Tensions emerge among potential Polish coalition partners
Tension is emerging between the three parties set to make up Poland's new coalition: Civic Coalition (KO), the Third Way alliance and the Left, over the direction and leadership…
Poland: ruling PiS set to lose power
Donald Tusk’s opposition Civic Coalition together with the centrist Third Way coalition and the Left look likely to win a majority in the Polish Parliament, according to…
Polish election: Ruling PiS ahead but majority not assured
It's all over in Poland bar the voting with the poll on 15 October set to determine whether the ruling PiS gets a third consecutive term of majority rule or whether Poland…
Polish election debate: A rattled Donald Tusk trips at first hurdle
The much-anticipated appearance in a debate on Polish public television station TVP by Donald Tusk did not go as he might have wished.
Polish currency at risk from proposed EU treaty changes, says central bank chief
Proposed Treaty change “would mean the liquidation of the zloty, the end of our national currency, the end of our independence and the end of our own monetary policy,”…
Poland sets up evacuation air-bridge for Poles in Israel
Poland, in co-operation with Greece, has initiated an evacuation air-bridge for Polish tourists stranded in Israel.
Poland elects: candidates trade barbs ahead of crucial TV debates
Tusk’s move to participate in the TVP broadcast is something of a surprise.
Poland: Tusk’s chances buoyed by Confederation fall in polls
Poll ratings for the Polish right-wing Confederation party have slipped to around 10 per cent in most surveys from about 15 per cent in the summer.
Polish Right is ‘taking pleasure out of sex’
Wysokie Obcasy (High Heels), a women’s magazine distributed with Poland’s liberal leaning daily Gazeta Wyborcza, has published a text accusing the ruling Conservatives…
Polish opposition threatens to purge public TV within 24 hours if elected
The leader of Poland’s largest opposition party, Donald Tusk, has pledged that if he becomes prime minister after the upcoming general elections, he will change the management…
Poland: Ruling party rejects Tusk claim that a million marched in Warsaw
Donald Tusk, the leader of the main Liberal opposition grouping Civic Coalition (KO), has claimed the opposition "March of a Million Hearts" rally brought more than a million…
Slovak liberals and their EU allies went to bed with a dream victory but woke up to a nightmarish defeat
The former Slovak PM and leader of the SMER party Robert Fico scored a victory against the findings of an exit poll which had put him behind on the evening of September 30…
Poland signs deal with US for first Polish nuclear power plant
Polish and US dignitaries have signed off on the construction of Poland's first nuclear power plant as part of the country’s gradual move away from fossil fuels.
Ukraine denies doing Germany’s bidding to speed up EU accession
The Ukrainian foreign ministry has denied allegations that the country has been persuaded by Germany and France to act against the Polish Government in return for Ukraine’s…
Poland reintroduces checks at border with Slovakia to tackle illegal migration via Balkans
Poland has reintroduced checks on its border with Slovakia in a bid to curb illegal migrants crossing European Union frontiers in the Balkans and making their way to Germany…
Germany mulls reintroduction of border controls with Poland and Czechia
Just three weeks ahead of Poland’s general election on October 15, both Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz and its interior minister Nancy Faeser have signalled that Berlin…
Pro-migrant film ‘demonising’ Polish Border Guards takes centre stage in election campaign
Green Border, a prize-winning movie by Polish film director Agnieszka Holland about events on the Polish-Belarusian border, has been condemned by the country’s ruling PiS…
Poland claims EC President von der Leyen is ‘encouraging illegal migration’
The Polish Government adopted a resolution on September 15 opposing any tolerance towards illegal migration.
Zelenskyy says unilateral grain embargo ‘supports Russia’ while at UN meeting
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, criticised the grain embargo imposed on his country by Poland, Hungary…
Declassified documents show Tusk’s government sacrificing East of Poland in event of war
Poland’s defence minister Mariusz has declassified documents that describe how the government led by Donald Tusk (2007-1015) in the event of an invasion from the East would…
Agriculture Commissioner Wojciechowski slams EC decision on Ukrainian grain
European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski has publicly disowned the decision taken by the EC to end the embargo on Ukrainian grain for five neighbouring European…
Seven charged amid visa-issuing corruption probe in Poland
Polish prosecutors have charged seven people in the visa-issuing corruption scandal that has led to the dismissal of a deputy foreign minister and calls for the resignation…
Poland rebuffs von der Leyen on Treaty change
Poland’s ruling Conservative (PiS) party has signalled that a deal involving enlargement of the European Union in exchange for treaty changes that expand the powers of EU…
Polish minister says unilateral extension of Ukraine grain ban ready to be enacted
Polish economic development minister Waldemar Buda said a decree for Poland to unilaterally extend the grain embargo on Ukraine beyond the European Commission’s September…
Big spender Tusk vows to prosecute his foes in election manifesto
Tusk's Civic Platform party-led alliance has accused a number of ruling Polish officials of engaging in criminal activity, up to and including violating the country's constitution.
Poland threatens to extradite Ukrainian draft dodgers
Poland has threatened to extradite all Ukrainian men of military age who have illegally left Ukraine to escape mobilisation.
Hungarian opposition oligarch Varga buys shares in key Polish paper from Soros
Pluralis, a media investment company controlled by an arm of US-based Soros Fund Management, has sold shares it recently purchased when taking control of Poland’s prime…
Ukrainian politicians told to boycott Polish events over grain ban
Parliamentary deputy Mykola Kniazhytskyi told Brussels Signal that Ukrainian politicians will be absent from gatherings including the Karpacz Economic Forum in Poland over…
Polish opposition assembles army of monitors ahead of national elections
Poland’s main opposition block led by Donald Tusk said it will have in place more than 50,000 observers monitoring the general elections set to take place in the country…
Polish journalist ‘denied life-saving medication’ in Belarusian jail
Andrzej Poczobut, a journalist for Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza and a Polish minority activist, is being denied life-saving heart medication in a Belarusian prison, according…