Poland

Characterizing migrants as “armed bands” shapes the legal vocabulary - with potentially dire consequences. A call for empathy and restraint in legal discourse.

Is Belarus violating its bilateral and human rights commitments at the border?

Belarus has been criticized for using desperate migrants to pressure EU borders. But is it breaking international law by doing so?

President Biden hoped for a more stable and predictable relationship with Russia. Time to deal with reality instead.

With EU and US help, the Three Seas Initiative can resist Russia's and China's designs on the region by promoting transparency, prosperity, and development.

The repeated violations of fundamental rights and principles corrode the very foundations of the democracy Poland fought so hard to win.

Ombudspersons face similar risks across the region, as autocratic ruling parties seek to remove independent checks on their control.

A transatlantic response must document the threat, make it a priority, and convey that observing international law and established norms is non-negotiable.

The Hungarian and Polish governments’ exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends poses a significant challenge for the EU with consequences that will be present…

The European Court of Justice is set to rule this year or early next on Poland’s two-year-old revised disciplinary regime for judges, a central mechanism that the ruling Law…

The Trump administration is taking $770 million from the European Deterrence Initiative, a program created to shore up European defense after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

After years of flailing in efforts to curb Poland’s government from eviscerating the rule of law, an arcane element of the European Union structure might actually be working…