Poland calls off Czech invasion
WARSAW — The Polish army is pulling out of a position it occupied in the Czech Republic, the military high command said Thursday. Polish forces set up a border control post along the twisty...
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Poland’s Duda turns to LGBTQ attacks as election campaign falters
WARSAW — Poland’s economy is in free fall, unemployment is rising and the country has one of the EU’s highest rates of new coronavirus infections … which is why the presidential election campaign is...
View ArticlePoland’s Duda lands White House invitation
WARSAW — Polish President Andrzej Duda has been invited to visit U.S. President Donald Trump on June 24, just four days before the Polish presidential election, the White House announced Wednesday. The...
View ArticleWhy carbon-free Europe will still need North African energy
This article is part of the special report The World in 2050. Goodbye African oil and gas. Hello African wind and sunshine. Europe currently gets a lot of its energy from across the Mediterranean. That...
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Poland’s Duda goes to war against foreign media
WARSAW — Poland’s down-to-the-wire presidential election is turning into a media bloodbath, with accusations of foreign interference and press bias as the campaign enters the final stretch before...
View ArticlePoland’s presidential campaign ends on an anti-Semitic note
WARSAW — The take-no-quarter Polish presidential election campaign ended this week with backers of incumbent Andrzej Duda insinuating that his rival would sell out the country to Jewish interests. It’s...
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Rural-urban split defines Polish presidential race
CHRZANÓW, Poland — This village in eastern Poland is marked by two kinds of shrines — the roadside crosses dedicated to Jesus Christ and the electoral banners of President Andrzej Duda. The hamlet of...
View ArticlePolish police crack down on LGBTQ protesters
WARSAW — Polish police arrested three people linked to protests in which rainbow flags were hung on statues in Warsaw, authorities said Wednesday. Officers are investigating “the matter tied to...
View ArticleWhat happened in Belarus?
Belarus isn’t often in the news — except for elections. That’s when President Alexander Lukashenko and his supine parliament score unbelievable margins of victory. This usually sparks protests at home...
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Polish power struggle pulls Kaczyński into government
WARSAW — Jarosław Kaczyński is coming out of the shadows. After five years of ruling Poland from the headquarters of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, Kaczyński is poised to enter the government...
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The Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict explained
Violence flared up in a longrunning conflict on Europe’s eastern edge last month as Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed over the embattled region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The ongoing fighting has left more than...
View ArticlePolish Cabinet reshuffle puts Jarosław Kaczyński in government
WARSAW — Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party and the country’s most powerful politician, will join the Cabinet following a government reshuffle, Prime Minister...
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Central Europe buckles under coronavirus strain
WARSAW — Central Europe was barely touched in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s doing much worse now — something that threatens to overwhelm the medical systems of many of the EU’s...
View ArticleEU leaders kick 2030 emissions decision to December
EU leaders pushed a decision on how deeply to cut emissions by 2030 to their next summit in December, according to Council conclusions released Thursday. They “discussed” the European Commission’s...
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Protests shake Poland as government looks for a retreat on abortion ruling
WARSAW — Enormous crowds took to the streets of Polish cities Friday night, with thousands heading to the house of Jarosław Kaczyński, the country’s de facto ruler, to protest last week’s court ruling...
View ArticlePoland’s government backed into a corner over abortion
WARSAW — The explosion of popular fury that greeted a court ruling tightening abortion rules has stunned Poland’s nationalist government and left it with few palatable options to exit the crisis. For...
View ArticleBreaking up is hard to do for Poland and coal
WARSAW — Poland’s romance with coal is old and deep, but a divorce is looming. Coal still generates about three-quarters of Poland’s electricity and the industry employs about 100,000 heavily...
View ArticlePolexit: 3 reasons why Poland will quit the EU and 3 why it won’t
The recent Polish threat to veto the EU’s budget has ignited a discussion about the country’s future in the bloc. Earlier this month, the Polish government joined Hungary in blocking the EU’s €1.8...
View ArticlePoland’s state-run refiner becomes a media baron
Poland’s nationalist government moved to take control of most of the country’s regional newspapers on Monday when state-controlled refiner PKN-Orlen announced it was buying the Polska Press publisher...
View ArticleQuiz: What the Green Deal means for you …
You might not be able to bend the curve on climate change on your own, but it’s still good to know just where you stand with the world at large. POLITICO put together a quiz to determine how much...
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