After the Romanian authorities canceled the first round of elections won by anti-Globalist Calin Georgescu, and detained him for questioning in a bogus prosecution, it now arises that Georgescu has been BARRED from running in the May poll, in which he is the leading candidate, favorite with 40% of vote intentions.
Bucharest has exploded in chaos after the decision was announced.
“Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has officially rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy, voting 10-4 against him—citing claims that his speech and behavior are “incompatible” with the office of president.
This politically charged decision follows appeals demanding his disqualification, despite Georgescu polling above 40% and previously clearing all registration requirements. Georgescu’s team now has 24 hours to appeal to the Constitutional Court (CCR), which must issue a final, unappealable ruling within 48 hours.
With public outrage growing and protests escalating, Romania’s election is turning into a battle over political suppression.”
🚨🇷🇴MASSIVE CLASHES IN BUCHAREST AS PROTESTERS TRY TO TEAR DOWN FENCES OVER GEORGESCU BAN
Fury is erupting in Romania as an enraged crowd attempts to break through the fences outside the Bureau of Electoral Control (BEC) after authorities rejected Calin Georgescu’s candidacy… https://t.co/Jor7RnW5GCpic.twitter.com/QFBx24FQLh
Assault on board a bus on the Cremona-Spinadesco line. Two girls of foreign origin allegedly slapped an Italian girl of the same age because she was eating a sandwich on the bus and insulted her: ‘Whore, you can’t eat, it’s Ramadan’. When the bus driver intervened to defend the girl, the two allegedly pushed him and scratched his face, breaking his glasses and forcing him to be taken to the hospital.
The incident, reported by the daily La Provincia di Cremona, is said to have taken place on Tuesday March 4 and was described by the 52-year-old driver himself, who was able to leave hospital with five days of treatment. The man said that it was some women who raised the alarm: ‘Driver, they’re fighting, pull over!’. He then stopped, opened all the doors and ordered them to leave the bus. ‘At that moment, I saw that they were beating the Italian girl. I immediately called the carabinieri, who arrived within a few minutes’.
The girls were let off the bus, but when one of them jumped off the bus,’ said the driver, ’she pushed me in the stomach. The other one also pushed me, broke my glasses and scratched my face. The driver said he would file a complaint with the carabinieri and attach the medical report.
The news triggered a strong reaction. The attack was sharply criticised by the Muslim community. Muslims living in Italy must respect the laws of the country and behave like responsible citizens. If we want to be respected, we must first and foremost respect others and the environment in which we live,’ explained Aftab Ahmed, member of the Consulta degli immigrati and chairman of the Immigrati cittadini Onlus association in Cremona.
In contrast, Lega MP Silvia Sardone described the incident as ‘emblematic of what the most radical Islam is: violence and oppression against non-Muslims. Yet there is still someone on the left who bends over backwards in the face of increasing Islamisation, closing schools for Ramadan, adapting canteen menus to please the various Muslim communities and even allowing the niqab in class’.
England vs Italy halted after drone hanging Palestine flag flies over Twickenham X
A drone hanging a Palestine flag flew over Twickenham as England took on Italy in the Six Nations, temporarily halting the match.
While the Six Nations game went ahead just moments later, it further highlighted the growing unrest including Palestinian protestors in recent times.
Only this weekend, a protestor managed to scale Big Ben as unrest went ahead on the streets below.
England went on to beat Italy 47-24 to keep their Six Nations dream alive, though if only a slim hope with France poised to claim victory.
The drone involved flew over temporarily before hovering off but not before it was noticed by people, who flocked to social media.
The Palestine flag draped underneath from two strings was spotted by officials, who halted the match before it flew off and play resumed.
Rugby fans fumed on social media with one taking to social media to write: “Where’s the RAF when you need them.”
Another posted: “Have a day off.”
While a third said: “Shoot it down.”
Meanwhile, England surged to second place in the Six Nations table after a commanding seven-try victory over Italy at Allianz Stadium.
The impressive win puts Steve Borthwick’s men in prime position to capitalise on any final-day slip-up by tournament leaders France.
In what ultimately became a comfortable victory, England showed their attacking prowess against a spirited Italian side.
The result maintains England’s momentum as the championship reaches its crucial final stages.
Wing Ollie Sleightholme was the star performer, crossing the line twice to bolster England’s attacking display.
Despite the final scoreline, Italy made the hosts work hard in the opening period as the visitors produced two superb tries of their own to stay within touching distance.
