On Saturday, October 9, 2021, a protest took place in Vienna against the abuses of the Jugendamt (German child protection institution) and in solidarity with the Camelia and Petru Furdui Family.
(Letter to Editor FT)
Your editorial (“Bridging east-west differences in the EU”, FT View, FT.com, January 3) tries hard to be objective, but what it gains in nuance and complication it loses in clarity.
The majority of Poles do want an independent judiciary, unfettered media and a successful market economy, not a renationalised quasi-communist one. They do not feel they are at the receiving end of high-minded lectures from the west. On the contrary, they look to the west to support their struggle to protect their values against arbitrary action by a xenophobic ruling party determined to take control under the guise of “repolonisation”. It is the ruling party that objects to the “high-minded lectures”.