“The government has promised its voters that it will hold the PiS government accountable, especially regarding the Justice Fund. This is how the new government is showing that they are holding their predecessors accountable. It seems that Fr.

· Polish Catholic priest Michał Olszewski has been in custody since late March in connection with alleged irregularities in obtaining money from the Justice Fund (Fundusz Sprawiedliwości) for the construction of a center for victims of crime.

· The XXXIIIth Economic Forum took place last week in Karpacz. It is often dubbed the Davos of Central Europe.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Justice Minister Adam Bodnar presented on September 6 the assumptions for a draft law on the status of judges who were appointed or promoted to higher positions after 2018.

· The UN-affiliated Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has assessed that Poland’s abortion laws are too strict and thus violate women’s rights.

Polish journalist and essayist Paweł Lisicki, editor-in-chief of the weekly Do Rzeczy, describes the current disturbing evolution of Western liberalism and explains the reasons why classical liberalism, based on individual freedom and limited state interference in the personal lives of citizens, is no longer working.