Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk issued a warning on Monday following far-right gains in the first round of the French parliamentary elections. “They like Putin, money and power without control. They rule or are reaching for power in the east and west of Europe,” Tusk posed on X. He warned that right-wing populists would join […]
WARSAW (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who will be NATO’s next secretary-general, was criticised by other European Union leaders at a summit for his opposition to joint EU funding of defence projects, Poland’s prime minister said on Friday. Defence was high on the agenda at a European Union summit in Brussels that started […]
Krzysztof Alcer and Grzegorz Lepianka have been waiting for Poland to officially recognise their relationship for 21 years. But as the wait drags on, their anger is growing, their patience wearing thin. The Catholic country’s main ruling party had pledged to legalise civil unions. Six months into its tenure however, same-sex couples still cannot marry […]
Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died. It said earlier the soldier was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the bars of the border barrier. The soldier was taken to hospital in serious condition in the town […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died. It said the soldier was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the border barrier bars. The soldier was hospitalized in serious condition in Hajnowska. On Thursday […]
DUBICZE CERKIEWNE, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that its forces would further fortify the border with Belarus and can use “all available means” to defend the NATO nation’s frontier, after a soldier was seriously wounded with a knife by a migrant. Tusk said that a buffer zone some 200 meters […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister says the NATO nation should not exclude the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine and should keep Russian President Vladimir Putin in suspense over whether such a decision would ever be made. Radek Sikorski made the comments in an interview published Tuesday in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily. “We […]
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will announce details of the planned security reinforcement of his country’s eastern border on Monday. The plan, called Protective Shield East, envisages investments totalling the equivalent to about $2.5 billion to secure the border, which is also forms part of the European Union’s external border. Poland, a member of NATO, […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam. Huge plumes of black smoke could be seen rising over the vast area. The fire department said that […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday traveled to the the country’s border with Belarus, which is also the European Union’s external border with the autocratic state, and pledged to do more to strengthen security along its entire eastern frontier. Tusk accused Belarus, Russia’s ally, of intensifying what he called a […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday announced a reshuffle of his Cabinet to replace four ministers running for the European Parliament next month. The changes are also seen as a chance to bring new energy into Tusk’s government, which took office in December and embarked on deep reforms in many […]
(Bloomberg) — The curious case of an official in Poland’s previous nationalist government who defected to Belarus, is proving to be a boon for Prime Minister Donald Tusk a month before European Parliament elections. Most Read from Bloomberg Judge Tomasz Szmydt has become a front-page news in Poland after he fled the country and on […]