paragony-grozy

-- ORBAN'S, KACZYŃSKI'S, AND TRUMP'S VISION OF THE RIGHT HAS LOST - WOJCIECH SZACKI ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA'S PORTAL: “The vision of the right, the state, and the European Union that Orban, Kaczyński, and Donald Trump, who also supported the Hungarian prime minister beyond measure, shared has lost. Orban's course, which turned the once-moderate Fidesz into a national-populist, increasingly radical, and anti-European party, ultimately proved to be a collision course with a wall. Maneuvers with the electoral system, control of the media, and all the advantages resulting from control of the state apparatus did not help. In about a year, presidential elections will be held in France, and if the National Rally loses there, then the bastion of the right in the EU would be Giorgia Meloni's Italy, which is taking a different path than Orban and Kaczyński.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2338971,1,notatnik-polityczny-pis-przegral-w-budapeszcie-przegrala-wizja-prawicy-orbna-kaczynskiego-i-trumpa.read

-- PÉTER MAGYAR'S SUCCESS IN HUNGARY STRENGTHENS THE THESIS THAT RIGHT-WING POPULISM CAN ONLY BE DEFEATED BY THE RIGHT. AND THIS COULD SHIFT ALL POLITICS EVEN FURTHER TO THE RIGHT - JAKUB MAJMUREK IN KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA: “A party that is strongly conservative by European standards has won, positioning itself – like Fidesz once did – on the right wing of the European People's Party. The result thus strengthens the narrative: right-wing populism can only be stopped by a distinct center-right. Orban, despite considerable efforts, failed to stifle Hungarian democracy in an authoritarian embrace. However, he managed to create a country without a parliamentary left. The left-wing and liberal electorate, to remove Orban from power, voted for the center-right TISZA.”

-- HE PROMISED HUNGARIANS A CONTINUATION OF CENTER-RIGHT POLICY WITHOUT THE DISTORTIONS CHARACTERISTIC OF FIDESZ, NOT A LIBERAL ALTERNATIVE - MAJMUREK FURTHER IN KP: “Péter Magyar defeated Orban not because he presented a consistent liberal alternative to Orbanism – let alone a progressive or left-wing one – but because he promised Hungarians a continuation of center-right policy without the distortions characteristic of Fidesz. Without oligarchic networks surrounding the state, without serving Trump and Putin, without unnecessary wars with the European Union, for which the Hungarian economy, deprived of EU funds, pays the price.”
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/czy-prawica-zatrzyma-populizm-wegry-magyar/

-- BIRTHDAYS: Andrzej Gwiazda turns 91, birthdays also celebrated by: Ewa Tomaszewska (79), Antoni Tokarczuk, Robert Górski, Arkadiusz Czartoryski, Mariusz Witczak (55), Tomasz Arabski.