The bittersweet story of a campaign to kill the sugar tax
We reveal a disinformation effort undertaken behind-the-scenes in an area where Poland’s PR and business sector meet.
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The Golden Boys of Fatima
Tens of millions of zlotys, expensive properties, and a behind-the-scenes war for influence and money – we reveal the financial dealings of an empire built in Poland by a group of Catholic fundamentalists.
Ordo Iuris and Friends: the games around the abortion ban in Poland
Lost summer in Poland
Instead of dealing with the pandemic, Poland’s leaders try to cover it up with one distraction after another: the presidential campaign, the reconstruction of the government, the fight for power inside the coalition, controversial bills.
Krzysztof Story
A suspicious PR consultant and a selfie with Orban
Igor Janke, a partner in Polish PR agency R4S has been charged by the prosecutor’s office in a giant financial scandal. Just a few weeks ago, Janke and his R4S partners opened an office in Budapest.
The victory of far-right fundamentalism in Poland
The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to ban abortion in cases of foetal defects resulted in a wave of pro-women’s rights protests in Warsaw and other cities.
How populists remake Poland
Liberals think that facts are persuasion. They are not – says Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse from Stanford University
NGO? We don’t want you here
Independent, non-governmental watchdogs are always treated as an enemy by illiberal states and wannabe dictators. Viktor Orban’s Hungary is a classic example, but know a similar danger is growing in Poland.
Flesh of a tiger
What happens to dead tigers that die young in suspicious circumstances in legal breeding farms? The disappear into thin air.