As Russia continues to reinforce its armaments along the Polish border, President Andrzej Duda said Poland is open to NATO stationing nuclear weapons in the country as a war deterrent against Russia’s “imperial ambitions.” “If our allies decide to deploy nuclear arms on our territory as part of nuclear sharing, to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank, […]
Former President Donald Trump met with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday night in New York City, with the duo discussing critical international issues like the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East, and NATO spending. “The meeting, which took place in President Trump’s apartment at Trump Tower, lasted for two and a half hours,” the […]
WARSAW, Poland—An exit poll released after Poland’s local and regional elections Sunday showed Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU party trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland for eight years until December. Sunday’s elections were the first electoral test for Tusk’s coalition government nearly four months since it took power. Poles voted for mayors, local […]
WARSAW, Poland—Strong winds in southern Poland on Monday toppled trees that killed three adults and two children, emergency responders said. A spokesperson for the region’s firefighters, Hubert Cieply, said two women and a 6-year-old were crushed to death in the town of Rabka-Zdrój. Separately, a woman died when a tree fell on her car in […]
Shen Yun Performing Arts gave audience members in Lublin, Poland, a glimpse of China’s 5,000 years of traditional culture on March 8 and 9. Among the audience members was the mayor of Parczew, Paweł Kędracki. He was very impressed with Shen Yun’s artistry. “The dancers’ colors, the dynamics of the performance all made a huge […]
A Ukrainian–Polish dispute over cheap imports of agricultural products from Ukraine escalates as Polish farmers block border crossings into Poland to protest the unfair competition and EU’s climate change measures, both endangering their livelihood. Polish farmers have stepped up their protests this week by blocking almost all traffic with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told […]
Greek farmers converged on Athens on Feb. 20 to protest mounting energy costs and EU trade policies that they say are making their businesses untenable. “There are many problems, most of all, fuel and energy costs,” one protesting farmer told Reuters in the Greek town of Kastro, some 75 miles north of Athens. “Last year […]
Farmers in Poland, Spain, Italy, and Hungary demonstrated Friday as part of ongoing protests against European Union farming policies and demanded measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced profits, and unfair competition from non-EU countries. Farmers complain that the 27-nation EU’s environmental and agriculture policies related to the European Green Deal are a financial burden […]
Polish President Andrzej Duda said he believes former President Donald Trump could end the war in Ukraine in a matter of days if elected president of the United States again, saying he “keeps his word.” President Duda made the remarks at a news conference in Rwanda on Feb. 7 when a reporter asked him whether […]
Elon Musk said that he believes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies inherently involve discrimination and are “fundamentally anti-Semitic,” amid the growing anti-Semitism in major Western cities and on college campuses. In an interview with commentator Ben Shapiro on Jan. 22 at the European Jewish Association Conference in Poland, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) […]
WARSAW—Poland summoned the Russian charge d’affaires and demanded an explanation for the violation of Poland’s airspace by a missile and an immediate halt to such activities, Poland’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday evening. According to the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, a Russian missile entered the airspace of the NATO […]
Legal battles between Pfizer and members of the European Union are heating up. The American drug maker is taking Hungary and Poland to court over those countries’ refusal to pay for millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses. This dispute is also shedding light on broader accusations of a corruption case aimed at the European Union NTD’s […]
Donald Tusk returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of conservative rule. Tusk, a former EU leader who served as European Council president from 2014–2019 and has strong connections in […]
WARSAW, Poland—The opposition leader who won Poland’s parliamentary election, Donald Tusk, appealed to the nation’s president Tuesday for “energetic and fast decisions” so that a new government could be formed quickly. Three opposition parties together won over 54 percent of the votes in the nation’s weekend parliamentary election, putting them in a position to take […]
Poland’s incumbent Law and Justice (PiS) party was narrowly ahead in Sunday’s general election, exit polls showed, but the liberal opposition appeared to secure a majority, raising the possibility of an end to eight years of conservative rule. If the outcome is confirmed by official results, the vote would mark a massive turnaround for Warsaw, […]
The war in Ukraine, it’s dragged on far longer than expected, over a year and a half now. And likewise, the information-war also rages on, from all sides. It’s normal in times of war but it makes it hard to know what to believe. Where is the war really at? Is all that aid money […]
The Biden administration announced Monday that it is offering a $2 billion loan to Poland—which has served as a hub for weapons going into Ukraine—to support the American ally’s modernization of its defense forces. The State Department said in a statement that Poland is a “stalwart” ally of the United States, and that its “security […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Wednesday that the country will cease providing weapons to Ukraine. This decision came shortly after Warsaw summoned Ukraine’s ambassador, amid a dispute over grain exports. Instead of sending weapons to Ukraine, Poland, which has been a staunch ally since Russia invaded in February 2022, will focus on arming […]
WARSAW, Poland—Poland began to enforce a European Union ban Sunday on all Russian-registered passenger cars seeking to enter the country—the latest in a series of sanctions on Russia in punishment for its war against Ukraine. Under the EU’s decision, motor vehicles registered in the Russian Federation are no longer allowed to enter the territory of […]
WARSAW, Poland—Police discovered the bodies of three newborns in the basement of a house in northern Poland, and have detained and charged a 54-year-old man and his 20-year-old daughter with murder and incest, Polish media reported Saturday. The body of a newborn, identified as the child of the 20-year-old woman, was found Friday in the […]
