British media almost unanimously announced 2024 as the year of "the first TikTok election". Is it really the social media platform that will determine the vote? Observing the political parties’ attempts to reach voters on TikTok, we may recall the ancient Greek...
From Feb 9-11, Rachel will participate at the annual Science Foo Camp (Sci Foo) ‘unconference’ organised by SAGE, O’Reilly Media and Facebook in Palo Alto, California. The event is designed to allow participants to meet without a fixed agenda and discuss topics of...
After almost two months since the election day Donald Tusk has officially became the prime minister and Poland entered a new phase in which a coalition government will be required to cohabitate with president Andrzej Duda. With local elections in just three months,...
Mateusz Morawiecki presented his new cabinet to the president and got two weeks to receive a vote of confidence from the parliament. But even president Andrzej Duda seems to believe he will soon be asked to swear in another cabinet, led by Donald Tusk. At the same...
By some accounts, in the recent week Poland has had three governments. The Government 1, led by Mateusz Morawiecki, is the still acting cabinet. The Government 2, also led by Mateusz Morawiecki as prime minister-designate, will be presented to the parliament within...
The new parliament gathers for the first time, Mateusz Morawiecki chooses to accept a seemingly impossible mission to form a new government, and the celebrity marshal Szymon Hołownia is praised for his performance. In the meantime Donald Tusk shies away from the...
The week started with Andrzej Duda’s not entirely earthshaking announcement about whom he will designate as the prime minister. It was followed by the rising tension until the opposition parties unveiled their coalition agreement. The significance of the two...
Written by Filip BialyTwo weeks after the election, the opposition parties are attempting to finalise their coalition agreement, Law and Justice is pretending to be in denial of the basic parliamentary arithmetic, and the president is enjoying a rare moment in the...
Written by Filip Bialy In the first week after the election, it has been extremely difficult to distinguish between facts and speculations about the future government. While Andrzej Duda is determined to designate a Law and Justice candidate as the first choice, the...
Written by Filip Bialy The Polish election silence on Saturday was disturbed by a man who climbed on the top of the Smolensk plane crash monument - which has a form of a staircase leading to the sky - in Warsaw, claiming he has a bomb in his backpack. The police...
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