News & Politics
March 11, 2021 Explaining the reasons for the bill, Ziobro said that the natural environment for raising children was a traditional family, and that the constitution recognised marriage only as a union between a woman and a man. Piotr Nowak/PAP
Poland s justice ministry is preparing a bill banning homosexual couples from adopting children.
Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, whose Solidary Poland party is part of Poland s ruling United Right Coalition, led by the staunchly conservative Law and Justice party, said on Thursday that the bill was designed to protect children from adoption by homosexuals.
Poland’s government has made protecting what it considers as the country’s traditional values from liberal and cosmopolitan tendencies a cornerstone of its policies, despite it generating strident domestic and international criticism.
News & Politics
February 20, 2021
Politicians of the junior ruling coalition party Solidary Poland (Solidarna Polska) have said in a communique sent to PAP that they oppose the dismissal of party member Janusz Kowalski as deputy minister of state assets, arguing that it breaches a coalition deal.
Solidary Poland officials claimed that Kowalski was a consistent critic of moves made in Brussels and that is why he was removed from his position, in contravention of a deal forged between members of the ruling United Right coalition. We hope the decision of his dismissal will be the subject of talks between United Right leaders during the Coalition Council, they wrote.
News & Politics
February 20, 2021 Kowalski is a member of Solidary Poland (Solidarna Polska), a junior ally of the ruling Law and Justice party. Tomasz Gzell/PAP
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has signed the dismissal of Deputy State Assets Minister Janusz Kowalski, State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin said on Saturday. The dismissal of Minister Kowalski, already signed by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, is on my desk and today the minister will receive it, Sasin told RMF FM radio.
Kowalski is a member of Solidary Poland (Solidarna Polska), a junior ally of the ruling Law and Justice party. He was strongly opposed the government’s agreement to the compromise on the EU’s long-term budget because of the conditionality mechanism, which his party considered a threat to Poland’s sovereignty.
Poland’s prosecutors will be included in the “first group” and receive priority access to the vaccines against COVID-19 under the national vaccination plan, according to which medical staff and the elderly who are part of the “zero group” received the vaccine first.
The decision faced sharp criticism because those included in the first group will be given priority over people with chronic conditions below 60, who were added to the “second group”.
As “Gazeta Wyborcza” daily pointed out, no other EU country apart from Cyprus has included the army or special services into priority groups, and even Cyrpus does not plan to prioritise prosecutors.
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BUDAPEST
‘Mother – woman, father – man’ constitutional amendment passes. The Hungarian parliament approved on Tuesday amendments to the constitution that proclaim, among other things, that “the mother is a woman, the father is a man.”
It also now states that “Hungary protects the right of children to self-identity according to their sex at birth and provides an upbringing in accordance with the values based on Hungary’s constitutional identity and Christian culture.” On the same day, parliament also passed a bill that mandates that single people need a special ministerial permission to adopt someone. More.
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EU INSTITUTIONS
8 European countries join forces on vaccination campaign. The ministers of health of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, have issued a statement vowing to coordinate their efforts for the safe, efficient and transparent use of the COVID-19 vaccine.