Tag: Poland

LODZ, Poland (Reuters) – The European Union has given Poland more than 100 million euros ($125 million) to build at least three “ghost” airports in places where there are not enough passengers to keep them in business. The result is

All hail Jean-Claude Juncker, the man who would be King of Europe. Or already is, depending on your interpretation of the divine rights of monarchs and the gift of absolute power. On Thursday the European Commission president warned the UK

Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday honoured Holocaust victims at Nazi Germany’s notorious wartime Auschwitz death camp, now a museum in southern Poland. Cameron walked through the camp’s infamous wrought-iron “Arbeit macht frei” (work makes you free) entrance gate before

A Romani Gypsy who came to Britain in the first days of relaxed visa rules this year has thanked English taxpayers for unwittingly paying for his new house back in Romania, for which he is siphoning off £60,000 worth of

Talk is cheap. Right? Wrong. As you read this, climate worriers from around the world are gathered in Lima, Peru to talk about the weather. They are attending something called COP 20. That’s UN shorthand for the grandly titled ‘Conference

Poland has warned British Prime Minister David Cameron against his plans to reform European Union migration rules to curb the number of arrivals, saying this was an “absolute red line”. Cameron last week unveiled proposals including delaying access to benefits

BRUSSELS (AP) — Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk is pushing the European Union’s center of political gravity eastward by taking over the EU presidency from Belgium’s Herman Van Rompuy. Monday’s transition ceremony highlighted the increasing power of Poland within

More than 100,000 Romanians have applied to work in the UK over the last year, at least half of whom are thought to have already been resident in the country. Applications from Bulgaria also doubled during the last twelve months,

A gang of four thugs who beat a law professor so badly he needed facial reconstruction surgery all had previous criminal convictions in Poland, a court has heard. Kingston Crown Court were told that the gang’s ring leader, Dawid Tychon,

Britain pays out £5 billion a year to 415,000 foreign nationals each year, according to figures from the think tank Open Europe. The top-up means that a minimum wage earner from Poland can double their salary by moving to the

Euro MPs are set to vote to recognise the state of Palestine in a move designed to put pressure on EU member nations to do the same. The movement to recognise Palestine as a state has been gaining ground on

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Jakub Marczewski grew a beard six years ago because he was too lazy to shave. Now he finds himself in the middle of a global trend. The 21-year-old got his hair and beard trimmed at a

Is it just my imagination or was there a widely publicised report a few weeks ago by a professor called Alexis Jay describing in clinical detail how at least 1400 mostly underage girls were groomed, drugged and raped over a

The smell of money hangs thick in the air as black crude oil bubbles up from what is billed as the world’s oldest oil well, but this is not Texas or Saudi Arabia. The sleepy village of Bobrka in southern

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russian and Polish officials confirmed Monday that they have carried out tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions in an espionage affair that highlights intensified efforts by Moscow to penetrate NATO counties and a new determination by the West to

By “the Establishment” I don’t, of course, mean the toffee-nosed, elitist right-wing conspiracy which exists largely in the perfervid imaginations of Russell Brand and Owen Jones. I mean the new progressive Establishment which has dominated the cultural and political argument