More than half a million Poles have rallied for democracy after the country’s government signed a law that could effectively ban opposition politicians from public...
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An ear-bleeding mixture of simplistic melodies and lovey-dovey lyrics, disco polo has become a fixture at parties across Poland and a source of sizeable fortunes for its...
US President Joe Biden on June 14 made it clear that Ukraine still has some way to go before it can realistically hope for NATO membership. A former Polish president...
Editor-in-chief of the hugely influential newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza for more than 30 years, Adam Michnik has not just reported Poland’s recent history, he has...
The British media love Poland, says Jo Harper, but have been misreading it. He offers a few tips on how to put this right. I have spent the last 18 months studying...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
For many of the countries of emerging Europe, 2019 offers double cause for celebration: 30 years since the end of communism in 1989 and 15 years since EU membership in...
Father Franciszek Cybula, the former chaplain of president Lech Wałęsa, and Father Eugieniusz M, the custodian of the Shrine of our Lady of Sorrows and of the Basilica...
Teachers in almost 80 per cent out of Poland’s 26,304 primary and secondary schools went on strike on the morning of April 8. Last-minute negotiations between the...
Former Polish president and the winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize Lech Wałęsa has told the Russian news agency Sputnik that he believes Russian President Vladimir...
Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president, has told Deutsche Welle that the current Polish government, lead by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is unfit for office. “These...
Mick Jagger delighted Polish fans in Warsaw on July 7 when he told a crowd in Warsaw that: “I am too old to be a judge but not too old to sing.” Jagger, on stage with...
