Charting Poland’s post-election path

The 15 October Polish elections showed that the opposition leader
Donald Tusk, former European Council president and a former
Polish prime minister, has a decent chance of forming a new
coalition government to take over from the right-wing Law and
Justice Party that has been in power since 2015. 

In this episode of The Sound of Economics, recorded 20 Oct., our
podcast host Rebecca Christie sits down with Non-resident fellow
Marek Dabrowski, a former deputy finance minister during Poland’s
transition away from communism, and visiting fellow Paweł
Karbownik, who has been an adviser to Tusk in Brussels and during
the campaign. 

Together they unpack how the elections turned out and what might
happen next: what political and economic challenges the new
government will be facing, the progress it might have in the
standoff over the EU budget. They also discuss how Poland will
play a more important role in policymaking as the EU looks toward
new rounds of enlargement in coming years.