Rzeczpospolita, an independent but critical of the former PiS government media outlet, in which the Pluralis media consortium, partly owned by George Soros, acquired a 40 percent stake in 2022, recalled that the Felczak Institute is the third institution to be liquidated since the new Polish coalition government took office in December 2023. Earlier, Tusk had shut down the Pokolenie (Generation) and De Republica Institutes, both also established under the PiS government.
Rzeczpospolita also pointed out that the Polish National Audit Office (NIK) gave a negative assessment of the institute's financial report in 2020. According to the institute, the paper wrote, this was due to the fact that it had only recently started its activities, but a year later oversight by the Prime Minister's Office (KPRM) also resulted in criticism of the institute, including for example the paying out of an additional PLN 194 600 to staff in 2020-21 without a legal basis. Although Maciej Szymanowski repaid this amount to the budget, he disputed the illegality and took the matter to court, which Rzeczpospolita's quoted article is silent on.
Cover photo: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (Photo: AFP)
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