Dismantling illiberalism in Poland

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : These include the central bank, the upper levels of the judiciary, the state media, public administration and state-controlled segments of the economy.
53% : He served as Poland's prime minister from 2007 to 2014, and then had a stint as president of the European Council, the body that groups heads of EU governments.
53% : But in principle a change of government ought to unlock tens of billions of euros for Poland from the EU's post-pandemic recovery funds and from the regular EU budget, as Leszek Kąsek and Rafał Benecki write for ING bank.
52% : Moreover, Andrzej Duda, the elected head of state, is a PiS-aligned politician.
50% : The EU, with which PiS clashed over the rule of law, will surely look with favour on the new government's efforts to restore judicial independence.
48% : Hanna Cichy, head of economic research at Polityka Insight, says:[PiS] profoundly changed the structure of public spending, with direct payments for numerous categories of the population, but [left] public services in a sorry state, especially in education.
45% : On the whole, though, the opposition's electoral victory leaves Hungary under its illiberal premier Viktor Orbán more isolated in the EU in its quarrels with Brussels and western European governments over Ukraine, the rule of law and other matters.
45% : Orbán can count on some sympathy from Robert Fico, Slovakia's newly elected prime minister -- but I'm not convinced Fico will rock the boat with the EU as much as Orbán may be hoping.
42% : Will a Tusk-led government be able to reverse the capture of state institutions by the rightwing nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party over the past eight years?
37% : Under a new government, Poland may also not fall wholly in line with the EU on issues such as migration and asylum reform.

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