Regional manager U.S. Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights: This puts Tusk's government on a par with the regimes of Lukashenko, Putin and the Kims

A year after taking power, the government puts Poland on the list of countries threatening democracy. The granting of political asylum by an EU country to an opposition parliamentarian and a erstwhile minister - asylum, with appropriate justification - puts the Polish government on a par with the regimes of Lukashenko, Putin and the North Korean Kim dynasty.