Un-democratic moves mixed with anti-German undertones

Foreign policy analyst Eugeniusz Smolar wrote an article in Wednesday's Irish Times where he talks of the new government in Poland and compares it to what is happening in Hungary.

Kaczynski, who is now the real leader in Poland, wants to control all levers of power: the parliament, the government, the judiciary, the public media and, through pressure, even private business.

In a recent parliamentary debate someone said, with the backing of the ruling PIS ruling party: "the good of the people comes before the law."

Smolar writes: "And just durng the bad communist days, those who criticise these changes are called traitors to Poland who serve foreign interests - often with clear anti-German undertones."

He points out that since 1989 Poland has enjoyed the most secure period in its history.

Trump in the US, Marie Le Pen in France, Farage in the UK and the AfD in Germany. With the passing of every day it is becoming more and more worrying. And all the time too the right wing inlfuence within the Catholic Church is becoming more influential.

What is it about institutional religion and its links with the right wing?