POLITINĖS MORALĖS TRANSFORMACIJOS VIDURIO EUROPOJE: LENKIJOS ATVEJIS
TRANSFORMATIONS OF POLITICAL MORALITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE: THE CASE OF POLAND

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the Polish case as reflecting the transformations of political morality. Current authoritarian nationalistic regime of Poland is worded as democratura. Subjugation of the constitutional court and media to the ideology of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość party interests created an authoritarian regime. The article is substantiated with the critical view of the former dissident Adam Michnik; his critique of the situation in Poland reveals the political morality of the Polish right. The connection between 1989 Round Tabel agreements and the moral challenges of de-communization that did not happen is also revealed. At last the author considers how the new political morality of Poland is influencing the identity of Central Europe. If authoritarian regime forms in Poland and Hungary negate the initial concept of Milan Kundera’s Central Europe, if they negate the very longing to become part of Europe while being behind the Iron Curtain and ambition to unite with the liberal West on the basis of values, then today the concept of Central Europe has either dissappeared or in accordance with its idea has moved to the Baltic States.

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