Replacement Marcus Smith made an immediate impact after coming on at a tense moment, crossing the line to extend England’s advantage as the hosts went on to score a total of seven tries.
Borthwick’s side end their Six Nations campaign with a trip to Cardiff next week to take on Wales, who have lost 16 matches in a row.
“Nuremberg cancels children’s carnival,” the BILD reports.
Threats have forced the German city to cancel the Rose Monday children’s carnival parade. The reason: the terrorists named potential targets, including carnival parades. No carnival in Munich.
“Ramadan instead of carnival: the failure of the multicultural project,” writes Anna Diouf with the necessary irony.
In cities across Europe, concrete bollards are intended to prevent cars with famous mentally disturbed people at the wheel from hurtling into the celebrating crowd. In places where this is not possible or where fear of attacks prevails, parades and events are canceled, as in Nuremberg.
For several years, Jews in Germany have been advised not to be recognizable on the street with yarmulkes, fringes, and words in Hebrew.
While carnival revelers and fools have to limit themselves, Ramadan can take place undisturbed. And so in a Germany stunned by the attacks, Islam turns on its lights. There must be a moment when we understand the logic of multicultural madness. And this should be one of them.
The traditional carnival parade in Kempten has been cancelled because there are not enough concrete barriers and the high costs of the alternative measures are not “sustainable”.
Beatrice Achterberg, editor of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, attacks the appeasement of Islam: “Now that Germany has been shaken by several terrorist attacks, often of Islamist origin. Perhaps it is more a sign of submission than of tolerance”.
All this is accepted as the new “normal”. And since the famous “local customs” have to adapt, Ramadan can be celebrated undisturbed, with the lights of Ramadan in Frankfurt, Cologne and Berlin.
That’s how the West is. Culture is being sold off. And suddenly there is nothing more important than culture, but of course not your own, but foreign culture.
And in the context of the global rise of political Islam, the dispossession of European culture is an act of grabbing tolerated with great naivety.
The model is London, which under the leadership of its Muslim mayor embarked on this type of Islamization last year and inaugurated the Ramadan lighting near the famous Piccadilly Circus.
More Ramadan lights in London, while it is “winter holiday” in France instead of Christmas.
One day they will introduce Ramadan as a national religious holiday in Europe.
Frankfurt has lit up the historic center for the Islamic holy month. For 30 days, the words “Happy Ramadan” will shine on the Freßgass. “We are showing that Muslim life is a natural part of our city, Frankfurt stands for diversity and openness,” said Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Greens). In light of the election results, with over 20 percent for the AfD, it is particularly important this year to “prove that everyone belongs in Frankfurt”.
This “Happy Ramadan” shows the full extent of the uncultured “monotony” that has taken hold in the mind of the progressive intellectual idiot. In a society of idiots, absurdity becomes a success.
Eskandari-Grünberg is wrong: if we were multicultural, Carnival could be celebrated peacefully, respecting the normal security measures. Then we would not have to worry about Islamic terrorism. But now we live in the intoxication of green diversity.
Cologne is also celebrating Ramadan for the first time. The same city that erases the iconic cathedral from its new logo that comes after the mayor’s decision to allow the Islamic call to prayer in the city from 50 mosques.
A mother, in this best Germany ever, does not want her 9-year-old daughter to go on a school trip to the large mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. The management of the elementary school in Longerich threatens the mother with consequences. “I was immediately threatened that my daughter would not be allowed to participate in any more trips,” the 36-year-old mother tells Express.de about the school’s reaction.
In a supposedly Christian country, if you do not want to send your child on a trip to the mosque, you are now punished. And the Catholic Church of St. Theodore in Cologne has contributed to the Islamization of the city by financing Erdogan’s mosque, in the name of an imaginary interreligious dialogue.
Even Munich is illuminated for Ramadan, a few weeks after the Islamist attack. In Munich, the lighting serves to promote the “normalization of Islamic holidays”, according to the city.
They say it openly.
For the first time in Berlin, in the Mitte district, Ramadan lights have been installed. Mayor Stefanie Remlinger (Greens) announced it. The Tiergarten town hall is also festively lit. A break in the fast is planned in Leopoldplatz.
Christian Thielemann, the great conductor who should have been appointed to lead the Berlin Philharmonic, the first German sixty years after Wilhelm Furtwängler, was right, but the accusation of being “Islamophobic” cost him his job. Asked whether Islam belonged to Germany, Thielemann said: “Perhaps one day Christianity will belong to Turkey again and Judaism to the Arab world. But until then we have to be able to say no, without being seen as fascists.”
