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Prof. Ryszard Piotrowski, a constitutional scholar from the University of Warsaw, has no doubts about the effects of the Constitutional Tribunal's ruling. — As long as there is no change in the law on the Tribunal of State that implements the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, and thus as long as a majority that is harder to achieve than an absolute majority is not defined in that law, the Sejm cannot adopt a resolution to hold the president of the NBP accountable before the Tribunal of State — believes Prof. Piotrowski. #TrybunałStanu #AdamGlapiński #Sejm (translated)

"I truly regret the American decision and it is not at all relevant to hold any elections in Ukraine as long as there is not at least a ceasefire, but preferably peace." Sweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) also regrets both Trump's suggestions to hold elections in Ukraine and the decision to allow the import of Russian diesel. #UkrainaKriget #EUsanktioner #Ryssland (translated)

The foreign ministers of the EU countries are simultaneously struggling with how to handle a whole range of the latest US initiatives - not least regarding the "energy ceasefire" that President Donald Trump claims to have pushed through. #UkrainaKriget #EUsanktioner #Ryssland (translated)

Niklas Orrenius wrote that Putin, according to him, just needed to register the developments and lean back. He claimed that Trump's ceasefire agreement in the energy sector was unknown to Ukraine and that Russia had violated it overnight. Orrenius also wrote that the EU and the European NATO had a growing responsibility for cohesion and support for Ukraine. #Ukraina #Ryssland #EU #RU #UA #EU (translated)

Ledarsidorna.se criticized Magdalena Andersson's objections to the Swedish Prime Minister's security policy focus on Sweden's neighborhood and the Baltic Sea. The writer described the criticism as an echo of Sten Andersson's and Pierre Schori's time and claimed that the ideas were still deeply rooted in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The writer believed that a less vigilant stance would betray Alexander Stubb and the foreign ministries of Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Poland. As a Finnish Swede, the writer stated that they were well aware of what Russia represented and claimed that the Social Democrats and Magdalena Andersson did not reflect the Finnish and Finnish Swedish view on security policy in their spontaneous comments to Politico. The writer called for more Finnish and Finnish Swedish determination and warned that otherwise, Sweden could again become subordinate to Kremlin. #svpol #sverige #säkerhetspolitik #finlandssvensk (translated)

HWL wrote that Europe had severely criticized the USA after Donald Trump's new diesel deal with Russia and claimed that Scott Bessent had subsequently exposed a historical failure. According to HWL, the EU had spent more money on Russian oil than on support for Ukraine throughout the war. HWL accused European leaders of taking a morally superior position despite having, according to the writer, financed both sides in the war. HWL also asked why the media and politicians criticized the USA without acknowledging what the writer described as Europe's own failure. https://t.co/TAv80BT7th #politikeuropa #USA #Ryssland (translated)

Jari Mäkäräinen criticized an article in Helsingin Sanomat and said he had made corrections to it. According to him, the nonfiction writer Ari Haasio and Mattila had suggested that Finnish identity was ambiguous, compared the mistrust faced by evacuees from Karelia to current fears directed at Muslims, and stated that everyone was a descendant of immigrants. Mäkäräinen wrote that migration was an old phenomenon, but migrations from different times could not be equated. He noted that the first people arrived in what is now Finland about 11,000 years ago and believed that this did not provide a basis for equating the current migration from Afghanistan or Somalia with the arrivals of earlier traders, craftsmen, or industrial founders. He described Finlayson as an actor that built factories in capital-poor Finland, brought technology, and created jobs. Mäkäräinen compared him to a Mohammed coming from Somalia, who he described as illiterate and dependent on Kela support. He believed these examples illustrated different types of migration and claimed that there were differences in education, employment, cultural distance, and criminality. He also claimed that those coming from Afghanistan were overrepresented in rape statistics. Regarding the evacuees from Karelia, Mäkäräinen wrote that they had come from within Finland, spoke Finnish, and shared key features of Finnish culture. He said they had faced mistrust and derogatory name-calling, but believed they differed from current arrivals from Afghanistan, for example, in terms of adaptation, work ethic, and use of social security. Mäkäräinen also denied the comparison made by Haasio and Mattila between 19th-century antisemitism and the Somali discussions of the 1990s. According to him, the groups were not similar, and Jews had mostly integrated well. He argued that current migrations should be evaluated based on their impacts on employment, crime, and social security. Finally, he wrote that the continuity of society required, in his opinion, the adaptation of newcomers. #maahanmuutto #suomalaisuus #kulttuuri (translated)

Russian-speaking networks are suspected of laundering nearly 3 billion kronor in Sweden, where the majority of transactions belong to companies from Uzbekistan, Ukraine, and Russia, according to a report from the Economic Crime Authority. #EkonomiskBrottslighet #Pengatvätt #Sverige (translated)

The result of the Krakow elections clearly indicates a demand for a new offer on the Polish political scene. The exit poll was also commented on by MP Ryszard Petru, who pointed out that "the result of the Krakow elections clearly indicates a demand for a new offer on the Polish political scene." #WyboryKraków #PiS #Gibała (translated)