Poland's New Lustration Law Divides the Country It Was Designed to Unite, Reopening Wounds the EU Thought Had Healed

Warsaw has enacted a sweeping lustration law requiring all public officials, judges, and senior civil servants born before 1975 to submit to vetting for communist-era collaboration — a measure that has triggered a constitutional challenge, split the governing coalition, and revived a debate that Poland spent thirty years trying to resolve through deliberate ambiguity.