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Government accused of backing ‘inhumane’ policies as 16 people are badly hurt by barrier blocking entry via Poland from Belarus Refugees and asylum seekers have been seriously injured by a “dangerous” razor-wire fence that the UK helped to build to keep asylum seekers out of Europe. At least 16 people have been gravely hurt, some […]
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Justyna Wydrzyńska, who was convicted for providing abortion pills, refuses to give up campaign for legal terminations In February 2020, a desperate woman made a phone call to the activist group Abortion Without Borders. Ania (not her real name) was 12 weeks’ pregnant with twins and trapped in a relationship with a violent partner. She […]
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Chancellor’s plans to tighten border controls as refugee numbers increase criticised by humanitarian groups The number of illegal border crossings into Germany has increased markedly since the start of the year, according to authorities, as the government of Olaf Scholz comes under growing pressure to tighten controls. Just under 20,000 people entered the country illegally […]
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Legacy of Karol Wojtyła under scrutiny as Poland comes to terms with scale of sexual abuse in Catholic church With under six months to go before a parliamentary election that is expected to be closely fought, a surprise figure has entered the Polish political field, despite the fact he died in 2005: Pope John Paul […]
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Poland has a deep and historic relationship with coal, importing huge amounts despite producing yet more locally. With the energy crisis biting, fuelled by the war in Ukraine, the country’s government withdrew restrictions on burning materials and subsidised coal, creating huge air quality issues, particularly in the industrial south – reversing 10 years of hard […]
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Russian city will now be known as Królewiec in official documents, its name in the 15th and 16th centuries The Kremlin has described Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents as a “hostile act”, as ties continue to fray over the Ukraine war. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave […]
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Non-binding vote bans surveillance software after concluding Hungary and Poland used it to track journalists and opponents The EU needs tighter regulation of the spyware industry, a European parliament special committee has said, after concluding that Hungary and Poland had used surveillance software to illegally monitor journalists, politicians and activists. A special European parliament committee […]
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A snooping judge, a dog smacked by a car, a model in crisis … the creators of the final film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s classic trilogy, inspired by the ideals of the French revolution, look back After the fall of the Berlin Wall, with liberty seemingly on the horizon, I had gone to the Polish director […]
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Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has said Russian assets and those of Russian oligarchs present a ‘huge pot of gold’ that should be used for Ukraine’s reconstruction. ‘We must make sure that the offender pays for reconstruction. Russia should pay Ukraine war damages, war reparations,’ Morawiecki said on Tuesday at a conference in Berlin working […]
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With one demanding stronger sanctions and the other blaming the EU for soaring energy prices, relations remain tense In December 2021, Poland’s ultraconservative, nationalist government hosted some of the biggest names in European far-right politics, including France’s Marine Le Pen and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. At the close of the Warsaw gathering, the group issued a […]
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