Poland - September 10th, 2023, an unborn child left its mark on the world. The Catholic Church declared baby Ulma a martyr for the faith and beatified the child, alongside the baby’s parents and six siblings, aged between one and half years…
Czechia – In a video posted on his Facebook account on November 5, which the German and Czech press have both commented on, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala offered concrete examples of food products that cost more in Czechia than in neighbouring…
Hungary – The next European elections to be held on June 9, 2024 could see a reshuffling between the two Eurosceptic groups: Identity & Democracy, which includes France’s National Rally, Germany’s AfD, Austria’s FPÖ, and the Flemish Vlaams Belang; and the European…
Ryszard Gromadzki talks to Father Witold Burda, initiator of the process of beatification and canonization of the Ulma family, a Polish family murdered by the Germans in 1944 for hiding Jews.
Interview originally published in Polish in the 7 August 2023…
The dispute over grain and related anti-Polish comments by Ukrainian politicians have brought to light how far the interests of Warsaw and Kyiv diverge. It is necessary to speak to the Ukrainians in the language they know best – the language of…
This attitude was symbolized when the Polish head of state, President Andrzej Duda, announced at the NATO summit in Vilnius that Poland has no interests of its own, but intends only to play the role of an advocate for the Ukrainians.
An…
Poland – On July 31 and August 1, Poland commemorated the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising against German occupation during the Second World War. Among other events, a ceremony was held in Krasińskich Square in Warsaw, where Polish…
Hungary / Romania - Each year, end of July, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Băile Tușnad (Tusványos or Tusnádfürdő in Hungarian) in Transylvania – a region formerly Hungarian, of which many parts…
“The extermination plans were appalling. In the first phase of the GPO, the Germans wanted to kill about 100 million people” – says p rof. Grzegorz Kucharczyk, a historian from the Polish Academy of Sciences and an expert in the history of…
“43% of Poland’s historic buildings were destroyed or damaged. In Warsaw, it was as much as 92%. I think that to illustrate the scale of destruction, the example of our capital is the best. Before the war, it had a population of…
“The rationale is simple – the euro, according to the principles of economics, can be a single currency when the whole area has equal potential, that is, the same as Germany” – says Zbigniew Krysiak, a professor of finance at the Warsaw…
Detailed reports from German “death factories” and harrowing witness accounts – Poles tried to convince the Allies to stop the Holocaust but it was all in vain.
This article, by Piotr Włoczyk, was published in Polish in the “Do Rzeczy” weekly magazine…