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Andrzej Duda and his Baltic counterparts on a visit to Kyiv

The Editorial Board April 19, 2022

Poland/Baltic countries/Ukraine – Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on 24 February, Polish leaders have been at the centre of several actions organised to show Central Europe’s solidarity with Kyiv. After a first visit to Kyiv by Prime Minister…

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Jarosław Kaczyński denounces the European Commission’s anti-Polish obsession

The Editorial Board April 19, 2022

Poland/EU – Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on 24 February, Poland has been on the front line of taking care of Ukrainian refugees. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees figures as of 11 April, by…

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Central Europe standing firm for Ukraine

The Editorial Board April 14, 2022

Poland/Slovakia/Czechia – As Russia’s war against Ukraine is now in its second month, several Central European countries are becoming increasingly involved in supporting their neighbour. Eduard Heger shocked by the Bucha massacre A few weeks after his Polish, Czech, and Slovenian counterparts…

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New facts about the Smolensk air disaster in 2010

The Editorial Board April 13, 2022

Poland/Russia – On 10 April 2010, a Polish Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154 carrying President Lech Kaczyński and 88 other members of the Polish elite as well as seven crewmembers, crashed near Smolensk military airport, not far from Katyn, where the Polish delegation had…

Culture

Iga Świątek becomes first Polish woman to make Tennis World no.1

Sébastien Meuwissen April 11, 2022

Poland – Polish tennis fans can rejoice. At only 20 years of age, Iga Świątek became the first Polish woman to top the WTA rankings. Since her coronation at Roland Garros in 2020, the young girl from Warsaw has been one of…

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Now that Fidesz has won the elections, the EU is preparing sanctions

The Editorial Board April 7, 2022

Hungary/EU – Is the timing a coincidence? Probably not, as the same thing happened after the 2018 elections in Hungary: only two days after the Hungarians handed the Fidesz-KDNP coalition another mandate with a two-thirds majority in their 3 April parliamentary elections,…

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Poland and Germany demanding from the EU: 1,000 euros/month per refugee

The Editorial Board April 2, 2022

Poland/Germany – The war in Ukraine is continuously feeding the daily flow of Ukrainian refugees in its neighbouring countries (4.1 million according to the latest UNHCR figures dated 31 March, including almost 2.4 million in Poland), the Polish and German governments asked,…

Society

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…

Politics

Radosław Sikorski’s flights of fancy

Yann Caspar March 30, 2022

Poland/Hungary – Polish MEP Radosław Sikorski, who is the head of the EU-US delegation in the European Parliament, a member of the Polish Civic Platform (PO), and PM Donald Tusk’s former foreign minister (2007-2014), recently claimed that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán…

Magyar Nemzet

Judit Varga: Hungarians set an example for all of Europe

Partenaire March 27, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 27 March 2022. “Not only did the Hungarian people work hard for this money, but they are also setting an example for all of Europe by helping those in need. I believe…

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45 Russian diplomats expelled from Poland

The Editorial Board March 26, 2022

Poland – In yet another collateral impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war that has been going on for a month now, the spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lukasz Jasina, announced on Wednesday, 23 March that the Warsaw authorities had decided…

Magyar Nemzet

Hungarian words on the Poles

Partenaire March 24, 2022

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 24 March 2022. The two neighbors have been the shields of christianity for centuries “Hungarians welcome the Poles, A new acquaintance, an old friend.” – János Arany: Az Egri Leány (“The girl from Eger”) “There…