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End of love affair between Warsaw and Kyiv?

The Editorial Board September 22, 2023

Poland/Ukraine – As we reported on September 15, Poland has decided, alongside Hungary and Slovakia, to extend the import ban on Ukrainian cereals beyond September 15 after the European Union tacitly decided not to do so. In response, the authorities in Kyiv…

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Polish secretary of state allegedly ran illegal immigrant smuggling channel

The Editorial Board September 20, 2023

Poland – With the campaign for the Polish parliamentary elections on October 15 in full swing, a new scandal involving the Morawiecki government has just broken out. In a dramatic development, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Piotr…

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Poland and Romania join forces in arms procurement

The Editorial Board April 6, 2023

Poland/Romania – Just a week before Finland officially joined NATO on 4 April, nearly doubling the length of the Alliance’s eastern border in Europe, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Romanian counterpart Nicolae Ciucă announced in late March, from Bucharest, new…

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Visegrád Group Summit in Košice

La Rédaction November 26, 2022

Slovakia – The Visegrád countries have held their planned summit despite press reports that the event would be postponed or even cancelled. Things actually seem to have gone smoothly, and there was plenty of agreement among the four Central European countries. Photo:…

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Morawiecki wants to set up an “anti-Putin shield”

The Editorial Board March 23, 2022

Poland – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Friday 18 March his intention to set up what he called an “anti-Putin shield” with the aim of “de-Russifying” the Polish economy. “De-Russification of the Polish economy” In a recent press conference,…

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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on a visit to Warsaw

The Editorial Board March 23, 2022

Poland – A direct consequence of the war unleashed by Russia against Ukraine is that diplomatic consultations have been intensifying within the European Union. One such consultation occurred when Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki received his Dutch counterpart on Monday, 21 March…

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Inauguration of a statue of Lech Kaczyński in Georgia

The Editorial Board March 22, 2022

Poland/Georgia – Two days after visiting Kyiv to reaffirm Europe's support for Ukraine along with his Slovenian and Czech counterparts, Janez Janša and Petr Fiala, as well as his deputy prime minister and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki travelled…

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Polish, Czech, and Slovenian Prime Ministers in Kyiv to affirm their solidarity with Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 17, 2022

Ukraine – Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech PM Petr Fiala, Slovenian PM Janez Janša, and Polish Deputy PM Jarosław Kaczyński travelled by train to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday, 15 March, to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and express support…

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Mateusz Morawiecki calls for a strong European army

The Editorial Board March 1, 2022

Poland – On the fifth day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland continued to lead the mobilisation for Ukraine in Europe. In an interview published on Sunday in the German daily Berliner Morgenpost, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki spoke at length about…

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V4 leaders condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Editorial Board February 26, 2022

Visegrád Group – Fears of a military escalation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine came true at dawn on Thursday, 24 February, when the Russian army launched an assault on Ukraine. Faced with this situation – unprecedented in Europe since the…

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Split in Polish government after ECJ ruling on “rule of law” mechanism

Olivier Bault February 22, 2022

Poland – In 2020, Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and his Solidarna Polska (United Poland) party, which is an essential part of the PiS-led United Right coalition’s fragile majority in the Sejm, threatened to walk out of the government if Prime Minister…

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Turów mine: Morawiecki and Fiala have struck an agreement

The Editorial Board February 8, 2022

Czechia/Poland – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki travelled to Prague on 3 February to take part in the final phase of talks on the conflict between Poland and Czechia over the Polish open-pit mine in Turów, close to the German and Czech…