Dateline Warsaw – Women on top

Welcome to Dateline Warsaw with me Peter Gentle, where journalists put this week's top news stories under the microscope.

In the studio: Bloomberg's Warsaw bureau chief David McQuaid and political columnist for the Uk Guardian and Poland Today Remi Adekoya.

Poland’s new prime minister Ewa Kopacz gave the traditional 'expose', or policy statement, to parliament on Wednesday following the formation of a new government, after a cabinet reshuffle prompted by Donald Tusk being elected to head the EU’s European Council.

But is the change of tone at the Prime Ministers’ Office that PM Kopacz has been emphasizing after seven years of Donald Tusk’s premiership accompanied by a change of substance, both domestically and abroad?

What's new both in terms of finance and family policy; will Poland now speed up its attempt to join the eurozone and what did Ewa Kopacz mean by a “pragmatic” approach to the Ukraine crisis?

What do this week's guests make of the handshake in parliament between Brussels-bound Donald Tusk and leader of the opposition Jaroslaw Kaczynski, after seven years of what PM Kopacz referred to as “political civil war”?

And how did former infrastructure minister Elzbieta Bienkowska do in front of the European Parliament while being interrogated on Thursday by MEPs, before taking up her post in Brussels as commissioner for the single market?

All that, and more, in this week's Dateline Warsaw.