Following our initial overview of the German political parties’ European election manifestos (c.f. article No. 11105) we continue our European review with this focus on Poland. Notable here is the vacuum surrounding the issue of a Social Europe. With a Eurosceptic PiS party in power since 2015, and ahead of both parliamentary (October 2019) and presidential (2020) elections, the country’s major political parties are keeping to a national focus.
Poland is being riven by a political battle raging between the ruling PiS party and the opposition, and little time is available to address European issues, especially those surrounding a Social Europe. When addressing the University of Warsaw on 03 May 2019, EU Council President Donald Tusk even called on the opposition to rise above the fray and he warned against ‘an anti-European game’ similar to ‘Game of Thrones’, saying, “If we don’t find a solution to this aggression (clashing political parties) here in Poland then we could find ourselves in a confrontation not unlike the White Knight in Game of Thrones.”
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