Crowds protesting the forced retirement of judges, in front of Poland’s Supreme Court building, Warsaw.
AP/Czarek Sokolowski
With its attempt to purge the country’s courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland’s right-wing ruling party passed another milestone on the path towards establishment of a one-party state.
Protesters hold signs reading ‘Constitution’.
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With it’s latest reforms, Poland’s leading Law and Justice party is hindering any progress towards a viable judiciary.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, welcomes his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif, ahead of their meeting in Moscow on May 14, 2018.
AP/Maxim Shemetov
It would be a heavy lift, but revising the Iran nuclear deal would have some significant upsides, according to scholars at the University of Maryland.
Trunk road.
Paul Biden
Europe loses as many trees to storms each year as Poland produces in timber. Until now, the models for predicting which trees are at risk have not been good enough.
The Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán speaks on March 15 in Budapest. He’s running for reelection.
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This Sunday Hungarians vote whether to return prime minister Viktor Orbán to office. The choice they make will affect the future of their country, and Europe.
EPA/Christian Bruna
The story began when police discovered the bodies of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancé – both had been shot dead.
The ABC’s independence is a global concern.
AAP/Joel Carrett
There are a lot of misconceptions regarding what a public broadcaster is. But one thing it is not is a government or state broadcaster.
Nationalists demonstrate in support of the controversial new Holocaust law.
EPA/Jacek Turczyk
Criminalising suggestions that Poland was complicit in German atrocities during World War II denies history and will hinder scholarship.
‘Anti-Semitism is treatable’ – a banner at a Warsaw demonstration.
Reuters/ Agencja Gazeta
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a battle is taking place over Polish collective memory.
EPA/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
Reforms to the judiciary are a threat to democracy – and that affects us all.
Viktor Orbán.
EPA/Lukas Barth
Poland and Hungary have recently clashed with Brussels over democratic freedoms, but economic drivers are at play, too.
EPA/Szilard Koszticsak
Several post-communist member states are moving further and further away from European Union norms.
Bishop Desmond Tutu during South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission process.
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Inquests into atrocities committed under apartheid are important because many South Africans are beginning to question whether justice was done under the country’s truth and reconciliation process.
This Auroch skeleton from Denmark dates to around 7,500BC. The circles indicate where the animal was wounded by arrows.
Malene Thyssen./Wikimedia
Bringing back aurochs is a competitive and ambitious venture aiming at recreating wilderness in Europe. But ethical and scientific questions linger.
What do you mean you can’t stick your hands up? DVA security operative at Poland’s private European Security Academy.
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Politicians are promising to advance their countries’ international positions through nationalist militarisation and celebration of virile men.
There are 48,000 Polish people over 50 living in the UK.
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Family care arrangments likely to come under pressure under new migration rules.
EPA/Olivier Hoslet
It’s never been used in the history of the EU, but Poland could be about to feel the full force of this powerful mechanism.
EPA/Jakub Kaczmarczyk
The European Union is threatening to suspend the state’s voting rights if it pursues legislation to restrict its judiciary.
Krasinski Square in Warsaw, Poland just before Trump’s speech.
Reuters/Kacper Pempel
A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that took in the president’s speech.
Poland’s first liquefied natural gas terminal, in the Baltic port of Swinoujscie,, under construction in 2014.
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Can Poland reduce its dependence on cheap and dirty domestic coal power?