Poland’s new laws dampen the mood for European Capital of Culture
By Jane WhyattHosting Europe’s Culture Capital for 2016 is an unexpected honour for Wroclaw. It is a provincial city with a troubled history of pogroms and ethnic cleansing that used to be the German town of Breslau.
And Wroclaw’s special year of European multi-cultural events already has its own troubles. Civil unrest prompted by the new PiS (Law and Justice Party) government’s actions has brought thousands of people out in street protests. Organised by the new Committee for Democracy they have demonstrated every two weeks since the reforms started. It is the cultural changes that have had the biggest impact,…
