Aleks Szczerbiak

In Poland we are seeing a divide between the wealthy urban elite and the provincial populace, that is increasing throughout EU nations. This is the result of the EU’s neo-liberal policy. Aleks Szczerbiak is Professor […]

Catching up on Polish politics. The Law and Justice party has been portrayed in mainstream media in the EU as “far-right”. This article explains that the far-right in Poland is occupied by someone else. Aleks […]

The current political situation in Poland, warts and all. After reading Aleks’s article one truly has a grasp of what is occurring in Poland. There are hardly any other authors in Europe who can do […]

Although the right-wing ruling party won a decisive victory, the overall balance of support for the government and opposition camps remains evenly divided. Next May’s presidential election now assumes critical importance and could be closer […]

Funny old world. Poland’s Law and Order Party, despised by EU’s Liberal Democrats, is probably the most social-democratic party in Europe and among its citizens the most credible. Oh, how we wish we had someone […]

Aleks is one of our most valued authors for politics. He writes “Warts and all” as Oliver Cromwell said. No EU romanticism, no personality cult, just the facts – most of it rather ugly. What […]

It is seldom that we have such a concise and perspicuous political analysis of one nation. Forget the mainstream media, here is a chance to understand the current political situation in Poland. What is especially […]

Actually we do not do election articles before the event as it is pure speculation. The analysis afterwards is more important. Surprisingly this excellent article and another concerning Latvia (read here) that was just as […]