Lithuania rail checks focus attention on isolated Russian enclave of Kaliningrad
Lithuania is threatening to effectively cut off rail links to Russia’s Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad and isolate it from the…
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Poland PM Morawiecki backs coal boost to offset rising fuel prices
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has backed higher production of environmentally ruinous coal to control rising energy prices because of…
European Commission launches legal action against Poland over supremacy of EU law
The European Commission is taking legal action against Poland’s nationalist government over attempts to challenge the supremacy of European law….
Poland blames ‘puppet master’ Vladimir Putin for migrant crisis as numbers grow on Belarus border
Poland is blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for its migrant crisis on its border with Belarus. On Monday there were…
Thousands condemn Poland’s abortion restrictions after woman dies
The Polish health authorities have told doctors it is legal to terminate a pregnancy when the mother’s health is in…
European Court of Justice orders Poland to pay €1m per day over judicial independence dispute
The top European Union court has ordered Poland to pay €1 million per day over the nationalist government’s ongoing legal…
EU and Poland rift deepens over declaration of supremacy of Polish law
Brussels has warned Poland that it risks exclusion from the European Union if it continues to defy the supremacy of…
Russia and Belarus warn Nato to avoid military expansion in Ukraine
Russia says any Nato expansion into Ukraine would cross a “red line”, while Belarus said it would work with its…
EU condemns Belarusian use of migrants as Poland imposes state of emergency
The European Union’s foreign affairs commissioner Josep Borrell has condemned Belarus and backed Poland, Lithuania and Latvia following a surge…
Poland’s anti-migrant government refuses to allow Afghan migrants to leave border zone
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Poland of hypocrisy over the 32 Afghans trapped for over three weeks at the…
Poland’s president signs state of emergency to stop migration from Belarus
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has signed a government proposal to create a state of emergency on the border with Belarus…
Vatican opens archives on wartime pope
The Vatican to 60 historians has opened its archives on the pope during the Second World War, Pius XII, who…
UK taxpayers to pay Poland to send trash back
More than 220 tonnes of “illegally exported” rubbish in Poland is to be sent back to the UK, which would…
Macron visits Poland to ease bilateral tensions
French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Poland in an attempt to ease bilateral tensions after he criticised Poland’s judicial shakeup. …
Israeli president attacks Polish Holocaust complicity
The presidents of Israel and Poland have demanded efforts to address anti-Semitism as they marked 75 years since the liberation…
Auschwitz to mark 75th anniversary of liberation
Auschwitz is marking the 75th anniversary by the Red Army towards the end of the Second World War, although Russian…