Poles Apart
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Don't tell us how to run our country!' That was the word from Warsaw as the European Commission launched an investigation into some of the decisions taken by the new right-wing government in Poland; the authorities in India meet on Monday to evaluate the controversial traffic experiment in Delhi which was aimed at reducing pollution; the latest consumer spending figures in France offer little evidence that an economic recovery is underway -- but in Toulouse some people know where to get their food for free; lawyers for the Mexican drug lord known as 'el Chapo' have started to prepare a case against his extradition to the US -- some in Mexico would anyway prefer to see him face justice there. And there's something to sing about in northern Norway - after six weeks their polar night season has come to an end, the sun has finally made an appearance and it’s something to sing about!
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.0 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, today we are the worst sort of poles, the message for Brussels from tens of |
| 0:16.6 | thousands of demonstrators in Warsaw and other Polish cities. What now for Mexico's |
| 0:22.0 | recaptured Drug Lord El Chappo? Could it be a race between |
| 0:26.3 | extradition and escape? The great Delhi traffic experiment. It was no breath of |
| 0:31.9 | fresh air, but the driving was like a journey back to the |
| 0:34.8 | 90s. And after six long weeks the sun finally makes an appearance in northern Norway, and that |
| 0:41.6 | we find is something to sing about. |
| 0:45.7 | Don't tell us how to run our country. |
| 0:48.2 | That was the word from Warsaw this week as the European Commission launched an investigation into attempts by the new right-wing |
| 0:54.4 | government in Poland to control the constitutional court and the media. Relations between |
| 1:00.1 | Poland and the EU have nose-dived since the Euroskeptic law and Justice Party came |
| 1:05.7 | to power in October. One government minister said the Commission was in danger of |
| 1:10.3 | taking sides in a domestic political dispute. Adam Easton, who's in Washington of administration. the main reasons why Poles decided in October to kick out the previous |
| 1:34.1 | center-right and pro-EU government after eight years in office. They literally |
| 1:39.3 | did nothing, Voi-tech a 38-year-old civil servant tells me in his flat in Warsaw. |
| 1:45.1 | They thought that the market would solve all Poland's problems, but Poland needs strong |
| 1:49.4 | institutions, a state that cares about the common good, he said. |
| 1:54.0 | The governing law and justice party's vision combines a strong state, |
| 1:58.0 | nationalism and Catholic values with left-wing economic policies, |
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