The fact Polish ruling party chairman Jarosław Kaczyński has been visiting cemeteries, while no else can due to the pandemic, is a symbol of the new Poland, a top European judge has said.
Lockdown-flouting by officials also happened in the UK, where a top aide travelled secretly to see family.
It has happened in Austria, where its president was a bit late leaving a restaurant by the evening curfew.
But the way Kaczyński has been doing it - multiple times, in limousine con...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.