Tens of thousands of Polish nationalists descended on Warsaw, Poland yesterday to mark the nation’s independence day. Demonstrators burned the European Union (EU) flag and banners on display compared EU membership to Soviet occupation. The event, which saw attendance from
Poland’s president has effectively absented the country’s leadership from next week’s European Union (EU) summit on migration by calling the first new parliament sitting and formal post-electoral handover of power for the same day. Outgoing Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, backed
Polish football (soccer) fans unveiled an enormous anti mass migration banner at Sunday’s Silesian Wrocław match against Poznań. Images from the match last night show a giant crusader defending Europe from invading jihadists in boats labelled USS Hussein, USS Bin Laden and USS ISIS. Just a
Poland’s bold new right-wing government looks set to be an assertive player on the European stage and is already limbering up for tussles on migrant quotas and relations with Russia. But a leading member of the victorious Law and Justice
Contents: Eurosceptic party in Poland wins election overwhelmingly; European Union nations in crisis agree on a migration plan for refugees; Hey kids, what time is it? In Turkey, it’s Erdogan Time!
WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) – Poland’s eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS) claimed victory on Sunday in a watershed election that risks putting the ex-communist state on a collision course with key European Union allies. Run by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin
For the first time in Poland’s post-communist history, no left-wing forces have won enough votes to enter into parliament.
Poland’s conservative opposition is poised to win Sunday’s general election, according to final polls which suggest that its welfare promises and anti-refugee rhetoric have helped clinch a hefty lead over the governing centrists. Analysts however also insist the departure last
(AFP) – Poland’s conservative President Andrzej Duda on Sunday said his government should take steps to protect its citizens if it took in migrants as they could bring “possible epidemics”. The statements are potentially embarrassing for former Polish premier Donald
A former Prime Minister of Poland who said Middle Eastern migrants bring “types of parasite” as well as cholera and dysentery to Europe uses “Nazi” language, say critics. With national elections in Poland taking place at the end of the
Britain’s Defence Secretary has announced another deployment of British forces to Eastern Europe in a move that is sure to further sour relations between Russia and her Western neighbours. Although the deployment is small – 100 men deployed between Poland,
Lech Walesa, the former shipyard worker who famously helped bring down Communism in his native Poland in the 1980s has made his thoughts on the Europe migration crisis and religious beheadings clear in a remarkably frank interview. Speaking to the Jerusalem
Contents: EU votes to distribute 120,000 refugees among countries by quota; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán invokes memories of Ottoman Empire
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands held opposing rallies Saturday in several Polish cities, with radical right-wingers marching against hosting asylum seekers and others in smaller numbers supporting helping those in need. Some 10,000 nationalists and right-wingers marched in the rain
The recent discovery by two men of a Nazi gold train carrying valuable property said to have been looted in World War II has prompted a debate over who has a legal claim to ownership. Now the EU has been pulled into
Two men claim to have found a train laden with Nazi gold and gems which has been the subject of rumours and myth for decades. The duo have hired a lawyer and are asking for 10 per cent of the value
Polish immigrants in the UK went on strike today; some also donated blood and others held a rally outside Parliament all in an effort to highlight their own perceived lack of value by fellow residents of their host nation. The
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Conservative Andrzej Duda was sworn in as Poland’s new president Thursday, bringing political change to the nation’s top office. However, confusion surrounded the absence from the ceremony of European Union leader and former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.
Britain’s largest Polish-language newspaper has backed plans for a nationwide-one day walkout by migrant workers this month. Fed up of being unfairly cast as “benefit scrounging immigrants”, hard working Polish immigrants are threatening to strike. Upset by anti-migration rhetoric in the
Lord Weidenfeld, an influential British publisher who was helped by Christians to escape Nazi-occupied Austria during his youth, has set up a fund to help save Syrian and Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
In an act which has been branded “shameful”, pro-abortion campaigners are stepping up their campaign to deliver abortions to women in countries where the practice is illegal by flying abortion pills into Poland via drone. The “abortion drone” will make
Poland’s Law and Justice Party may seek another round of renegotiations will the European Union if they win the country’s parliamentary elections in October this year. The party – which sits with David Cameron’s Conservative Party in the European Parliament
Almost 1,500 passengers scheduled to fly with Polish state-owned airline LOT had their flights canceled after unknown hackers attacked the airline’s computers.
A new report from CIS Monday warns against adding Poland to the list of visa waiver countries — or countries whose citizens are allowed to enter the U.S. without visas when visiting for short periods of time — due to the risk of visa overstays.
The US will take a decision soon to store heavy weapons including tanks and infantry fighting vehicles in Poland, the Polish defence minister says.
