Even before Sylwest, the Prime Minister dismissed the members of the councils of institutes supervised by the Prime Minister. 1 of them is the Zygmunt Wojciechowski Institute in Poznań.
The Institute itself became the subject of a media debate, among others, through a letter of employees to the media, which published Biggest journals in the country. They criticise the submission of the PiS to their institution, mainly in the context of the Board's appeal.
However, there is another theme. Since 2018, David Engels, a Belgian citizen who claims that Europe is dying, has decided to live in Poland. Over the past fewer years, he has frequently been shown by government media centers as a prominent historian and intellectual.
Belgian antiquity regrets the dechristianization of Poland
About the independency March he went to with his son, he said: “I am Belgian, and in my country there is no specified thing as national pride. Here the sight of all these Poles arrogant of the past of their country impressed me.” He is presently 1 of the most active abroad defenders of TVP. "At a evidence rate Tusk drove through all the milestones of Polish identity. Dechristianisation, migration policy, uniform media messages, political arrests, EU powers, LGBTQ policy, writes in German for conservative-liberal "Tichys Einblick". Speaking about the identity of Poles, it creates a considerable dismay in the nation, to which it tries to carry projections of its own worldview.
Engels is simply a historian specializing in ancient Rome and a political journalist. He comes from a German-speaking part of Belgium, is simply a postgraduate of an elite advanced school, a erstwhile assistant at the Department of Ancient past of the University of RWTH in Aachen, and then head of the Department of past of Rome at the Université libre de Bruxelles. It speaks fluently both German and French as its native languages.
In 2018, he left Brussels and moved to Konstancin. He was employed at the Western Institute, where he works as the chief analyst at the investigation and Analysis Division. He shows up on average erstwhile a month. Engels does not know Polish, and the Institute deals with completely different issues than its specialization. As the only of the 22 analysts, he is not assigned to any of the 5 investigation teams. These are: 1. Germany – state, society, economy; 2. Germany – Europe – World; 3. past and politics; 4. Western and Northern lands; 5. safety and peace.
So what does prof. David Engels do? The wall in the area where he works is decorated with a map of the Roman Empire of Caesar and Augustus, and he himself tries to combine his specialization with the workplace. He outraged his colleagues erstwhile he organized a Russian attack on Ukraine just after exhibition of caricatures embarrassing the European Union.
He is simply a critic of the modern world. He is head of the Oswald Spengler Society, which he founded with Max Otte, who is besides an interesting figure. He's an economist expelled from the CDU for behaviour detrimental to the party. After the execution of Walter Lübck on June 2, 2019, revealing the identity of the perpetrator and classifying the execution by the prosecutor as a political murder, he lamented Twitter's inciting incitement against the right. The entry rapidly removed, but caused widespread outrage.
Your taxes strengthen the fresh Right
In order to realize what kind of right-wing analyst the Western Institute is, we request to look at Spengler's character and his contemporary reception among fresh Right-wing ideologists and publicists in Europe. Oswald Spengler influenced many German movements questioning advancement and democracy, including Nazism. He felt that democratic political parties were aimed at controlling the masses and thus caesarising political life. Democracy according to Spengler destroys money, and money is defended by parties and universal electoral law, which is fiction, and man is kept in submission by the press.
There is no racial nazism in Spengler's work, but there is contempt for man, hierarchy apology, strong leadership, discipline, and slave capitalism of the 19th century. Spengler and another conservative German revolutionaries are besides a frequent starting point in Julius Evoli's work or the contemporary Alain De Benoist, in 1968 the founder of the first think-tank preaching concepts known present as fresh Right. This is rather an interesting metapolitical movement, opposed to democracy and capitalism, as well as the mixing of cultures within societies.
New Right advocates the revival of European identity through global ethnic-cultural segregation. In order to accomplish this objective, he seeks to influence the debate so that the changes he calls for are gradually made by imposing discourse alternatively of focusing his efforts on fighting for offices through political parties.
Potential realists of their goals The fresh Right doctrineists see European right-wing populists, Fidesz politicians, the Law and the Vladimir Putin administration in Russia in the last fewer years. Engels besides knows Alain De Benoist. You can find a video of De Benoist talking to Engels online and French Germanist Gilbert Merlio to celebrate the centenary of Spengler's book release Twilight of the West.
Engels besides wrote a book entitled What to do, how to live in the face of the collapse of Europe. The title is possibly a mention to Lenin, but it is recommended, among others, by AfD's leader from Thuringia, Björn Höcke, in whose case the court ruled that it could be referred to as a neo-Nazi. The Protestant theologian Harald Lamprecht accuses Engels of combining the Christian worldview with a deficiency of knowing for human rights and freedom. The erstwhile Head of the Faculty of Right-Right-Ectremism in Germany, Armin Pfahl-Traughber, mentions him as a typical right-Ectremist intellectual who proclaims that he should want for "the end of today's, seemingly little and little capable of acting in political order", with "the assault on parliaments" being "not yet" straight ahead of us, but nevertheless it must be shown "that opposition against the current social and political order actually exists and dares to turn words into deeds".
