A Dutch investment fund, primarily owned by the globalist tycoon George Soros, is making waves in Poland after the shock purchase of one of the nation’s most prestigious news outlets, Rzeczpospolita, last month in what is seen by many pundits as a way for the recently retired Open Society chief to influence Warsaw’s looming elections.
All eyes are on Poland this month as Poles vote in make-or-break elections in which the nation’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) administration is going up against threats from Warsaw’s EU-backed liberal opposition and anti-NATO populism.
Rzeczpospolita is the second largest newspaper by distribution and is regarded as being traditionally on the centre-right of Polish politics. PiS officials sounded alarm bells at the purchase, which followed on the back of multiple recent media takeovers in Poland by the Soros empire.
Soros already has a large stake in the anti-government Gazeta Wyborcza tabloid as well as radio stations through the same Dutch firm. The matter has not gone unnoticed by PiS and other Polish conservatives. The government-aligned TV station TVP ran a story on the purchase being linked to a wider German-Soros plot to undermine Warsaw’s ruling government.
While the European Commission’s disdain for the Polish government is well known, one prominent Polish journalist aired allegations of a covert plot against Warsaw last week in conjunction with Germany, France, and Ukraine in exchange for removing PiS from power and freeing up the path for Kyiv to join the EU.
Previously, PiS earned the ire of Brussels for passing a media bill that limited the ability of non-EU entities to own the nation’s media with allegations that freedom of the press is being jeopardised in the country, a central tenet of recent rule-of-law harassment by the EU.
Soros’s moves in Poland come at a time of major transition for the 93-year-old financier and civil society guru, who moved to place his son Alexander at the head of his NGO network earlier last year after what appeared to be a low-key family dispute.
While downplaying rumours of a withdrawal from Europe entirely in the face of bad press and declining reach, Alexander Soros indicated that the Open Society network would reorientate towards Eastern Europe to manage the accession process of Ukraine and the Western Balkans. The younger Soros specifically mentioned influencing Poland, to coincide with the rise of Warsaw’s relative geopolitical importance brought on by the Ukrainian conflict.