Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki insisted that he would defend his country if the European Commission tried to start a “third world war” by withholding funds to his country. Poland received a fine from the European Court of Justice of €1 million a day following an earlier ruling by a Polish court that its laws had supremacy over EU laws. The stand off with the EU captured the headlines across the continent but the friction with the EU is only a symptom of the problems facing the country. Roman Imielski is the deputy editor of Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest broadsheet…

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