Marek Magierowski
Born in 1971, journalist Marek Magierowski wrote for Newsweek Polska, Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza. He is currently a columnist of the conservative weekly Do Rzeczy. He comments on the political current affairs in Poland and abroad on his blog.
Updated: 24 May 2013
Scotland, like Catalonia or the self-proclaimed Padania in Italy, is now talking openly of its independence. For these regions the European ideal is a political argument, even if a place in the European Union would not necessarily be a good thing for them. 
The EU leadership’s obsession with political and economic federation is the source of the current crisis rocking the eurozone, writes columnist Marek Magierowski. 
On 9 October, the citizens of Poland will vote in general elections in which the choice between the liberals, led by outgoing PM Donald Tusk, and Jarosław Kaczyński’s populist PiS, is also a choice between two radically opposed visions of the state of the country. But no matter who wins, there is a strong chance that the country’s voters will soon be disappointed. 
The debate about secularism organised in France by the ruling right-wing UMP party has been decried by the Muslim community as a brutal attack on Islam, while the Left has seen it as a disguised attempt to curry favour with the supporters of the National Front. But no debate at all is a victory for extremism, argues a Polish editorialist. 
The belief that we can recover from the economic crisis without compromising our "European Way of Life" is quite simply a pipe dream argues, Polish columnist Marek Magierowski.