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Lis, Tomasz
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Get rid of the 'Institute of National Persecution'
Poland's conservative-liberal ruling coalition plans to cut funding for the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which is charged with the prosecution of Communist and Nazi crimes committed in Poland. In his opinion piece for the liberal daily Polska television, journalist Thomasz Lis calls for the IPN to be scrapped for persecuting the former hero of the revolution and Polish President Lech Wałęsa. "Why should I sponsor a freedom of research that results in black being called white and vice versa. ... I don't give a damn about a freedom of expression that allows a hero of the free trade union [Solidarność] to be branded a pest who hindered rather than helped [the country]. ... Freedom is worth great sacrifices. But people who spit on the best of the best are not worth much. How can one admire a nation that slings mud at people who would be treated with respect in any other country? ... Have we earned respect when we cannot even respect ourselves? The 'Institute of National Persecution' should cease to exist. The budgetary cuts are too mild a punishment."
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Cohabitation in Poland
According to journalist Tomasz Lis, there will be no radical reforms in Poland over the coming years because President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk will block each other's initiatives. He predicts cohabitation along the lines of the French Chirac-Jospin model. "The French president wanted re-election; the prime minister an election. The consequence was trench warfare and paralysis. It seems likely we'll have the same situation here. ... The Polish-French comparison deviates in only one point: Chirac didn't have a twin brother backing him in parliament."
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Kaczynski's path to a new Poland
A nation of 38 million citizens in the heart of Europe has the right to know what the government's plans are and why two ministers have resigned, writes Tomas Lis, director of programmes at private TV broadcaster Polsat. "This is chaos, grotesque - a theatre of the absurd. … Those who govern Poland are behaving as if they were trapped in a castle under siege. They can't see that they are not under siege. They can't see that the moat consists of their own complexes, traumas and obsessions. ... The Kaczynski brothers must return to the nation to which they owe everything they have; to their nation, which consists not of their subjects, but of their superiors."
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