That’s how we talk and think. But it takes courage. Better to join the multicultural fools’ party.
On January 30, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian refugee, was shot dead in his “safe house” in Södertälje, a suburb of Stockholm, while he was recording a live broadcast on social media in which he defended the right to criticize the Koran in the name of freedom of expression.
Swedish philosopher and artist Alexander Bard told Le Point: “Salwan Momika’s murder is an absolute disgrace. He was the country’s most obvious target: a Christian who fled Iraq after surviving the Islamic State, and yet no one is protecting him va. His act of burning the Koran, which is perfectly legal in Sweden, was intended to draw attention to a fundamental problem. Today I am ashamed, deeply ashamed to be Swedish. This murder reveals the extreme weakness of our culture. The worst thing is that Salwan Momika is not an isolated case. It is precisely people from the Arab world who now feel most threatened in the West. Take Luai Ahmed, a Yemeni, openly gay and totally opposed to Islam. He had to flee his country, but he is not safe in Sweden either. That is why our current crisis is so serious.”
Bard speaks of a spiritual crisis. “Sweden is fascinating because it is very, very consistent in its ideology. Christianity is literally dead here. We didn’t even need pedophiles to kill Christianity. It is dead. Poof, gone. The churches, if they still exist, are completely empty. This means that the state ideology has become the only ideology in Sweden.”
“Sweden is facing a cultural schizophrenia with the arrival of a population that today numbers one to two million people, or 20 percent of the total. Proportionately, Sweden is probably the country in the world with the highest ratio of immigration to population. However, of these 10 million inhabitants, 2 million do not adhere to the official ideology at all, but take advantage of it. France, Sweden, any European country can explode at any moment, precisely because we know nothing about these subcultures. Europe would do well to learn from the current situation in Sweden.
“What is happening there is a warning to the rest of the continent. This is the greatest danger that Europe faces today. In Sweden, it was not only Salwan Momika who had to flee, but also many others. In recent years, Jews have also left the country in large numbers, precisely because they no longer feel safe. For the first time in a long time, one can ask whether the principles of the Enlightenment are not really in danger. The last time they were threatened was in the 1940s, with the rise of fascism. Today the threat takes another form. That of Islamism.”
Only 3 percent of Swedes believe that being Christian is an important part of their national identity, while 91 percent of Iraqis, one of the largest groups of migrants in Sweden, support Islamic law. What is striking about a recent Gallup poll is the way it presents the contrast between first-world and third-world nations over theocracy. And that will have some weight, given that in a few years a third of Sweden will be Islamic.
But make yourself comfortable: Ikea, the Swedish giant, has just launched its Ramadan line.
Our freedom is being reduced to choosing which sofa to buy.
On today’s #NCFWhittle, we are joined by Prof. David Betz, Professor of War in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London where he heads the MA War Studies programme. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Prof. Betz’s most recent book, The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century, is published by Polity
When my kids were growing up, I knew a young man who was charming, funny, sociable, and quite obviously going to be gay. Exactly no one was surprised when, at 13, he came out of the closet. All would have been well if COVID hadn’t hit when he was in college. Isolated and depressed, he signed up for therapy, ending with a therapist who informed him that he was actually a woman. (I’m sure social media algorithms, such as Chinese-run TikTok’s, helped steer him in that direction.)
This young man has now had hormones and two surgeries. He’s stacked up top and empty down below. The big question is whether he will find happiness.
Sadly for my young friend, the odds are against him, at least according to a massive study done in Houston and published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, an outlet of Oxford Academic, which is, in turn, part of Oxford University Press. In other words, a big study published on a reputable forum. According to that study, once the surgery is over, and once the euphoria associated with realizing a dream has passed, the post-surgical patients are deeply depressed.
Image by Grok.
The study examined information from 107,583 patients, using the TriNetX database. (Electronic medical records are very helpful for looking at large population segments.) The study examined people over age 18 with gender dysphoria, and broke them into six useful categories for data analysis.
WPATH, the largest organization pushing “transgender” ideology on doctors and hospitals, along with the usual collection of activists, would undoubtedly predict that the study showed increased levels of happiness among post-surgical people. They surely would argue that so-called “transgender” people who had surgery would magically be less depressed, less inclined to substance abuse, and less likely to commit suicide.
