Poland's university rectors protest against the government

On March 23, the Polish University Rectors' Conference complained that the conservative-populist government is endangering the foundations of the democratic constitutional state. According to one resolution, the authority of the courts should not be called into question and public prosecutors should not be drawn into politics. Jan Widacki, a Cracow-based lawyer, agrees: "The academic elite is quite rightly concerned, and their protest is justified. Yet I can't help asking why it's taken so long. Why now?... These are serious accusations and they have been formulated by a competent body. The accusations are so grave that in any country with a political opposition they would be interpreted as an important warning to the government. But in our country the government has nothing to fear. There is no opposition - no one will make use of this protest."

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