ANDRZEJ DUDA, who took office as Poland’s president on August 6th, says he prizes Poland’s relationship with Germany. That marks a welcome change for his right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, which is favoured to defeat the governing Civic Platform (PO) in the general election on October 25th.
PiS’s previous stint in power, in 2005-2007, was marred by paranoia at home and abroad, particularly the embarrassing anti-German antics of its leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. This time Mr Kaczynski is lying low, leaving the spotlight to milder figures. Still, liberals and centrists worry that PiS could harm Polish-German relations and squander the country’s …read more
Source: The Economist
