Latvia/Belarus – While the news spotlight has been focused on the situation at the Polish–Belarusian border, particularly at the Kuźnica border crossing in the Podlaskie voivodship, and also, to a lesser extent, on the situation in Lithuania , a…
Discover the story of Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, the boxing champion who became famous for his epic fights in the German Nazi death camps.
Tadeusz Pietrzykowski began his boxing career as a teenager in the early 1930s. He was notably trained by the famous…
Poland/Belarus – Tensions continue to rise on Poland’s eastern border. On Saturday, accompanying a group of about 100 migrants to whom they had apparently supplied tear gas, Belarusian soldiers ripped out a portion of border wire while blinding Polish soldiers with searchlights…
Hungary/Poland – Following a telephone conversation with his Polish counterpart, Zbigniew Rau, on the evening of Wednesday 10 November, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó posted a message of support for Poland on his Facebook account , thanking the Polish authorities for…
An extraordinary plenary session was held in the Polish Sejm on Tuesday because of the tense situation on the Polish–Belarusian border. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński, and Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak informed MPs about the current crisis situation. …
Poland – In the face of Warsaw liberal mayor Rafał Trzaskowski’s efforts to prevent the organization of the now traditional 11 November Independence March via various legal proceedings, the leader of the PiS parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the Sejm, Ryszard…
Those wanting more liberal abortion laws were back on the streets in many cities of Poland on Saturday, 6 November. The biggest demonstration took place in Warsaw in front of the Constitutional Tribunal, which ruled a year ago that the clause in…
Poland/Belarus - The tension that had been growing for several months now at the Polish-Belarusian border suddenly reached a new height on Monday, 8 November, when hundreds of migrants – apparently mostly Iraqis – tried to force their way across the border…
European Union – Launched by the European Commission in 2019 and tied to a “climate package” of 12 targets in July 2021, the European Green Deal has again been much discussed in recent weeks, with the energy choices it entails being blamed…
Interview with Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was once a leading figure in the Civic Platform (PO) and one of the main negotiators of Poland’s accession to the European Union. Disgusted by the way his liberal colleagues sought to push through…
Poland/Belarus – On Wednesday, the Polish Senate passed an amended version of a bill to allow the construction of an anti-migrant barrier on the border with Belarus. It is already known that the barrier planned to stop the migration wave orchestrated by…
Poland – While Polish armed forces suffered two minor injuries on Sunday in scuffles with about 60 migrants who tried to force their way across the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Usnarz Górny, Deputy Prime Minister and PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński…