Poland has one of the strongest militaries in Europe and aims to spend 4.7% of its GDP on defence this year, well above the NATO target. But it also has a long border with Ukraine and Belarus and is concerned about its own security. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk last ...
Poland’s previous anti-migrant government built the steel barrier at the border and pushed migrants back into Belarus, a situation that refugee rights activists criticized. A pro-EU government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk that took power in December has also taken a hard line on the borde...
Police entered Poland's presidential palace to detain the two on Tuesday. Prime Minister Donald Tusk had earlier accused Duda of obstructing justice after the two lawmakers appeared at the palace, prompting police to search for them in cars leaving the building. Hundreds of...
The Polish government doesn’t want to criticise the proposal by Council President Donald Tusk, who is a former prime minister, albeit from the Civic Platform, now in the opposition. Foreign Minister Waszczykowski said that Tusk’s proposal “would not adversely affect Poles who h...
The new government in Greece has all of a sudden found out that its predecessor has been mis-representing for some time the true situation of public finances. The size of the data revisions has been extraordinary: the deficit estimate for this year is now 4.6 % of GDP, almost 3 percentage...
of presidentialism and president-parliamentarism relative to premier-presidentialism etc, or is it better to test for the effect of presidential power scores that capture such power continuously and in a much more fine-grained way, but that doesn’t allow you to say anything about regime types?
of presidentialism and president-parliamentarism relative to premier-presidentialism etc, or is it better to test for the effect of presidential power scores that capture such power continuously and in a much more fine-grained way, but that doesn’t allow you to say anything about regime types?
“In the next election, we have a primary responsibility to prevent the prospect of an all-powerful and uncontrollable ‘ruler’ prime minister”, Tsipras said. Shocked by the election disaster, Syriza is currently looking to quickly pick up its pieces and significantly improve its performance ...
The global Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was endorsed by the 192 members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 21 May, concluding three years of negotiations.