Source link Protesting farmers have reportedly offloaded Ukrainian produce from freight cars onto the ground Kiev has demanded compensation from the Polish farmers who dumped onto the ground about 180 tons of Ukrainian grain from freight cars transiting the country during a recent blockade, RBK Ukraine reported on Wednesday, citing first Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras […]
Source link Thousands are working to undermine Western support for Kiev, top officials have claimed The ongoing protests by Polish farmers against Ukrainian imports have an “obvious Russian trace” behind them, Kiev’s foreign minister, Dmitry Kuleba, has claimed. Polish activists have been demonstrating at the border with Ukraine for months, blocking shipments of grain and […]
Source link Poland is dropping its demand for more than a trillion dollars in compensation from Germany for World War II losses caused during the Nazi occupation, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. The issue of reparations is closed, he announced on Thursday. “My predecessor Minister Anna Fotyga answered a parliamentary question many years […]
Source link The new government in Warsaw has stepped up efforts to receive compensation from Germany Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has questioned why the previous government in Warsaw did not formally demand World War II reparations from Russia. Polish compensation claims should have been settled by the USSR, but the money was never transferred, […]
Source link Having nuclear weapons is a powerful deterrent and something Poland should look into going forward, a retired Polish Army general said in an interview on Monday. Speaking with the RMF24 radio, Jaroslaw Kraszewski was asked about last week’s proposal to “give Poland nuclear weapons,” made by American Enterprise Institute scholar Dalibor Rohac in […]
Source link Demonstrations have been staged across the country, demanding an end to the flow of cheap Ukrainian produce Traffic in cities and town across Poland was severely obstructed on Friday as farmers staged protests over what they consider to be unfair competition from cheap Ukrainian produce, as well as the EU’s green policies. Over […]
Source link American lawmakers have spent months wrangling over additional military aid for Kiev Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized US Republicans as senators attempted to block a new $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel, even invoking the memory of former President Ronald Reagan. Speaking after the massive aid bill was temporarily held […]
Source link Local officials believe only the sick, dependent, and disabled can count on long-term aid, Rzeczpospolita reports Poland is planning to develop new rules for helping Ukrainian refugees, Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday. It said, citing local officials, that many are taking advantage of benefits to which they are not entitled. According to the article, […]
Source link The joint declaration calls for continued arms deliveries until Kiev retakes its lost territory Poland has signed a pledge by G7 and EU leaders to supply Ukraine with weapons until it achieves its military objectives against Russia. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also pledged to manufacture weapons in Ukraine and to make Warsaw […]
Source link A long-shot lawsuit over the 2010 presidential plane crash was purely political, Warsaw has said Warsaw does not intend to pay a million zloty to a British barrister for a futile case against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has announced. On Thursday, the Polish […]
Source link Piotr Wawrzyk is allegedly a key figure in a corruption scheme that reportedly facilitated tens of thousands of illegal entries The Polish Anticorruption Bureau has arrested ex-Deputy Foreign Minister Piotr Wawrzyk, who is suspected of abusing his office to facilitate the issuance of visas and residency permits to foreign nationals. The arrest was […]
Source link European Commission transparency chief Vera Jourova insisted the bloc was watching Warsaw “very closely” The European Commission is “very closely” watching the political crisis unfolding in Poland and is ready to intervene if Warsaw violates EU law, the bloc’s vice president of values and transparency, Vera Jourova, told Euronews on Wednesday. “We’re watching, […]
Source link Berlin’s forces haven’t been deployed on Polish soil since Hitler invaded in 1939 Poland is prepared to host German troops on its territory for the first time since World War II, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejn told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Sunday. Szejn’s statement marks a dramatic break from his predecessors, who swore […]
Source link Warsaw fed “disinformation” to investigators and tried to blame the blasts on Russia, European officials have said Polish officials withheld evidence and attempted to stall an international probe into the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, making investigators “suspicious of Warsaw’s role and motives,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The […]
Source link Soldiers worked to locate traces of the projectile, even though military authorities said it left Polish airspace The Polish military has called off a search for traces of a missile that allegedly entered the country’s airspace on Friday after “nothing was found.” Warsaw said that the missile was fired by Russian forces, but […]