{"id":136714,"date":"2025-05-27T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136714\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:39:08","slug":"us-republicans-slam-eu-double-standard-over-polish-election-financing-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/136714\/","title":{"rendered":"US Republicans slam EU \u2018double standard\u2019 over Polish election financing \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mast accused the Commission of having a \u201cdouble standard\u201d in election rules that could tilt the balance in favor of Trzaskowski.<\/p>\n

The first complaint is a May 15 Polish media report<\/a> about a political advertising campaign favoring Trzaskowski by an NGO, which the report and Mast linked to operatives from the U.S. Democratic party.<\/p>\n

NASK, Poland\u2019s state body tasked with countering online disinformation, reported that paid Facebook campaigns, apparently funded from outside Poland, appear to have promoted Trzaskowski while discrediting Nawrocki and far-right candidate S\u0142awomir Mentzen.<\/p>\n

\"\"The letter from Brian Mast is part of a broader interest by Republicans in supporting right-wing populists in Europe. | Shawn Thew\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n

\u201cNASK said its analyses could not conclusively determine the source of the funding for the Facebook campaign or who commissioned it. Analysts did not rule out the possibility of provocation and stated that resolving the case requires action by the country\u2019s security services,\u201d the Digital Affairs Ministry told POLITICO in an emailed response.<\/p>\n

The case was reported to the Internal Security Agency and the National Electoral Office while Meta was asked to remove the ads, the ministry said. Meta claimed the ads\u2019 runtime had expired by the time the issue was made public and they were not accessible anymore.<\/p>\n

When Nawrocki raised the issue during a recent debate \u2014 accusing Trzaskowski of getting money from Germany and liberal financier George Soros \u2014 Trzaskowski denied any improper financing and threatened Nawrocki with a lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mast accused the Commission of having a \u201cdouble standard\u201d in election rules that could tilt the balance in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[31,32,5898,2000,299,5187,1824,601,770,59740,18241,56593,1438,48510,7338,1772,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-136714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-democracy","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-donald-tusk","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-jd-vance","16":"tag-poland","17":"tag-poland-election-2025","18":"tag-polish-politics","19":"tag-rafal-trzaskowski","20":"tag-romania","21":"tag-romanian-presidential-election-2025","22":"tag-rule-of-law","23":"tag-u-s-politics","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114581495161948006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}