In fact, the opposite was true, and not just a little true, but very true. Those who had surgery were markedly less happy than their so-called “transgender” peers who stopped short of slicing and dicing their bodies:
From 107 583 patients, matched cohorts demonstrated that those undergoing surgery were at significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance use disorders than those without surgery. Males with surgery showed a higher prevalence of depression (25.4% vs. 11.5%, RR 2.203, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (12.8% vs. 2.6%, RR 4.882, P < 0.0001). Females exhibited similar trends, with elevated depression (22.9% vs. 14.6%, RR 1.563, P < 0.0001) and anxiety (10.5% vs. 7.1%, RR 1.478, P < 0.0001). Feminizing individuals demonstrated particularly high risk for depression (RR 1.783, P = 0.0298) and substance use disorders (RR 1.284, P < 0.0001).
Sadly, the study pulls back from stating the obvious conclusion, which is that so-called transgenderism is a mental condition, not a physical one. Mutilating one’s body, even if that mutilation is deeply desired and ostensibly conforms to a perceived “better body,” does not address the underlying problems of gender dysphoria.
Or as the old saying goes, “wherever you go, there you are.” You cannot outrun yourself with surgery. Surgeries are good for fixing distinct medical conditions (e.g., a broken hip or clogged heart), or even making little cosmetic tweaks (e.g., a nose job), but they will not fix a broken psyche.
But again, the study will not or cannot acknowledge that. Instead, it believes the post-surgical problems arise, in part, from “stigma and lack of gender affirmation.” That cannot be right, because the stigma and lack of gender affirmation logically exist before the mutilating surgery as well as after. Ignoring logic, the study recommends “ongoing, gender-sensitive mental health support for transgender individuals’ post-surgery.” The same logic says this won’t help either.
Again, wherever you go, there you are. Cutting off your breasts or castrating yourself will not change that, no matter how much you sign up for “mental health support” from ideologues who, like the therapist my young friend saw, are effectively hammers who believe everything is a transgender nail.
Transgender madness will pass, as all societal delusions must. However, it will leave so many broken lives in its wake.
Currently, my young friend is living a narcissist’s dream, taking endless photos of his feminized self to affirm that, yes, he really is a girl. Eventually, though, those photos won’t help. I fear that this once brilliant, funny, sociable young man will fall into an abyss as he looks down at his eunuch’s body and realizes there is no going back.
A group of trans activists are calling for a boycott of a clothing-optional spa in San Francisco after a trans-identified male was told he would not be allowed to go nude during a female-only event.
The Archimedes Banya, a Russian bathhouse on the shores of the San Francisco Bay, advertises itself as a space to hang out “with old friends, make new ones, or have a quiet time just to refresh and energize yourself.” As part of their offerings, the spa holds sex-segregated nights where only males or only females are allowed into the clothing-optional facility. The nights cater towards those of religious persuasions that restrict intimate mixing between the sexes.
However, transgender activists are now protesting against the spa after one activist, known as Breath Mormorer, was informed that he would have to remain clothed at all times if he wanted to attend the female-only night.
“It goes against everything that I came here for,” Mormorer said during an interview with local CBS News. “I came from Alabama specifically to escape that type of prejudice and hate. And I got here and I found out this city has just as much of it,” he added.
On his TikTok account, Mormorer, who pronounces his name Momor-ray, regularly uploads videos of him protesting for various trans causes in San Francisco. He is known for wrapping himself in clingfilm in order to produce life-size mannequins of trans-identified males, which he then distributes across San Francisco as performance art intended to raise awareness for “trans visibility.”
After the initial boycott started, Archimedes Banya issued a statement claiming that they stood by the “diversity of the Bay Area,” and wanted to respect both their “commitment to inclusivity” and the needs of religious and cultural communities who require gender-segregated spaces.
As such, they announced the introduction of two different events: an Inclusive Women’s Night, which they described as “open to all individuals who identify as women,” and a Cultural and Religious Women’s Night, which they state is “designed to provide a space that aligns with the needs of women from religious or cultural backgrounds who observe practices requiring a female-only environment based on sex assigned at birth.”
But despite the accommodation, trans activists continued their protest and took to form a picket line outside of the spa. One protestor, identified to CBS as ‘Jordan,’ claimed that the idea of biological sex, especially in religions, was not as simple as people claimed.
