Poland will not accept migrants relocated from other European Union countries or bear related costs under the bloc's new migration and asylum pact, the country's interior ministry said on Friday as the new rules took effect across the EU. Photo:Polish Border Guard/twitter.com/Straz_Graniczna The ministry said in a statement that Poland remained opposed to any mechanisms that could undermine national
Polish PM Donald Tusk said Tuesday he has pressed both Kyiv and President Karol Nawrocki to avoid escalation after a decision by Ukraine’s Zelensky to name a military unit after fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army sparked a diplomatic crisis. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.PAP/Paweł Supernak Tusk told a news conference he had urged Kyiv to take
Poland’s unemployment rate edged down to 5.9 percent in May, from 6 percent in April, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy said on Tuesday. The Warsaw headquarters of the Polish Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.Marcin Dławichowski/Polish Radio There were around 917,200 people without jobs across the nation at the end of May, down by 17,100 from a month earlier, according
Russia is waging a "full-scale cognitive war" against the West, not merely a disinformation campaign, Poland's Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warned on Monday. Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski speaks at the "War for Minds: Fear, Sabotage, Disinformation" conference in Warsaw on Monday.PAP/Radek Pietruszka Speaking at a parliamentary conference in Warsaw titled "The War for
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that a major march will take place in Warsaw on June 4 next year to mark the anniversary of the country's first partially free elections and the centenary of former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki's birth. Tadeusz MazowieckiPAP/Bartłomiej Zborowski Tusk said on Thursday that participants in the "Great Patriots' March" would walk past a planned monument
A Polish historian has warned that Ukraine’s view of the World War II-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) omits its role in massacres of Polish civilians. Polish civilian victims of a World War II massacre committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).Image: Władysława Siemaszków, Ludobójstwo, page 1294, from Henryk Słowiński collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Historian Mirosław Szumiło, a
Poland’s interior minister and his Irish counterpart on Wednesday praised efforts to secure the Polish-Belarusian border, describing it as critical to the security of the European Union. Marcin Kierwiński Wojciech Kusiński/Polskie Radio Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński and Irish Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Minister Jim O’Callaghan visited the border crossing at Kuźnica in northeastern Poland to review
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said his government will pursue technological sovereignty to reduce dependence on a narrow group of technology suppliers and ensure the country can choose among competing providers. Speaking at the European Financial Congress in the Baltic resort city of Sopot on Tuesday, Tusk said technological sovereignty should be treated as a
Poland's unemployment rate stood at 3 percent in April, marking the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported. Photo:PAP/DPA/Uli Deck Bulgaria recorded the lowest jobless rate in the bloc in April, at 2.8 percent, while the Czech Republic trailed Poland in third place, with 3.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency. Meanwhile, Finland had the highest seasonally-adjusted jobless rate in the EU, at 10.6 percent, and Spanish unemployment was the second-highest at 10.3 percent, according to
Poland has completed the first phase of defence procurement under the European Union's SAFE programme, signing around EUR 28.3 billion worth of deals with domestic manufacturers for armoured vehicles, artillery systems, ammunition, cybersecurity equipment and other military hardware, officials said. Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.PAP/Jarek Praszkiewicz The contracts are part of Poland's allocation under the
