Marek Magierowski
Born in 1971, journalist Marek Magierowski has contributed articles to weeklies Newsweek Polska and Forum, and worked as section editor for the daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He is currently the deputy editor of the conservative Polish daily Rzeczpospolita, and the author of a daily blog on the Rzeczpospolita website.
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.