“In a lot of pre-Christian Slavic cultures there was a lot of, gender and sexuality was much more fluid than, and it was put down by the Christians, but even without all that, there are a lot of Catholic, Orthodox Jewish and Muslim people who are trans allies if not trans themselves,” he argued. “That response is really discriminatory when you think about it because if you had a night where you excluded, say, a certain race, that would not fly and we’re just saying, trans exclusive nights won’t fly.”
Another trans protester, Dakota Rose Austin, argued it was simply more evidence of hostility to transgenderism that has risen across the United States.
“As Latinos, as trans, as queer, as African American, the fear is turned now. If you weaponize DEI and affirmative action and all these other things that were a benefit of everyone in America and you weaponize them against us, now I’m in fear,” Austin said.
This is not the first time a spa has been targeted by trans activists for refusing to allow males to be nude around women.
As Reduxx reported last month, Archimedes Banya is not the first spa to face the ire of transgender activists. King Spa in Palisades Park in New Jersey, that models itself after the Korean jimjilbang spas that require full nudity in some areas, is currently being chased for compensation by Alexandra Goebert, a trans-identified man who was forced to leave from the women’s area after a manager became aware of his trans status in 2022.
In 2023, a court in Seattle ruled that a similarly Korean-based women’s only spa in Washington state did not have the “constitutional right” to ban biological males. Haven Wilvich, a trans-identified man, had complained to the Washington State Human Rights Commission, alleging that his application to use the facilities at the spa had been rejected after staff told him that “transgender women without surgery are not welcome because it could make other customers and staff uncomfortable.”
A popular folk festival in the Berlin borough of Friedrichshagen, the Bölschefest, has been cancelled because the organiser said he felt he could not guarantee visitors’ safety “against attacks by persons with vehicles”.
Planned for the weekend of May 10 and 11, the street festival featuring a flea market, food stalls, an entertainment programme and regional association booths, has suffered the same fate as several carnival parades in Germany following a string of car-attacks, a number involving suspected Islamists.
“We cannot adequately secure this road against attacks by people with vehicles,” Hans-Dieter Laubinger, managing director of Laubinger Event company, said in a statement on March 6.
“After consultation with the police, we would have to protect the road areas for vehicles on the Bölsche with concrete,” Laubinger said, although the entrances and exits for trams would have to have remained open.
In addition, all side streets leading to Bölschestraße, which would have played host to many festival-goers, were also not secured against vehicles breaking through, the organiser said.
“Our technical and economic possibilities are not sufficient to sufficiently block the open entrances to Bölschestraße,” Laubinger said.
Instead, the intention now was to hold a smaller festival in the Friedrichshagen market square on the second weekend in May, he told the Berliner Morgenpost on March 6 indicating it was easier to secure.
Streets such as Bölschestraße “are almost no longer suitable for such festivals in these times”, he said.
During the Covid pandemic the festival was cancelled in 2020 and in 2021. In 2023 construction works prevented that edition of the folk festival.
Despite the cancellation of the Bölschefest this year, a later event in the same street, the Bölschestraßenfest, was set to continue. The organiser of that event, the Capital Culture Association, said it would take all necessary precautions in consultation with the Berlin police.
In recent months, Germany has been hit with a number of attacks killing several people.
There were also several stabbings, with the most recent one taking place in Schönebeck in Saxony-Anhalt, on the morning of March 7.
Special forces of the State Criminal Police Office reportedly shot a 26-year-old Afghan after he had threatened a German of the same age and the police with a knife. The culprit later died in a hospital.
A man, a North African living illegally in the country, is checked. In his bag, the police find various packets labelled as such. They contain cocaine and marijuana.
The person does not deny that he was supposed to throw these packages over the prison walls. Messages on his mobile phone show that he has placed about 20 orders from prison since February 3. However, he said that it was a humanitarian gesture during Ramadan for the people in prison who lacked everything.
The government of Donald Tusk is escalating its assault on Poland’s Catholic identity, targeting religious education, traditional values, and freedom of speech. Through radical educational reforms, speech restrictions, and legal maneuvers, the ruling coalition is systematically eroding the Christian foundations of Polish society.
Poland’s Ministry of Education, led by far-left politician Barbara Nowacka, on Thursday, March 6th, announced on Thursday that Health Education will replace the long-standing Family Life Education in schools. The new curriculum, set to begin in September 2025, introduces Western-style permissive sex education based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, which promote sexual liberalism from an early age.
