vadimivich
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From the NYT - analysis of the Polish election and what it means (basically - yet another crazy right wing European country that wants to be part of the EU for the cash, but not in any other way). The eastern European states are effectively becoming the United States south - heavily dependent on funds from the rest of the Union, but defiantly fighting against social change in any form it's presented. The situation with Poland is a little bit extra crazy because the current EU President is Polish and from a centrist party that the new majority Law and Justice party hates venomously. They will have to choose to support him (and potentially weaken themselves domestically) or not (and then weaken the little influence Poland has in EU affairs). Also, Law and Justice last time in the majority was 10 years ago and such a disaster they were immediately voted out (they spent half of it antagonizing Germany to nothing but the detriment of the Polish economy).
And not shockingly, Law and Justice is patterned after Hungary's Fidesz party. At one point the head of Law and Justice claimed "We will have a Budapest in Warsaw". Have fun with fucking your country as hard as Orban has fucked his. When Putin is your best (only?) friend, it's never a good sign.
And not shockingly, Law and Justice is patterned after Hungary's Fidesz party. At one point the head of Law and Justice claimed "We will have a Budapest in Warsaw". Have fun with fucking your country as hard as Orban has fucked his. When Putin is your best (only?) friend, it's never a good sign.
Many of the party's supporters take for granted the EU funds that drive growth, and the freedom to easily cross European borders for travel and work. But at the same time they often resist making sacrifices themselves or changing their deeply traditional mindset, for example by accepting gay marriage or other liberal Western values.
"They welcome the EU if it brings funds but not if it brings migrants and the Western decadent lifestyle," Kucharczyk said. He argues that the party won such a decisive victory because it made people believe that it could "create an invisible wall around Poland," allowing Poles to keep all the things they like about EU membership while insulating them from what they don't like.