KRRiTV gives approval to sister TV channel for Radio Maryja

Father Rydzyk, whose popular radio station is leading a campaign against Poland joining the EU, won approval on Thursday to launch his television station. The priest whose anti-EU views are in conflict with Catholic church wants his satellite channel Trwam (I follow) to be more commercial than his ultra-Catholic Radio Maryja. Rydzyk, who recently said Poles would become "servants" in the EU, has not said whether the satellite channel will campaign against EU entry ahead of an accession referendum in June. The National Radio and Television Council (KRRiTV) said it had found no formal reason to deny Rydzyk's foundation Lux Veritas a television license. Radio Maryja, one of the most successful national stations with four million listeners, often argues that by joining the EU Poland risks losing its sovereignty to Brussels and traditional family values will be undermined by western secularism. (Reuters) A.K.