{"id":1637,"date":"2007-09-08T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T08:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/come-on-poland\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T15:34:19","slug":"come-on-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/come-on-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Come on, Poland&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get rid of at least one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/spiegel\/0,1518,427614,00.html\">psycho twins<\/a> now that you&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/6984543.stm\">a general election two years early<\/a>. Poland should always have been at the forefront of the 2004 EU intake&#8217;s push for serious reform &#8211; but thanks to the Kaczynski brothers it has instead ended up both isolated and one of the EU&#8217;s biggest internal problems.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the run-up to the Polish parliamentary vote that decided on a snap general election, check out always tip-top Poland blog <a href=\"http:\/\/beatroot.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/polands-rubicon-crossed.html\">The Beatroot from a few days back<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/beatroot.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/polish-election-coming-spend-spend.html\">again<\/a>), and on <a href=\"http:\/\/beatroot.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/few-polish-turkeys-vote-for-christmas.html\">the vote to dissolve parliament itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/78fb784a-5d8d-11dc-8d22-0000779fd2ac,_i_rssPage=7c485a38-2f7a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html\">Financial Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/track\/news\/ext\/-\/http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?z1091293815&#038;z=950240734\">Washington Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/09\/07\/europe\/EU-POL-Poland-Election.php\">International Herald Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get rid of at least one of the psycho twins now that you&#8217;ve got a general election two years early. Poland should always have been at the forefront of the 2004 EU intake&#8217;s push for serious reform &#8211; but thanks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/come-on-poland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[185,187],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poland","tag-elections","tag-poland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}