21:52 14 December 2020
Co-founder of Ordo Iuris to be one of most influential people in Europe
POLITICO has published its annual ranking of the 28 most influential people in Europe. Generally, there are nine places in three categories: The Doers, The Disrupters, The Dreamers, and the first, most important place for lifetime achievement.
Of course, number one in Europe turned out to be German Chancellor Angela Merkel. But a very interesting item is hidden in The Dreamers number 8.
It is the only Pole to fit into the 28 influentials and he is ... Jerzy Kwaśniewski, co-founder of Ordo Iuris.
"Kwaśniewski, 37, and his team, who have deep links to Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), are responsible for the proliferation of the country's LGBT-free zones, writing draft municipal codes and defending them in court. And in October, Ordo Iuris helped convince Poland's top court to eliminate most of the remaining exceptions to Poland's abortion ban, four years after its earlier idea for a prohibition that would imprison both women and doctors proved too conservative even for a PiS-controlled government. (It's still too conservative, it turns out: Following protests not seen since the collapse of communism, the government delayed implementing the court order indefinitely.),” POLITICO wrote in the justification.
