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Poland closes its border to Belarusian goods

The Editorial Board May 30, 2023

Poland / Belarus – Making good on its threats after the Minsk Supreme Court upheld the eight-year prison sentence handed down to Andrzej Poczobut, an active member of the Polish minority in Belarus, Poland has announced that it will suspend all road…

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Hungarian Chief of Staff causes diplomatic incident with Poland

The Editorial Board May 18, 2023

Hungary/Poland – Given that the traditionally good relations between Warsaw and Budapest have cooled due to their diverging approach to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Hungarian Army’s Chief of Staff, Gábor Böröndi, has just thrown a spanner in the works by making…

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Poland refusing to pay for Pfizer vaccines that will never be produced

The Editorial Board May 12, 2023

Poland – Given that the World Health Organization (WHO) has just proclaimed the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic which began in the winter of 2019–2020, here and there people are beginning to look for where the responsibility lies with regard to…

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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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Poland and Slovakia to send some 40 MiG-29s to Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 28, 2023

Poland/Slovakia – Polish President Andrzej Duda was the first to announce the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine, during the visit of his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel, on 16 March. Duda stated that his country was going to deliver four MiG-29 fighter…

Interviews

Grégor Puppinck: “If Poland chooses a liberal government, it will undergo a cultural revolution”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 20, 2023

Interview with Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ): “If Poland chooses a liberal government, the country will undergo an Irish-style cultural revolution. This would mean a cultural reversal and a big shift towards an excessively liberal…

Society

Polish minority targeted by repressions in Belarus along with democratic opposition

Olivier Bault March 8, 2023

Belarus/Poland - Poland may close its last remaining border crossings with Belarus as a retaliatory measure, according to comments made by a state secretary in the Interior Ministry, Maciej Wąsik, on Polish television channel Polsat News. “For us, [Belarus] is a small…

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Growing dissension between Prague and Budapest over Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 7, 2023

Czechia/Hungary – The Visegrád Group appeared for many years as a more or less politically cohesive entity, representing the specific interests of Central Europe against Brussels’ efforts at imposing leftist liberal ideologies upon the whole EU and its drive for ever more…

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Record low Sunday Mass attendance in Poland in 2021

The Editorial Board March 6, 2023

Poland – In January, the Statistical Institute of the Polish Catholic Church (ISKK) presented its annual statistical data (Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae in Polonia) for the year 2021 . The data shows a significant decrease in attendance in Polish Catholic churches in comparison…

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A Polish–Korean consortium to manufacture tanks and howitzers

The Editorial Board March 3, 2023

Poland – The Polish arms company Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa announced on Friday, 24 February, the signing of agreements to strengthen its cooperation with its South Korean partners. According to the press release issued by the company, which is based in Radom (some…

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Polish nuclear power plant: agreement signed with Westinghouse

The Editorial Board March 2, 2023

Poland – Following the decision made in early November 2022 by Mateusz Morawiecki’s government to entrust the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant at the Lubiatowo-Kopalino site (Pomerania voivodeship) to the American company Westinghouse, an agreement was signed on 22 February…

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Katarzyna Gęsiak: “Pro-abortion circles that publicise fake news don’t actually care much about the well-being of the victims”

Sébastien Meuwissen March 1, 2023

Interview with Polish legal counsellor Katarzyna Gęsiak, co-author of a comparative analysis of public opinion surveys on Poles’ toward abortion: "In my opinion, the pro-abortion circles that publicise [fake news] don’t actually care much about the well-being of the victims." The Polish…

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