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Hungarians and the Warsaw Uprising

The Editorial Board September 3, 2019

By Marcin Bąk. Originally published on Kurier.plus. Poland - Of the many brotherly pages in Polish-Hungarian relations, one of the brightest is the attitude of the Hungarian army during the heroic 63 days of fighting in Warsaw in 1944. Warsaw and Poles…

Interviews

Ryszard Terlecki: “In Poland, The Opposition Is Trying To Come Back To Power By Non-Democratic Means”

Olivier Bault February 23, 2019

Interview with Ryszard Terlecki, Deputy Marshal of the Polish Sejm: "The opposition is trying to come back to power by non-democratic means". Poland – In this last opus of our series of interviews with personalities of the Polish political life, Olivier Bault…

Society

Poland, Hungary and France: A Common Cause

The Editorial Board January 2, 2019

By Antoni Trzmiel. Poland - We publish here the translation of Antoni Trzmiel's editorial about the partnership we started with them. The dorzeczy.pl website, belonging to the Polish weekly Do Rzeczy, has begun cooperation with the Visegr á d Post…

Politics

November 11 in Poland: Celebration of the Independence Day and Political Ploy

Ferenc Almássy November 12, 2018

By Ferenc Almássy. Poland - November 11, 2018, one hundred years have passed since the end of the 1st World War. It is at the same time the centenary for Poland of the recovery of its independence after 123 years of partition.…

Politics

Regional and municipal elections in Poland: both a victory and a warning for PiS

Olivier Bault October 29, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The Poles voted on Sunday, October 21, to elect their mayors, municipal councilors, councilors in the powiats (cantons) and advisers for the voivodedship sejmik (regional councils) of the sixteen voivodeships in the country. A journalist from public…

Politics

Polish judges call for the Court of Justice of the EU against the parliamentarian democracy

Olivier Bault October 17, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland - The mechanism of the preliminary ruling that allows any court to turn to the Court of Justice of the European Union, is instrumentalized by Polish judges struggling with the reforms of the judicial institution voted by the…

Politics

Poland will soon celebrate the Centenary of her recovered Independence

Sébastien Meuwissen October 11, 2018

By Sébastien Meuwissen, Belgo-Polish student in journalism at IHECS. Poland - In a month, on Sunday, November 11, 2018, Poland will celebrate 100 years of recovery of her independence. The Independence March in Warsaw is the largest annual patriotic gathering in Europe.…

Culture

May 3, a national holiday in Poland

Sébastien Meuwissen May 3, 2018

By Sébastien Meuwissen. Sébastien Meuwissen is a Polish-Belgian journalist based in Belgium. Poland - This Thursday on May 3, Poland will celebrate its first constitution. Like every year, there will be animations everywhere in Warsaw. Picture: historia.org May 3 is a holiday…

Politics

Reconciliation between Poland and Lithuania in the shadow of an oil refinery

Olivier Bault April 11, 2018

By Olivier Bault. Poland, Lithuania - While Poland and Lithuania have common interests to defend against Germany and Russia – the opposition against the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is lead by Poland and the three Baltic countries –, they have…

Politics

Italy looks closely at the Hungarian elections

The Editorial Board March 28, 2018

By Massimiliano Ferrari, columnist at Il Populista. Hungary - The Hungarian elections will be followed with great interest also in Italy and especially in Lombardy and Veneto, the two economic-cultural locomotives of a country which certainly is a bridge between Europe and…

Interviews

M. Szymanowski: “The Visegrád Group is the symbol of a successful transition following the fall of communism”

The Editorial Board December 21, 2017

Poland, Warsaw - Interview with Maciej Szymanowski, Polish historian and diplomat, adviser for International Affairs to the Marshal of the Polish Sejm, V4 specialist: "The Visegrád Group is the symbol of a successful transition following the fall of communism". In mid-November, Ferenc…

Politics

How the European spruce bark beetle destroys the the Białowieża forest in Poland with the support of environmentalists and of the European Commission

Olivier Bault December 12, 2017

By Olivier Bault. Article originally published in French on Réinformation TV. The European spruce bark beetle is a beetle that colonizes the spruce forests, a very common tree in the beautiful forest of Białowieża, North-East Poland. Ecologists consider it a primeval forest…