How to restore democracy

The World

How does a country rebuild a democracy? It’s a question the Polish government under Donald Tusk has been trying to tackle for over a year now. For eight years, the previous administration filled the country’s democratic institutions with party loyalists, turning public media into a government mouthpiece and stacking the judiciary with its allies. As The World’s Europe correspondent tells us, new Prime Minister Donald Tusk is finding that restoring democracy is not that easy.

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