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Is Poland’s crisis a coup? What the facts show and why it matters for the eastern flank’s security
The Constitutional Tribunal’s previous leadership and some commentators speak of a coup; former tribunal presidents of the president’s assault on the court. In Flank’s assessment this is a sharp institutional war, not a coup in the classic sense, but it weakens an ally on which the defence of the eastern flank depends.