Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

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Donald Tusk is working on a great transformation, but it is a hugely difficult project, says writer and broadcaster Anne McElvoy

Donald Tusk is working hard and fast on a great transformation, but travel the country and it’s clear what a difficult task that isy formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war – days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to those countries now, I test myself on how well I guessed what would follow in the three decades since.

I had pondered about what happens when a country that embraced populist nationalism does a 180-degree turn and seeks to restore legal and democratic norms at top speed. What happens to laws passed under the previous masters of the house: the courts, state media, and business and other institutions stuffed by supporters of one side?

For a government led by Tusk, a bullish pro-European veteran of centrist politics who is not of the charm school persuasion , and with little common ground yet visible, that might well be the difference between a durable return to the centre of politics and yet another hairpin change of direction.

 

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