Deeper analysis of his work political scientist Markus Linden said: “Engels says Europe is characterised by a negative “change from a national state to a state of law”. Openly advocates the eradication of democracy." PiS policies defend, among others, the American libertarian periodical “Cato”, where he called the improvement of the judiciary an effort to base the government “on natural law and divine principles”. He is besides a Catholic fundamentalist: he believes that being a Christian and being arrogant of it is the most crucial work of all man. No wonder he besides approached the Institute for Legal Culture “Ordo Iuris”.
Engels was a frequent – although debateable quality – expert on systemic issues and the function of Poland in Europe and the European Union in TVP World. In German edition Russia Today He outlined a alternatively absurd analogy between the Republic of Rome and the EU, listing globalisation, abroad interference, demographic decline and its authoritarian character among its diseases.
Nationalist staff forge
How does the Western Institute in Poznań benefit from specified an analyst? What can Engels’ analysis look like, what language does it write, and what does it say? Many papers produced by the Institute are not published as they are in accordance with Article 2 of the Act of December 30, 2015 prepared for public authorities.
The publisher of his book What to do... is the "Tygodnik Solidarność", where you can besides read Engels' article in defence of the illegal Academia Christian in France. The initiative is presented by many of its supporters as a Catholic summertime school. The West Institute even posted on its website that its worker had given Academicia an interview on the Russian-Ukrainian War. It is described much more in item by members of the National Revival of Poland on their website: “Although AC creators avoid ideological patches, it is not a secret that it is simply a kind of forge of human resources for the French nationalist and identity movement. National revolutionaries from organisations formed on the basis of the dissolved Bastion Social (Tenesoun, Lyon Populaire), as well as characters specified as Christian Bouchet (Ars Magna publishing) host with their stands during summertime university. This is how valuable ideas circulate.”
Bastion Social is simply a neofascist group banned in 2019 after a series of force committed by its members, and Christian Bouchet is simply a veteran of the European far-right scene, known for printing works by Alexander Dugin, Jean-François Thiriart, Francis Parker Yockey, or Savitri Devi, convicted during the war for spying on Germany. This Hindu believer of Greek-French nationalism considered Adolf Hitler to be the incarnation of the god Vishnu and was 1 of the leading figures of the Nazi movement after the war. The fact that Academia Christiana is not a spiritual organization, but a fresh neo-fascist initiative linked to fundamentalist circles, also wrote a Catholic writing in France ‘Goliath’.
Is it possible that the Institute is unaware of who it employs? In May 2020 the Association of creators for the Republic, headed by its president Zdzisław Krasnodębski, organised a debate on the future of Europe. In announcing the event, Krasnodębski compared the European Union to totalitarian regimes: “We do not want to see this wonderful diversity which characterises Europe disappear, we want to see the creative differences between national cultures continue, and we besides realise that democracy cannot be without national identity. We besides powerfully reject social engineering, the pursuit of large-scale social experiments, the “creation of a fresh man”. The experiences of the 20th century showed where specified trials lead. Therefore, we defend the general principles and social institutions on which our civilisation is based, referring to Greek philosophy, to Roman law and, above all, Christianity."
He besides presented an intellectual experimentation by David Engels entitled Preamble to the Constitution of the Confederation of European Nations. In her mind, Europeans "are committed to God and their conscience to: preserving our spiritual and material heritage and further independent improvement of our cultural characteristics, as well as the conventional model of the family, and to assessing the diversity and diversity of European nations and peoples as an invaluable and irreplaceable expression of the multi-layered common culture, recognising them as the bearer of European thoughts and European institutions." The work even duplicates Polish Press Agency.
Krasnodębski was then on the Board of the Western Institute, with Engels editing books together. The Engels manifesto published in the network in 10 languages was translated into Polish by Dr. Justyna Schulz, who is inactive the manager of the Institute. Privately, it is besides a good friend of Krasnodębski. This means that the directorate and erstwhile council associate know this analyst and his views very well.
Due to the different past of the person's employment at the Western Institute, we sent the following questions to his secretariat on 3 January:
- Has the competition been held by prof. David Engels? If so, erstwhile was the recruitment announcement published, how many people took part in it, and erstwhile was the competition completed?
- We have asked you to supply us with the number of expertise, notes and reports written by Mr. Engels during his employment at the IZ and the number of Bulletins, Services, Monitors and another publications developed.
- Does the Western Institute fund Mr. Engels' travel expenses from his place of residence to his place of work and accommodation costs in Poznań? We asked for a list of paid nights and dates.
- Did Mr. Engels represent the Western Institute outside? We have asked to make available a list of national and abroad delegations in which the costs were possibly part of the Western Institute, along with the amounts given.
The next day we received confirmation of receiving the message and redirecting our questions to the Western Institute staff department. We're waiting for answers.
