After eight years of illiberal rule, the former president of the European Council has returned to sweep away the vestiges of PiS state capture, reversing course will be difficult
One hundred days into the government of Donald Tusk, and the mood in Warsaw is changing. Poland’s rejuvenating politics are perhaps best expressed by Beethoven’s Ode to Joy rather than Chopin’s nationalist sonatas, once spoken of by Robert Schuman as “cannons concealed amid blossoms”.
Crucially, his government has already unblocked ¤57billion from the EU’s post-Covid recovery and resilience fund which the commission had withheld for two years over violations of the EU’s rule of law standards, acknowledgment of his efforts to restore judicial independence, respect EU law and observe the Polish constitution.
And replacing PiS appointees like central bank chief Adam Glapinski, accused of abuse of power to facilitate PiS, likely to end up in the courts, even, ironically, the European Court of Justice which PIS repeatedly insisted had no jurisdiction over internal matters.
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