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Ukraine’s Bandera commemorations going down badly with Poland

Ferenc Almássy January 10, 2023

Poland/Ukraine – The beginning of the year in Ukraine was marked by Russian bombings, but also many commemorations of Stepan Bandera, a particularly controversial historical figure. Such commemorations go down badly with neighbouring Poland, where people still remember the horrendous ethnic cleansing…

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Western media silence over massive US funding of Hungarian opposition

The Editorial Board January 5, 2023

Originally published in French on the website of the Observatory of Journalism, 22 December 2022. In Hungary, the fiasco of Péter Márki-Zay, an unsuccessful and extraordinarily clumsy candidate in the April 2022 parliamentary elections, is still unfolding. Last summer, Márki-Zay admitted that…

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Offshore wind and nuclear power to become the two pillars of Poland’s “decarbonised” energy independence

Olivier Bault December 17, 2022

Poland – As a member of the EU, Poland has committed itself to closing its last mine by 2049, the year it intends to stop allowing the use of coal for heating, while the date set for the closure of the last…

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Lower taxes and subsidies against the energy crisis in Poland

Olivier Bault December 15, 2022

Poland – The surge in energy prices began before the war in Ukraine, and this cannot be stressed enough. A little over a year ago, in early December 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki justified the “anti-inflation shield” implemented by his government by…

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Poland accelerates its transition to Russia-free energy

Olivier Bault December 10, 2022

Poland – Like the other countries of the former Eastern bloc, Poland long remained highly dependent on Russian hydrocarbons after the fall of communism (in 1989–90) and the departure of the last Russian troops (in September 1993), which ended five decades of…

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Photo report of the 2022 Polish Independence Day March

Ferenc Almássy November 12, 2022

Poland - For more than a decade, each year on the 11th of November, the major event happening in the Polish capital city is the Independence March (Marsz Niepodległości). For most people, 11 November 1918 means the end of the war, but…

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A humanitarian superpower to the rescue

Adam Starzyński September 3, 2022

Poland - When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, it became apparent that Europe would see a refugee crisis of the magnitude it hasn’t seen since the Second World War. Poland, being Ukraine’s largest neighbouring country and housing already…

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After the war – the future of Polish-Ukrainian relations

David Engels June 7, 2022

Poland - History repeats itself: the Germans want to save the world for their own good, the British want nothing more to do with the continent, the Russians loot in war rather than fight - and the Poles heroically fight on the…

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Mass Migration Always Has Unpleasant Consequences – Do We Know That?

The Editorial Board May 17, 2022

This editorial was published on April 28, 2022, in Czech language in the daily newspaper “Lidovénoviny”. By Václav Klaus and Jiří Weigl. Czechia - Ukrainians in their hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, are seeking refuge from war abroad, in huge numbers…

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Surrogacy industry still operating in Ukraine despite war

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault April 22, 2022

Ukraine – In the basement of a building in Kyiv which was temporarily used as an air raid shelter, the image broadcast around the world of a row of transparent maternity cradles where newborns sleep might have looked like a sign of…

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Polish Catholic and Orthodox reactions to Russia’s war in Ukraine

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault April 2, 2022

Poland – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill waited almost a full day on 24 February, the date of the launch of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, to speak and express, in a brief message, his compassion for the suffering of…

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Street prayers in Poland with Men’s Rosary rallies every first Saturday of the month

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault March 18, 2022

Poland – The last public rosary prayer in Warsaw, on 5 March, was attended by about 500 people and was recited for a just peace in Ukraine. For the past three years, every first Saturday of the month, the sidewalks of many…