The Intelligence: Undoing PiS poor laws
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Donald Tusk’s predecessors in the hard-right PiS party captured the state and compromised its checks and balances. The newly-elected centrist party is having a hard time correcting course. A new NASA satellite which can map the tiniest of the earth’s particles is set to transform climate science (09:54). And a look at how motherhood hurts careers (17:41).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to thera Okenbye. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:21.0 | There are... shaping your world. |
| 0:31.0 | There are lots of questions that climate scientists are trying to answer in order to better understand and save our planet. One of the biggest uncertainties is thrown up by some of the smallest particles. |
| 0:37.0 | Could a new satellite finally shed some light on them? |
| 0:42.0 | And it's clear that there's a fork in the employment road for workers who become mothers. |
| 0:47.0 | But how long does that gender gap last and at what cost? |
| 0:51.0 | A new study puts a number to the motherhood penalty in different parts of the world. |
| 1:00.0 | First up though. |
| 1:03.0 | I knew that this is |
| 1:07.0 | I knew that this is probably the moment when they will fire me. |
| 1:13.4 | In 2016, Dorotanagrin was a senior editor at Poland's state radio broadcaster. |
| 1:19.3 | She was a news editor for Foreign News. |
| 1:22.1 | Matt Steinglass is our deputy Europe. news editor. |
| 1:23.0 | Matt Steinglass is our deputy Europe editor. |
| 1:25.0 | When the Law and Justice Party came to power in Poland, |
| 1:29.0 | they started making big changes at all of the state media broadcasters, firing a lot of people and turning the |
| 1:35.4 | broadcasters into a propaganda organ for their own party. They changed their |
| 1:40.3 | management after a couple of weeks I think something like that and then it came |
| 1:45.6 | those big changes in law which made it possible for them to change the whole management |
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