Poland
EU Condemns Minsk Crackdown, Voices Concern Over Ukraine's Tymoshenko
October 02, 2011By Rikard Jozwiak/ WARSAW -- European Union leaders have condemned Belarus over its crackdown on the political opposition and expressed their concerns to Ukraine over the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The statements came at the end...
Historical politics in the Republic of Moldova – an unfulfilled obsession
August 22, 2011Historical politics that one talked about in case of Poland and Ukraine was a constant for the foreign policy of Moldova. Unlike two other countries previously mentioned, Moldova has failed to raise this kind of politics to the rank of state policy; it...
Jaroslaw Suplacz: Poland on its way to Greece
August 09, 2011A stimulated GDP The Polish GDP is strongly influenced by a stream of financial transfers from the European Union, in 2010 the net income from the EU budget was about 8 billion euro. Were it not for the transfers from the Union, the change of the Polish...
Obama in Poland: The start of a new practical relationship?
June 02, 2011Barack Obama’s visit to Poland on May 27-28 was markedly different from earlier U.S. presidential visits to the country. There was no major policy speech, no overarching agenda item to drive the headlines, and only small groups of onlookers in...
German nuclear extension halted
March 14, 2011Germany has responded to the Japanese nuclear crisis by suspending for three months a plan to extend the lives of its ageing nuclear power stations. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government announced last year that the country's 17 power stations...
Kaczynski air crash: Russia blames Polish pilot error
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January 13, 2011Russia has blamed the Smolensk air crash which killed the Polish president and nearly 100 other people in April on Polish pilot error. The Polish crew failed to heed bad weather warnings because they were afraid of displeasing President Lech Kaczynski...
Polish air crash report released by Russia
January 12, 2011Russia has handed Poland its report into the Smolensk air disaster last year which killed the Polish president and nearly 100 other people. Without giving details, investigators in Moscow said the final version of the report into the 10 April crash...
Poland waives visa fees for Belarus nationals
December 30, 2010Poland will waive fees charged to Belarusian citizens for processing travel visas beginning next week. The Polish Foreign Ministry described the move Wednesday as "an expression of solidarity with the people of Belarus" and pro-democracy...
Medvedev's visit signals warming relations with Poland
December 09, 2010Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was in Poland this week for a two-day visit. The event has been heralded as a sign of improving relations on both sides. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev arrived in Warsaw, Poland earlier this week in an atmosphere...
Russia: Stalin ordered Katyn massacre
November 26, 2010Russia's lower house of parliament on Friday, for the first time, officially blamed Soviet dictator Josef Stalin for the 1940 massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other citizens at Katyn. Warsaw welcomed the statement as "a good step...