The European Commission has urged Poland not to adopt a new law, which, it says, could “undermine” the constitutional order. Frans Timmermans, the commission vice-president, in a letter on Wednesday (23 December) said the bill could see “the integrity, stability, […]
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FOR TWO decades Poland has been a leader among the post-communist nations of Central Europe, with a rapidly growing economy and mounting influence as a member of NATO and the European Union. So the sudden eruption of a political crisis […]
After losing parliamentary elections in 2011, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s Law and Justice party, declared that one day “we will have a Budapest in Warsaw” — using the illiberal turn by Hungary’s populist Prime Minister, Victor Orban, as […]
Tens of thousands of people have protested against Poland’s new conservative government for the second weekend in a row, saying they are defending the constitution. Demonstrations took place in Warsaw and around 20 other Polish cities. The Law and Justice […]
An 18th-century marble bust of the goddess Diana looted by the Nazis in 1940 has returned to Warsaw from Vienna, where it recently surfaced at an auction house. The return of the sculpture by French master Jean-Antoine Houdon, valued at […]
In the few weeks since Poland’s new right-wing government took over, its leaders have alarmed the domestic opposition and moderate parties throughout Europe by taking a series of unilateral actions that one critic labeled “Putinist.” Under their undisputed leader, Jaroslaw […]
Experts say linden wood figures at the top of a famous 15th-century altar in St. Mary’s church in Krakow are in poor shape and need strengthening. Jaroslaw Adamowicz, head of a team working to preserve the altar, said Thursday the […]
About a half-mile from the Russian border, hidden in the rolling hills of northernmost Poland, is the tiny village of Zywkowo, population 25 humans and 43 pairs of nesting white storks. It is one of the country’s largest stork breeding […]
Polish media on Monday led with the story of a Polish national living in Norway who was arrested in Poland on terrorism charges, after having spent several months in Syria fighting on behalf of the “Islamic State” group. The 26-year-old […]
Newly appointed Antoni Macierewicz criticised for saying hoax document about plan for world domination could be real Poland’s newly appointed defence minister has been condemned for entertaining the possibility that a fraudulent document claiming to show there is a Jewish […]