Adam Michnik: Janša reminds me of the Polish right, with a bit of Orbán in him

Adam Michnik, a prominent Polish historian and founder of the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza, has cautioned that Europe, mirroring Poland's trajectory, is moving in an undesirable direction. Speaking at an international conference on the future of media, Michnik highlighted the intense political, economic, and technological pressures confronting the press. He asserted that these challenges pose inevitable consequences for European democracy. Michnik drew a parallel to the fall of communism, explaining that dissidents succeeded in building an underground information system partly due to the existence of institutions like Radio Free Europe, the BBC, and Voice of America. These outlets, he recalled, offered Poles, Hungarians, and Czechs the crucial message that alternative realities and possibilities existed, underscoring the inseparable connection between free media and democratic societies.

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Not only Poland, but all of Europe is sliding in the wrong direction.