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US company Westinghouse to build Poland’s first nuclear power plant

The Editorial Board November 4, 2022

Poland – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Wednesday that his government had just passed a resolution on the construction of nuclear power plants in Poland. According to that resolution, it is America’s Westinghouse which will be commissioned to build…

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Polish coal production keeps declining instead of increasing

The Editorial Board November 3, 2022

When it introduced an embargo against Russian coal several months before the rest of the EU, the government of Mateusz Morawiecki promised in March that Polish black coal production would be increased this year by 1 to 1.5 million tonnes. It has…

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Environmentalists complain to Brussels about the Czech–Polish agreement on the Turów mine

The Editorial Board October 28, 2022

Poland / Czechia / Germany - German and Czech environmental organizations – Greenpeace, Bund Sachsen, and Sousedský spolek Uhelná (a local environmental group) – have sent a complaint to the European Commission this week against the agreement reached at the beginning of…

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Record inflation in V4 countries

The Editorial Board October 27, 2022

Last Sunday the Hungarian capital Budapest saw one of its biggest demonstrations in years. The demonstrators were protesting against Viktor Orbán’s government, and especially against deteriorating standards of living and low teacher salaries. The Visegrád Group countries face inflation well above the…

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Did Emmanuel Macron offer Pope Francis a stolen book from Poland?

The Editorial Board October 26, 2022

Poland/France/Vatican – A photo of the copy of Immanuel Kant’s Project for a Perpetual Peace offered by the French president to Pope Francis, whom he met at the Vatican on Monday, is causing a stir in Poland. On the photo of this…

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First Korean tanks for Poland to be delivered soon: There will be a thousand in total

The Editorial Board October 24, 2022

Poland - On 19 October, a ceremony was held in South Korea to present the first K2 tanks and the first K9s, self-propelled 155 mm howitzers. Warsaw has ordered 212 of these howitzers this year, with deliveries scheduled to begin before the…

Society

A humanitarian superpower to the rescue

Adam Starzyński September 3, 2022

Poland - When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, it became apparent that Europe would see a refugee crisis of the magnitude it hasn’t seen since the Second World War. Poland, being Ukraine’s largest neighbouring country and housing already…

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The 31st International Economic Forum in Karpacz will take place from 6-8 September 2022

The Editorial Board August 15, 2022

Poland - "Europe in the Face of New Challenges": This is the title of the 31st occasion of the largest annual political and economic event in Central Europe. Involving more than 4,000 participants from Europe, North America, and Asia, the Forum will…

Society

After the war – the future of Polish-Ukrainian relations

David Engels June 7, 2022

Poland - History repeats itself: the Germans want to save the world for their own good, the British want nothing more to do with the continent, the Russians loot in war rather than fight - and the Poles heroically fight on the…

Sovereignty.pl

Sovereignty or money: Poland is being targeted by “federals”

Partenaire June 2, 2022

This article was published online by Sovereignty.pl on 25 May 2022, and is a translation of an article published by Do Rzeczy. The alleged defenders of the “rule of law” are in fact very flexible in their approach to this term and…

Miscellaneous

Hungary first

Olivier Bault May 24, 2022

This article was published online by Do Rzeczy on 15 May 2022. Explaining the reasons why his country cannot accept an embargo on Russian oil, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said: “It is not a question of lack of political will, it…

Interviews

“Central and Eastern Europe must cooperate to counterbalance the old democracies of Western Europe”

Ferenc Almássy May 20, 2022

Budapest – The following is an interview with Jerzy Kwaśniewski, the head of the Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, Poland’s most powerful conservative NGO, who was attending the American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that was being held for the first…