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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

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,

As the U.S. Army prepares to send “150 tanks and armored vehicles” to NATO countries in 2015 they are weighing whether to station some of the heaviest armor in Eastern Europe.  The deployment is intended to bolster Poland and the

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

NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student tortured and murdered in 1998, are traveling to Russia on Friday to spread their message of tolerance and acceptance in a country where anti-gay policies and

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin finds nothing wrong with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in World War II. This pact basically allowed Stalin to design what became the modern USSR after WWII. At the same time, Poland announced new defense strategies for a

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland is planning a major realignment of its military structure because of the conflict in neighboring Ukraine, the country’s defense minister said Monday, a move that could shift thousands of troops to its eastern border. “The

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

On October 27, the Czech Republic’s Security Information Service (BIS) reported a sharp increase in Russian spies working in the country. According to The Telegraph, BIS said Russia had an “extremely high” number of intelligence personnel working at its Czech

Traditional student fraternities are under threat in Vienna as the local student union has called for a ban on their iconic uniforms and meetings in a move that has been criticised for infringing personal rights. Founded after the liberation of

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Israel announces plans for 1000 new settlements in East Jerusalem Poland to move thousands of troops east in reaction to Russian threat Israel announces plans for 1000 new settlements in East Jerusalem A view

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union leaders meeting in Brussels to stamp their new, ambitious greenhouse gas emissions plan should prepare for unyielding opposition from coal-reliant Poland and some other East European countries who say their developing economies and electricity

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s former Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski came under fire Tuesday from the prime minister and political opponents over a U.S. magazine interview in which he allegedly said Russia’s president offered Poland the opportunity to jointly carve

On Friday, Sweden — a nation that took a stance of neutrality during World War II, which was defined by the Holocaust and resulted in the extermination of 6 million Jewish people — said it recognized Palestinian statehood, making it

(Reuters) – U.S. troops and tanks will deploy across the three Baltic states and Poland in the next two weeks on a mission designed to deliver an unmistakeable message of NATO resolve to Moscow. The “Ironhorse” armored cavalry unit, with around

Pope Francis has demanded that serious cases of the abuse of minors by clergy be dealt with swiftly and rigorously. Tuesday, Fr. Federico Lombardi, the head of the Vatican Press Office, released a statement saying that it is the Pope’s

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland launched a major military exercise with international allies on Wednesday to test joint response to security threats at a time of armed conflict in neighboring Ukraine. Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said the original plan for

This week, some seventy years after the Holocaust, a death camp was uncovered in Sobibor, Poland, where about 250,000 Jews were exterminated at the hands of the Nazis. Nazi Germany committed a great deal of resources attempting to cover up the atrocities they committed

Germany charged a 93-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen-SS on Monday with at least 300,000 counts of accessory to murder over his time at the Auschwitz death camp. The charges relate to the around 425,000 people believed to have

EDINBURGH, United Kingdom – Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has attended a pro-independence rally alongside a Polish businessman who has been accused of defrauding his staff and then skipping his home country, Breitbart London can exclusively report.  Pawel Bladocha is

Poland has suspended deliveries of gas to Eastern neighbour Ukraine following a “warning signal” reduction of gas deliveries into Europe from Russia, cutting supplies by up to 45 percent over the past couple of days. The squeeze on gas, on

The majority of French people would like to see Britain ejected from the EU rather than see London’s demands for renegotiation met by Brussels, a new poll has found. The opinion is unique amongst the countries polled, as even the

Jack the Ripper, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, has been identified through DNA traces found on a shawl, claims a sleuth in a book out on Tuesday. The true identity of Jack the Ripper, whose grisly

Member of Parliament Jim Dobbin has died while on a visit to Poland with the Council of Europe this weekend, reports the BBC. Dobbin, who was 73 when he passed away, was the MP for Heywood and Middleton – a more or less

On September 3 the U.S. Navy issued a press release announcing the guided missile destroyer USS Ross was headed to the Black Sea.  The release also said, “The U.S. Navy maintains an enduring commitment to forward-presence throughout the region in

NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — Seeking to counter Russian aggression, NATO leaders approved plans Friday to create a rapid response force with a headquarters in Eastern Europe that could quickly mobilize if an alliance country in the region were to come

EU Commission President Jean Claude Junker has managed to secure nine women in his Commission line up, making it likely that it will now receive the consent of liberal, green and socialist groupings. The left wing parliamentarians had threatened to

Seventy-five years to the day after it was invaded and nearly wiped off the map by Nazi Germany, today’s Poland is more peaceful, united, and powerful than it has been since the late medieval glory days of her fabled 16th

On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany attacked Poland–beginning a series of attacks and invasions that would result in the fall of Poland and the start of World War II.  Adolf Hitler wanted to conquer Poland because of territorial relationships with

By midnight August 31, 1939, more than one and a half million German troops had secretly taken up their final positions on the Polish border in preparation for their ordered invasion that was to commence at dawn.  The last barrier