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How did it happen that that most people in, say, Poland, or Hungary, still believe that the old verities—of faith and family, of patriotism and nationalism—are valuable and worth conserving? And at the same time, how did it happen that so many people in the West have come to believe that those old verities are obsolete, if not downright false?

Polish ambassador to Sweden Wiesław Tarka has slammed Swedish left-wing paper Dagens Nyheter and its editor in chief Peter Wolodarski claiming the paper presented “one-sided and very often untrue descriptions of the situation in Poland”.

Poland’s parliament has voted to slowly begin the process of abolishing Sunday shopping to allow workers to spend more time with their families.

Polish police have launched an investigation after a mosque and Muslim cultural centre in the national capital Warsaw had its windows smashed overnight. Security guards at the building, which was opened in 2015 and contains both a cultural centre and mosque,

Migrants from outside the European Union (EU) were handed residence permits to live in Britain at the rate of one every 36 seconds last year, new data has revealed. During 2016, the UK granted 865,894 non-EU migrants the right to

Eliahu Pietruszka shuffled his 102-year-old body through the lobby of his retirement home toward a stranger he had never met and collapsed into him in a teary embrace. Then he kissed both cheeks of his visitor and in a frail, squeaky voice began blurting out greetings in Russian, a language he hadn’t spoken in decades.

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has launched an astonishing attack on the Polish government, calling his ability to act as an honest broker between EU member-states into question.

Poland has hit back after the European Parliament voted in support of launching sanctions against it.

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Unlike Germany, which believes mass migration from third world countries is the only way to solve their demographic decline, Poland encourages couples to make their own citizens by ‘breeding like rabbits’, with the help of an educational video from the Polish health ministry.

A senior Polish politician has hit back as Britain’s state broadcaster the BBC prepares to air a new documentary on the politics of Central European Visegrád nations Poland and Hungary in which it will accuse the anti-mass migration governments of being anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, and corrupt.

Both ruling parties in Hungary and Poland are seeing a surge in public backing following their sustained rejection of internationalist bodies’ pro-mass migration policies, signalling citizens prefer governments that stand by conservative values and protect their nations’ borders.

Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah has praised Poland for standing up to the European Union’s “immigration logic” and fighting to preserve its own cultural identity but not allowing the nation to be overrun with migrants.

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Less than two weeks after Poland’s massive “Rosary at the Borders” event, Archbishop Wojciech Polak has warned the priests of his diocese that he will not hesitate to suspend anyone who takes part in anti-immigrant activities.

Reporting on the extraordinary turnout for the “Rosary on the Borders” prayer campaign in Poland, the Associated Press (AP) suggested that the event smacked of “a problematic expression of Islamophobia.”

The campaign to force the German government to pay billions – if not trillions – of euros to Poland in damages for the destruction caused during the Second World War has gained a new voice in the form of a British Conservative Member of Parliament.

Thousands of Catholics formed a human chain along the borders of Poland on the anniversary of an historic victory by Europe over the Ottoman Empire officially to pray for peace, unofficially “against the Islamisation of Europe”.

A senior eurocrat has accused Poland of “abdicating” its leading role in Central Europe by refusing to bend to the EU’s demands on migrant quotas and internal judicial reforms, and warned the country poses a greater existential threat to the bloc than Brexit.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry says the nation’s permanent representative to the European Union has stepped down and the resignation has been accepted.

Brussels’ insistence on ordering European Union (EU) nations to accept third world migrants could lead to the bloc’s break-up, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda has warned.

Poland’s bishops have urged the nation’s Catholics to join a massive rosary prayer crusade along the country’s 2,000-mile border to pray for the salvation of their country.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister says her government intends to raise the issue of reparations for World War II damage, even though Germany considers the matter closed.

European president Donald Tusk has rebuffed the offers made by British Prime Minister Theresa May while standing outside 10 Downing Street Tuesday, saying Britain would not be able to “have your cake and eat it”.

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First Lady Melania Trump went bold for her speech at the United Nations in New York City Wednesday, wearing a bright, magenta coat with structural sleeves and matching stiletto heels.

Poland’s traditionally conservative, nationalist government is experiencing record support, despite widespread international media coverage of a number of protests that have been launched by foreign-funded groups.

Poland’s most powerful politician has denounced anti-Semitism and praised the “great” state of Israel at a ceremony honoring Poles who protected Jews during the Holocaust.

Thousands of people from across Poland have descended on the European Commission offices in Warsaw to protest the European Union’s (EU) growing interference with Polish laws.

The President of Poland has said “There is no doubt the growing wave of terrorism is linked to migration” following the latest terror bombing in London.

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit negotiations, has labelled Donald Trump a white supremacist and the conservative governments of Poland and Hungary “alt-right” in remarks following the annual State of the European Union address.

Poland’s Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski announced his country’s intention to defy the latest European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that would force Poland to take in migrants.

(AP) — Poland’s prime minister says her country will stick by its refusal to take in refugees even though the European Union’s top court is reasserting its right to force member states to accept asylum-seekers.

Four suspects with roots in the Congo, Nigeria, and Morocco have been arrested following the assault, robbery, and gang rape of a Polish couple and a Peruvian transsexual in Rimini, Italy.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish defence minister has accused the leaders of Germany and France of trying to “erase from Europe’s historical memory” the tragic fate Poland suffered during World War II at German hands.

In recent times, the European Union (EU) seems to have an issue with Polish national sovereignty. Whether it is pressure to change domestic law courts, or demands to accept forced immigrant quotas, the EU appears intent to undermine the legitimacy of the democratically elected, and accountable, Polish government.