politics - FDI to the Baltic

2022-11-26

Forget rhetoric, Poland is the welcome buffer from Russia

Warsaw will raise its target defence spending to 5% of GDP. Whether acting as buffer from Russia will translate into political influence is another matter.

2022-10-25

Poland vs EU: more cohesion billions to fund the row

In addition to the pandemic recovery funds, the prospect of withholding Poland’s slice of the EU’s budget pie has sparked uproar in Warsaw.

2022-10-01

Recovery-Fund-sagas continue, but citizens and firms only need certainties

Despite firms only need certainties, EU keeps deducting from Poland as a result of not complying with the judiciary. But Warsaw could spoil the Fit for 55 climate packages.

2022-02-26

Beware of Kaliningrad, the spearhead of the attacker in the Baltic

NATO’s Achilles heel in the Russia-Ukraine war. Beware of Kaliningrad, Russia outside Russia, a crossing point between Europe and the three Baltic countries.

2021-11-27

Lithuania-China row: affordable loss or trade gamble?

Vilnius defended its right to expand cooperation with Taiwan, with huge potential for cooperation in semiconductors, lasers, and fintech.

2021-10-09

How populism throws the stone but hides its hand

The ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal introduces aspects of a legal Polexit, harming the judicial cooperation between Polish and European courts.

2021-10-02

How affordable is a chess game against the EU?

Rulers in Warsaw are undermining the independence of courts, media and NGOs. Forgetting that the primacy of European laws is a key principle of the integration.