Poland’s new pro-EU coalition government has said it is putting the country’s public television, radio and news agency into liquidation.
The move comes as part of its pledge to restore impartiality to state media.
Last week, Culture Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz took the state 24-hour news channel, TVP Info, off air and sacked the boards of the public media.
Opposition MPs from the Law and Justice (PiS) party called the sackings illegal and responded with sit-in protests.
President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, added the sackings had caused “anarchy” and called on the new government to adhere to the legal order.
In a brief statement, Mr Sienkiewicz said putting the…
