Poland

Poland

Warsaw and Kyiv agree deal to allow grain to transit Poland

Ukraine's grain exports to transit Poland in sealed containers after a deal was struck to prevent cheap cereals undermining Polish farm-gate prices.

19/04/2023

Poland

Euroviews. Eight decades since the Warsaw Uprising, let's celebrate the heroines

Regardless of gender, faith, or creed, freedom can only come with equality. When we fight together, we are stronger than even the most nefarious of history’s evils, Revital Yakin Krakovsky writes.

18/04/2023

Culture news

Warsaw museum displays rare artefacts from World War II Jewish ghetto

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

18/04/2023

No Comment

Bachelors bang their drums: an unusual Easter tradition in Poland

The town of Iwaniska celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ with drums. A few minutes before midnight, during the vigil at the tomb of Jesus, the drum is brought into the local church and at midnight the drumming begins.

09/04/2023

Poland

Poland pledges more MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine

Poland pledges additional MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first official visit to its key ally.

05/04/2023

Culture news

'Drive Your Plow': A must-see stage adaptation of Tokarczuk's novel

We went to see the stage adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's eco-thriller 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'.

28/03/2023

Culture news

Polish activist found guilty of aiding abortion says support growing

Justyna Wydrzyńska, an abortion activist and doula, was found guilty by a Polish court of providing a woman in need with help during the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking concern among human and women's rights organisations.

27/03/2023

Destinations

This Polish city has just been ranked the cheapest place to be vegan

Krakow is one of the oldest cities in Poland and is full of architectural gems.

24/03/2023

Poland

Poland detains suspected Russian spies 'preparing acts of sabotage'

Poland's security services detained members of a Russian espionage ring alleging they were preparing acts of sabotage, Polish authorities said.

17/03/2023

Poland

Poland and Slovakia are first NATO countries sending MiG-29s to Kyiv

Warsaw announced that four of the Soviet-era warplanes would be sent initially, while Bratislava will provide 13 jets.

17/03/2023

Poland

Poland divided after documentary alleges John Paul II hid paedophilia

Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has characterised the new documentary as an attack on Polish identity.

10/03/2023

Poland

'We'll defend every inch of NATO', Biden tells eastern Europe leaders

The US president held talks with the Bucharest Nine group of NATO's most easterly members in the Polish capital on Wednesday.

22/02/2023

Poland

Blockade at Polish-Belarusian border as tensions flare

Already-strained relations between Minsk and Warsaw are at a fever pitch after Poland closed its Bobrowniki border crossing with Belarus, one of the two main motorways between the two countries.

21/02/2023

Poland

'Kyiv stands strong' says Biden in address outside Warsaw Castle

US President Joe Biden addressed thousands of people in Poland's capital on Tuesday a day after his highly symbolic trip to Kyiv

21/02/2023

Poland

Ukrainians who have fled to Poland learn how to settle

Over the last year, over 9.5 million Ukrainians came to Poland. Nearly 8 million of them have returned. They were mainly women and children.

20/02/2023

Work

Poland's reverse brain drain: Meet the tech workers tempted back home

Poland is set to outstrip the UK economically by the end of the decade. It's prompting a wave of the Polish diaspora to return home to work in tech.

03/02/2023

Nature

How do you bring a river back from the dead?

Poland's River Oder suffered an ecological catastrophe last year. Germany’s Emscher might hold some clues for its recovery.

26/01/2023

Poland

TV channel did not air a map of Poland which includes Ukrainian land

The TV channel released a statement claiming they never aired a weather segment showing western regions of Ukraine as part of Poland's territory

23/01/2023

Poland

Poland passes new law to appease EU and release funding

Brussels has suspended billions of euros in aid for Poland, criticising the government's control over the judiciary.

13/01/2023

Europe News

Polish PM says adopting the euro would bring spike in prices

Polish PM says adopting the euro would bring spike in prices

10/01/2023

Poland

Germany snubs Poland's claim for WWII reparations

Berlin refused to enter into talks with Warsaw on compensating for damage caused during World War II, according to Poland's Foreign Ministry.

03/01/2023

Europe News

Poland signs deal with France to receive two observation satellites

Poland will get two reconnaissance satellites and a receiving station from France in 2027 but will have access to satellite imagery straight away.

28/12/2022

Poland

Free dinners and healthcare for Poland's homeless and needy

Volunteers in the Polish city of Krakow have served some 50,000 free Christmas dinners.

25/12/2022

World

Europe ‘still far’ from a deal on the gas price cap, says Polish PM

"I see that some countries which have to deal with this crisis from the point of view of the prices of gas, prices of oil, do this in a very, very selfish way”, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told Euronews.

15/12/2022

Poland

Poland's police chief hospitalised after a gift from Ukraine exploded

Warsaw police commander Jarosław Szymczyk received the gift during a recent visit to Ukraine.

15/12/2022

Poland

Poland's only cosmonaut, Mirosław Hermaszewski, dies aged 81

Gen Mirosław Hermaszewski, who circled the Earth in a Soviet spacecraft in 1978, died on Monday at the age of 81.

13/12/2022