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Wroński, Paweł
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Unworthy commemoration of Smolensk disaster
Poland on Sunday commemorated president Lech Kaczyński and 95 other representatives of the Polish state who died a year ago in a plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk. But in view of the accusations voiced against leading Polish and Russian politicians the atmosphere was unworthy of the occasion, according to the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza: "What do the slogans that were chanted before the Russian embassy and the presidential palace in Warsaw have to do with commemorating the victims. ... And what was the motivation of these people who cried 'Putin - murderer! and burned a puppet in his likeness? This is shameful! Young Russians, by contrast, laid flowers in front of the Russian embassy in Warsaw and the Polish embassy in Moscow and lit commemorative candles."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Remembrance culture, » Poland, » Russia
President must lose his right of veto
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has proposed to abolish the president's right to veto laws passed by the government. An important step for achieving a functioning parliament, writes the left-liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza: "A system in which the president - who is also the inofficial leader of the opposition - can block the government at any time represents a significant threat for the state. And it demoralises the government. Moreover, if the government fails to take action on something, it can cite this obstacle as an excuse. To that extent the changes proposed by the prime minister strike me as reasonable. It is very difficult to govern in a situation where it's not even enough to win the parliamentary elections. Because once a prime minister is confronted with a veto he needs a three-fifth majority in the Sejm [the lower house of the Polish parliament]."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Poland
Six Polish soldiers on trial
The Poznan public prosecutor's office brought on Wednesday, November 14th, charges against six Polish soldiers accused of killing six civilians in Afghanistan with a mortar grenade in August 2007. Paweł Wronski comments. "Contrary to the proclamations of the politicians, what's happening in Afghanistan is not a stabilisation mission; it's a complex war operation. The officer who led the patrol should never have given the command to target a civilian village and the soldiers should not have carried out these orders. If what the public prosecutor say is true, the soldiers were not told why they were in Afghanistan. After all, they were supposed to protect and help the people they shot. Who should now be held responsible?"
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Poland
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