Poland’s president must go if the EU is to progress
Voters have forced right-winger Andrzej Duda into a run-off and salvation might lie with the popular mayor of Warsaw
The EU has many problems, but the most fundamental may be the rift between northern and southern member states and the even deeper fault line running between west and east. That latter fissure is especially dangerous because, unlike the largely economic one between north and south, it tears at the EU’s core values, including democracy, freedom of the press and the rule of law.
For the past decade, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been flouting these principles in the name of “illiberalism”. And for half a decade, Poland has been inching in the same direction, by whittling away at the independence of its judiciary and more. But Poland, more than Hungary, could yet change course. And that may have started on Sunday...
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