PM Szydło dissolves anti-discrimination council

On April 27, Prime Minister Beata Szydło abolished Poland's Council for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by a Law and Justice government decree (it 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 occurred. Poland's Council for the Prevention of Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance was established in 2011 under the tenure of of the centrist Civic Platform party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk (current president of the European Council).