PM Szydło dissolved anti-discrimination council

On April 27, Prime Minister Beata Szydło has abolished Poland's Council for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by a Law and Justice government decree (comes into force on June 1). The council was tasked with ensuring coordination between government institutions and local government bodies, as well with other groups involved in preventing racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The council also monitored and analyzed spheres where such discrimination was occurring. Poland's Council for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance had been established in 2011 under the tenure of of the centrist Civic Platform party - Prime Minister Donald Tusk (current president of the European Council).