In October, the courses of a new university in Poland will begin – the first creature born of the “great” education reform wanted by the ultra-right government – which has the ambition to “train the elites of the entire region” of Central Europe and Oriental, will be “founded on the values of Western civilization” and is committed to “defending students and teachers from attacks that limit academic debate and from any ideological censorship.” The Collegium Intermarium (whose name alludes to the coalition, Intermarium in fact, of 12 states within the EU along the axis of the Baltic, Adriatic and Black seas) has the declared aim of establishing “the most important intellectual center to influence the fate of Poland and Central Europe ».
It does not take long to understand how the new university, founded and led by Tymoteusz Zych, rector, and Jerzy Kwaśniewski, chairman of its board of directors, respectively vice-president and president of Ordo Iuris, intends to influence the fate of Poland and Europe. far-right Catholic organization, the gray eminence behind the most controversial laws passed by Warsaw in recent years, from the limitation to abortion (with an almost total ban introduced last year), the increased penalties for blasphemy, and the ideological crusade against LGBT communities and women, who would like to leave the Istanbul Convention and drag along “friendly” countries, like Hungary.
On 28 May at the inauguration of the Collegium Intermarium, in addition to the affiliates of the foundation of pro-life fundamentalist Catholics, there will also be the controversial Minister of Education Przemysław Czarnek, who solemnly pledged to put an end to the “dictatorship of liberal visions of left that dominate education ”. The same minister who calls gays “an aberration”, who argues that LGBT people are not the same as “normal people” and that women were created to produce children. His utterances did not go unnoticed. In December, over 170 academics from around the world – including professors from Oxford, Harvard and Sorbonne – signed a 14-page appeal against the new minister for his “homophobic, xenophobic and misogynistic” positions (here the document
From October the Collegium Intermarium will offer undergraduate and postgraduate studies (in Polish and English), with courses in law, international human rights law, family policy and NGO management. The inauguration, the rector Tymoteusz Zych emphatically announces, will be attended by the former president and prime minister of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus, the deputy prime minister Piotr Gliński and Judit Varga, Hungarian minister of justice, to seal the born “cultural revolution” of Central Europe, which aspires to cross borders much wider than those of Warsaw in a key that, according to the intentions, should save the Christian soul of Europe from the drift of LGBT and feminist “ideologies”.
Among the professors announced in the new university are several priests, theologians, and scholars such as Ligia Castaldi of the Ave Maria School of Law, specializing in prenatal rights in international law, Robert Oscar Lopez, an American academic who opposed marriage between people of the same sex and Stephen Baskerville, author of essays analyzing conspiracies against traditional marriage and family.