The curriculum encourages discussions on sexual health and relationships, far removed from Poland’s traditional, faith-based approach to family and personal development.
Despite government claims that the subject will be optional, parents fear pressure and social engineering in schools, especially given the Polish government’s clear ideological agenda.
This move mirrors the policies of Western liberal governments, where so-called “comprehensive sex education” has been used to normalize abortion, LGBT ideology, and the pornographic industry’s influence on youth culture.
While the ministry assures that parents can opt out, similar assurances in Western Europe have led to coercion, social exclusion, and legal repercussions for families resisting state-mandated ideological indoctrination.
Tusk’s government is also pushing radical hate speech laws that will criminalize criticism of LGBT ideology, gender activism, and leftist policies. The amendments to Poland’s Penal Code passed by the Sejm, also on Thursday, expand ‘hate crime’ definitions to include gender, disability, and sexual orientation, making it easier to prosecute those who speak against radical social changes. The changes include up to three years in prison for criticizing LGBT ideology.
Equality Minister Katarzyna Kotula did not hide her joy at the adoption of this far-reaching amendment: “The hate speech protection bill has been passed. The Penal Code will now include new protected characteristics—sexual orientation, age, gender, and disability. This is the fulfillment of the ruling coalition’s promise to social organizations, and I am delighted that we could pass this change together. The amendment expands the list of hate crimes to include four new categories, which will now be prosecuted ex officio, just like offenses based on nationality, ethnicity, race, or religion. The witch hunt against LGBT+ people from the PiS era is now just an infamous chapter of history”.
Paweł Śliz, an MP from Polska 2050, defended the bill, arguing that any form of hatred must be met with severe punishment.
However, the lack of clear definitions in the bill raised concerns among critics. Karina Bosak from the right-wing Confederation warned that the law could criminalize speech without clear legal boundaries.
“The scope of what can be considered a crime under this law is completely vague and arbitrary. If a court rules that a crime has been committed, imprisonment is mandatory. The bill does not provide for fines or alternative sentences. Handing out three-year prison terms for opinions on sexuality is absurd”, she argued during a debate in the Polish Parliament.
Lawmakers from PiS condemned the law as an attack on free speech, warning that it could lead to the imprisonment of people for expressing biological facts.
“This law has only one purpose—to gag people and imprison them for opinions that, in a democratic state, they have the right to express,” Michał Woś, PiS MP commented.
This law follows the authoritarian model already in place in Germany, Belgium, and the UK, where pastors, activists, and ordinary citizens have faced prosecution for expressing their religious beliefs. Critics warn that Christian teachings on morality could soon become illegal in Poland.
“This law is about silencing opposition. In Western Europe, similar laws have led to arrests for praying outside abortion clinics. Will Catholic priests in Poland be next?” asked Dr. Artur Dąbrowski from Catholic Action Poland, quoted by the Catholic radio broadcaster Radio Maryja.
Earlier, in yet another blow to Poland’s Catholic identity, the government cut religious education in public schools, ignoring the protests of the Catholic Church and the constitutional rights of parents. Religion classes, that came back to Polish schools after the fall of Communism, were reduced to one hour per week and scheduled at inconvenient times (before or after regular school hours) to discourage participation. No consultation was conducted with the Church or religious organizations.
The Polish Bishops’ Conference has condemned this move as illegal, emphasizing that Polish law requires consultation with religious institutions before making such changes. The Church has warned that this is only the first step toward removing religion from schools entirely.
“Reducing religious education is a direct violation of parents’ rights and religious freedom. It is an attempt to push Christianity out of public life,” the Polish Bishops’ Conference warned in a statement.
The attack on Catholic education and speech freedoms is part of a broader ideological agenda aimed at weakening Christianity’s role in Polish society. As Ordo Iuris, a Polish legal think tank, warned in 2024, Tusk’s government plans legal changes that could strip Christians of their rights and marginalize their influence in public life. The plans include restrictions on religious schools, funding for Catholic institutions, and potential removal of Church tax benefits (despite similar funding existing in most EU countries).
These changes mirror the trajectory of Western European countries, where Christian values have been erased from public life through a mix of censorship, legal persecution, and state-controlled education.
“If we do not resist these attacks now, Polish Christians will soon find themselves in the same position as believers in Western Europe: persecuted, silenced, and forced to hide their faith in public life” Jerzy Kwaśniewski, chair of Ordo Iuris Legal Institute, warned.
