Poland has extended temporary border controls with Lithuania and Germany until 4 October 2025 to help seal off the eastern route of illegal migration shifting through Lithuania and Latvia, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński confirmed. Marcin Kierwiński, Minister of the Interior and Administration of Poland Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell The extension was announced by Kierwiński during a Sunday briefing with
Poland’s men’s volleyball team clinched the 2025 Volleyball Nations League title with a commanding 3–0 victory over Italy in Sunday’s final in Ningbo, China. Poland defeats Italy to claim gold in men's Volleyball Nations League final, 3 August 2025Photo: Suo Xianglu/Xinhua News/East News The world No. 1s won the sets 25:22, 25:19, and 25:14, securing their second
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski reaffirmed Warsaw’s unwavering support for Ukraine following talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha on Friday, emphasising that backing Kyiv transcends political divisions. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski (left) meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha at Sikorski's private estate in Chobielin, north-central Poland, on 1 August
The Polish pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan, has welcomed over 500,000 visitors since it opened in April, according to organizers. The Polish pavilion at the World Expo 2025 exhibition in Japan.Photo: Danuta Isler/Polish Radio The milestone highlights Poland’s strong cultural and economic presence at the international event, with a programme that blends heritage with innovation
Polish security services and police accessed citizens’ phone records more than 2 million times in 2024 without court approval, Gazeta Wyborcza reports - in apparent breach of EU privacy laws and human rights rulings. Polish authorities' unchecked access to phone data over two million times in 2024 highlights a stark clash between national surveillance practicies and EU human rights
Residents of Bogatynia, a town in southwestern Poland near the borders with the Czech Republic and Germany, successfully prevented far-right activist Robert Bąkiewicz from holding a planned rally, denouncing what they described as an attempt to intimidate the local community with paramilitary-style tactics. Residents of Bogatynia, a town near Poland’s Czech and German borders, blocked far-right
Poland could lose more than USD 2 billion due to new US tariffs on European Union goods, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański His estimate came after US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen reached a trade deal on Sunday that includes 15-percent tariffs on most goods imported from the
Nationwide outrage has gripped Poland after a 60-year-old parish priest admitted to brutally killing a 68-year-old man with an axe and setting him on fire while he was still alive. The escort of a 60-year-old parish priest from east-central Poland to the prosecutor’s office. The clergymen had confessed to the murder of 68-year-old acquaintance with exeptional
US President Donald Trump is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with Russia’s failure to make meaningful progress toward ending its war against Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. US Secretary of State Marco RubioPhoto: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press/East News In an interview with Fox News on Saturday, Rubio stated that while President Trump remains committed to
Forty-eight artists from Ukraine and Belarus have won scholarships from the Polish culture ministry in the latest round of its annual Gaude Polonia initiative. Photo: Danuta Matloch/MKiDNPolish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage The programme, now in its 24th year, is open to creatives working in fields such as film, photography, heritage conservation, literature and translation, music, visual arts, theatre and art, and theatre and film criticism. Photo:
