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Daniel Tilles

@danieltilles1.bsky.social
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Award-losing editor of Notes from Poland; ex-academic historian; polski repatriant. Views my own, RTs not endorsements, etc.

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Two recent incidents have shown how state-led efforts to promote Poland abroad often fall short. Yet the country has never had better international press. Politicians should let Poland’s achievements speak for themselves, and support those already telling its story, writes Daniel Tilles.
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Poland is terrible at promoting itself – but has never had better press
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The well-informed @politykainsight.bsky.social reports that Maciej Berek, who today resigned as a govt minister, will be chosen as a constitutional court judge. That would be very hypocritical for a govt that claims it wants to depoliticise the court. Tusk today called Berek his "right-hand man"
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
One of the standout facts in this great data-driven piece by @tomcalver.bsky.social is that the Warsaw region has higher GDP per capita, adjusted for cost of living, than any part of the UK other than central London
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
With growing military, economic and energy ties around the Baltic Sea, Poland's geopolitical focus is increasingly towards the north, unlike for most of its recent history, writes @danieltilles1.bsky.social.
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How Poland is becoming a Baltic power
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is being claimed as a victory for Tusk and/or Nawrocki but in reality the European Commission said in 2023 that Poland was likely to benefit from the migration pact - rather than have to receive migrant quotas - because it has taken in so many Ukrainians: notesfrompoland.com/2023/06/26/e...
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A lovely Polish saying I've just learned: jak szczur na otwarcie kanału. Literal meaning: like a rat for the opening of a sewer. Figurative meaning: being dressed in an ostentatious or overly formal way
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Gazeta Polska's cover was awful but, as a believer in free speech and media freedom, I don't think courts should be ordering newspapers to make apologies for insulting politicians. And I don't think politicians should be suing them to do so.
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I'm a strong supporter of Ukraine, but Zelensky shouldn't have answered this question in a way that risked making such support a partisan issue in Poland, where up until now both main parties have strongly backed Kyiv. He could easily have answered by saying he does not want to comment...1/2
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The former PiS government regularly clashed with Israel (much more than Tusk has done) and waged lawfare against domestic opponents. That didn't seem to bother Trump then, so why should it now?
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Among Poland's various aims during its EU presidency, by far the hardest will be teaching Europe to speak Polish in six months
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Last December, after elections that removed PiS from power, the proportion of Poles who said they were satisfied with the functioning of democracy reached its highest ever level of 55%. Now, after a year of Tusk's government, the figure has fallen back to the norm
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This is the Polish equivalent of DEFCON 2. The nuclear option is to get Polish grandmothers to release their strategic butter reserves
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It's amazing how little attention this announcement has received. The rhetoric of "migrant weaponisation" and the idea of ignoring asylum rights - as was promoted by parties like PiS three years ago - has now gone completely mainstream
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Święczkowski: nieopublikowane orzeczenia TK są nadal ważne, a premier, który ich nie publikuje, łamie prawo. cc BeataSzydlo @pisorgpl.bsky.social
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Daniel Tilles @danieltilles1.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Now that you're all leaving X, Kaczyński - who has famously had zero social media presence - has finally set up an account there
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