Poland's prime minister on Thursday rejected criticism of bills concerning media ownership and property restitution passed by parliament, after the United States, one of Warsaw's most important allies, denounced the legislation.
In a tumultuous sitting of parliament on Wednesday, Polish lawmakers passed a bill that would strengthen a ban on firms from outside the European Economic Area controlling Polish broadcasters.
The opposition says the bill aims to gag the news channel TVN24, which is owned by U.S.-based media group Discovery IncU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington was "deeply troubled" by the passage of the bill, which he said targeted the most-watched independent news station in Poland and one of the largest U.S. investments in the country.
Blinken had also called on Poland not to proceed with legislation that is expected to make it harder for Jews to recover property seized by Nazi German occupiers during the Holocaust and kept by postwar Communist rulers.Morawiecki said the law was implementing a 2015 ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that a deadline must be set after which faulty administrative decisions can no longer be challenged.
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