A special division of Poland's politicized National Prosecutor's Office is seeking charges against a prosecutor from Pozna� for allegedly insulting the leader of the Law and Justice party Jaros�aw Kaczy�ski with a satirical poster. A local court...
Due to the still unresolved conflict between the Polish government and air traffic controllers, starting May 1, Poland could see a drastic reduction in flights to and from Warsaw. Thousands of passengers are likely to have their flights cancelled.
Gazprom announced it will halt gas deliveries to Poland along the Yamal pipeline as soon as Wednesday morning. Russia is suspending the contract with Poland's state-controlled energy company PGNiG because Poland refused to pay for the gas in rubles-...
The Polish government is wasting money on a half-witted propaganda campaign, instead of using it to support humanitarian aid organizations helping Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country.
Polish prosecutors are unable to effectively prosecute crimes against the EU's financial interests when people associated with the Law and Justice party are involved. Therefore, a condition of receiving money from the Reconstruction Fund should be...
While it would be unfair to say that the West has completely failed to respond to the challenges of the moment and left Kyiv with no aid whatsoever, the Western response has so far been rather unhurried and overly cautious.
While many Poles were preoccupied with holiday celebrations, last Friday, President Duda has quietly signed a bill that prohibits the renaming of streets commemorating controversial historical figures. The new law also bans the removal of monuments...
Volodymyr Zelensky: "When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before".
On the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, we recall the testimonies of the residents of the Ghetto. There were some people in there who documented every day of their life, creating a unique underground archive.
Jacek Polewski, a baker and owner of the "Czarny chleb" bakery in Pozna�, decided to travel to Bucha to bake bread for local civilians and soldiers. He also wants to help rebuild a local bakery that has been damaged and looted by Russian troops.
Not a single member of Poland's ruling camp is taking Antoni Macierewicz's and Jaros�aw Kaczy�ski's conspiracy theories about the Smole�sk air disaster seriously. These absurd allegations are simply meant to cater to the ruling party's most loyal...
On Monday, Amnesty International released a new chilling report about the "illegal pushbacks, arbitrary detention, and inhumane detention conditions" of refugees and migrants at the Poland-Belarus border. The report also describes the dire...
Shortly after a meeting between PM Morawiecki and the CEO of Google, Poland announced that it will block the EU's plan to make the world's biggest digital platform companies pay their fair share of taxes.
Known for its openly xenophobic and anti-migrant attitude, a Polish organization associated with the former leader of the National Radical Camp Robert B�kiewicz will receive over PLN 250.000 from a state fund dedicated to NGOs helping Ukrainian war...
Morally and logically, we have to do everything within our power to stop Ukrainians innocents being slaughtered is the cause we should all be advocating otherwise we are rewarding Russian aggression and delaying the inevitable.
Each day of the war in Ukraine brings to light new evidence confirming that Russian troops are regularly committing acts of sexual violence against Ukrainian women. Ever more accounts of rape involving Russian soldiers are also reported in Poland,...
The Polish ruling camp has no intention to end its political friendship with Viktor Orb�n. Despite the fact that after winning the elections, the Hungarian prime minister immediately mocked the Ukrainian president and accepted congratulations from...
Before the 2023 elections, nearly 2 million households with old TV sets and antennas will lose access to the news programs of private, independent TV broadcasters (TVN and Polsat), unless they replace or upgrade their electronic equipment. Instead,...
The situation on the Poland-Belarus border remains unchanged: refugees and activists who help them face increased persecution and are forced to play "hide and seek" with the authorities. Wyborcza's journalist spent several days in a Polish village...
Responding to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, on Monday, Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki called on EU leaders to implement actions that will "finally break Putin's war machine". At the same time, he criticized Germany for its appeasement...
While the world is praising Poland for its warm welcome of Ukrainian refugees, asylum seekers trying to cross the country's border from Belarus are facing inhuman and degrading conditions. Activists on site report cases of child rape by Belarusian...
We often hear that in times of war, political divisions should be put aside. As Polish government officials like to say, this isn't "the right time" to discuss petty domestic issues. Yet, it's apparently the "right time" for them to continue to...
"Ukrainian journalists do not want to leave their country. They want to be on the front lines, just like their fellow countrymen. The least we can do is to support them. That is why we are sending them bulletproof vests, cameras, video recorders....
Macron and many American diplomats criticized Biden's words that Putin "cannot remain in power" as an unnecessary "verbal escalation". Yet, unlike diplomats, the leader of the free world can and should sometimes call things what they actually are....
The first casualty of war is often truth. In Poland's case, democracy, which has already suffered a serious setback, might be yet another war victim. PiS will certainly use the opportunity to continue with its authoritarian power grab. This should...
Russia's failure to achieve a rapid victory over Ukraine has forced the West to consider what its own goals in the conflict should be. In doing so, it must walk a fine line between the disgrace of insufficient action and the risk of strategic hubris.
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) identified 45 Russian secret services officers and persons related to them enjoying diplomatic status. Their expulsion from the territory of Poland is requested by the Head of the ABW- announced Stanis�aw...
My generation will not be able to talk to Ukrainians without feeling a sense of guilt. We will be constantly aware of their hatred for us. Only the young have a chance to overcome this.
We know now, thanks to sterling work from Bartek Wieli�ski in Wyborcza that the Polish Government had detailed intel from America about Putin's plans to invade Ukraine. In November. How did they plan for the humanitarian crisis the war would...
Today, the EU should be more vigilant and declare its clear intention to include Bosnia-Herzegovina in a Political Union that includes assistance against possible provocations and aggression.
- What is needed is a NATO peacekeeping mission that will also be able to defend itself," Deputy Prime Minister for Security Jaroslaw Kaczy�ski proclaimed during a visit to Kyiv. Does the Polish government really want to go to war with Russia?
On Thursday, Poland's politically-controlled Constitutional Tribunal has once again found a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights unconstitutional. The decision comes in reaction to a number of ECtHR judgments unfavorable to the...
Cooperating with Russia is no more a legal threat due to sanctions nor a mere corporate responsibility issue. It has become a much more fundamental issue of morality- argue Ukrainian economists Andriy Boytsun, Dmytro Yablonovskyi, and Oleksandr...
Zelenskiy and his people are fighting for their lives to defend European values. They have earned the prospect of EU membership once this brutal war is over.
Surgeons and IT specialists from Pozna� have teamed up to develop an app meant to facilitate the process of relocating wounded Ukrainian war refugees to specialist hospitals all around Poland. The project is completely self-organized.
Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has been aware of an impending humanitarian crisis since November 2021. Yet, blinded by an increasingly desperate struggle to stay in power, it wasted precious time it could've used to prepare an action plan.
-Two Patriot Batteries will be repositioned to Poland to proactively counter any potential threat to US and Allied forces and NATO territory- Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
Over the past two weeks, the true essence of the Polish people came to the fore, a quiet, practical heroism that moved smoothly through the gears from February 24th and left me wondering how well I knew the country I now call home.
By blaming Russia's attack against Ukraine on the eastward expansion of NATO, some prominent figures of the Western Left are either mindlessly repeating Kremlin's propaganda or unwittingly revealing their true attitude towards East-Central Europe:...
The Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation has joined a coalition of international organizations and publishers supporting Ukraine's resistance through a fundraising campaign for independent Ukrainian media. So far, Wyborcza collected over EUR 150,000 in...
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