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The Ruling Camp's Attempt to Silence "Wyborcza" Reaches New Heights With a Demand to Censor Public Hearings
Threatening to take "Wyborcza" to court, Piotr Woyciechowski, a close associate of the former Minister of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz, demands the removal of an article in which Gazeta...
21-05-2022 13:45 -
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Poland's Radical Anti-Abortion Advocates Have a New Target: Ukrainian Rape Survivors
The Catholic Fundamentalist organization Ordo Iuris is sending inquiries to Polish hospitals in an effort to establish whether abortion rates in Poland have increased since the war in Ukraine. The...
17-05-2022 14:33 -
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Finland's Bid to Join NATO is Good News for Poland [OPINION]
Sweden and Finland officially announced their bid to join the list of countries committed to coming to Poland's aid in case it is ever attacked. Admitting two new, strong members to NATO will give...
16-05-2022 17:12 -
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LGBT Rights: Poland Remains European Union's Most Homophobic Country
For the third consecutive year, Poland has been ranked European Union's least LGBTQ-friendly country. In the context of the entire European continent, only Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Turkey, and...
13-05-2022 09:01 -
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Wyborcza's Editor-in-Chief Wins Prestigious Gilel Storch Award
On Monday, "Wyborcza's" editor-in-chief Adam Michnik received the Gilel Storch Award, joining a list of distinguished previous laureates such as the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
12-05-2022 18:35 -
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How Poland is Turning into Europe's Garbage Dump [FEATURE ARTICLE]
Illegal waste imports are booming. Tens of thousands of tons of trash from Germany and other Western European countries are pilling up all across Poland. An investigation into one of such illegal...
11-05-2022 11:56 -
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Russian Ambassador Doused in Red Paint While Trying to Lay Flowers at a Monument Commemorating Soviet Soldiers
Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreyev did not lay flowers at the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Warsaw, as he had planned, after protesters blocked the access to the monument. It did not end there - one...
10-05-2022 14:24 -
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What is Polishness? [Peadar de Burca]
There are a lot of things I find admirable about Poland and Polishness. Sure, yes, some aspects can be unappealing, especially if you are open-minded and inclusive, and yet it is hard not be charmed...
09-05-2022 12:15 -
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Polish Proficiency Certificate: Thousands of Foreigners Struggle to Register for Mandatory State Exam
Foreigners who wish to work in Poland or become Polish citizens are formally required to prove their language proficiency. It turns out, however, that the language itself is not the main problem....
06-05-2022 16:24 -
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War in Ukraine is No Excuse to Forget About Poland's Rule of Law Breakdown, say MEPs
Discussing the state of Article 7 proceedings against Poland and Hungary, on Tuesday, MEPs argued that Poland's tremendous show of solidarity with the people of Ukraine should not be an excuse for...
05-05-2022 15:15 -
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Andrzej Poczobut Transferred to a Prison in Minsk
More than 400 days have passed since "Wyborcza's" foreign correspondent Andrzej Poczobut had been arrested by the Belarusian regime. According to Mr. Poczobut's family, he has now been transferred to...
04-05-2022 14:33 -
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The End of the Free Press is the Beginning of Wars [OPINION]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown us how far the dissolution of democratic institutions and the suffocation of the free press can go. Autocrats without public control exercised through...
03-05-2022 09:40 -
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Polish Authorities Seek Charges Against Prosecutor Over a Satire Poster Depicting Kaczyński
A special division of Poland's politicized National Prosecutor's Office is seeking charges against a prosecutor from Poznań for allegedly insulting the leader of the Law and Justice party Jarosław...
29-04-2022 11:56 -
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Poland Braces for Mass Flight Cancellations Amid Row Between Government and Air Traffic Controllers
Due to the still unresolved conflict between the Polish government and air traffic controllers, starting May 1, Poland could see a drastic reduction in flights to and from Warsaw. Thousands of...
27-04-2022 20:08 -
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Russia's Energy Giant Gazprom Shuts Off Gas Supplies to Poland
Gazprom announced it will halt gas deliveries to Poland along the Yamal pipeline as soon as Wednesday morning. Russia is suspending the contract with Poland's state-controlled energy company PGNiG...
27-04-2022 10:34 -
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Morawiecki's "StopRussiaNow!" Campaign is Just Another PR Gimmick [OPINION]
The Polish government is wasting money on a half-witted propaganda campaign, instead of using it to support humanitarian aid organizations helping Ukrainians fleeing their war-torn country.
25-04-2022 09:35 -
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Warsaw is Eager to Get the EU Recovery Cash. It Should Recognize the Authority of the EU Chief Prosecutor First
Polish prosecutors are unable to effectively prosecute crimes against the EU's financial interests when people associated with the Law and Justice party are involved. Therefore, a condition of...
22-04-2022 11:23 -
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Too Little, Too Late: Why the West is not Doing Enough to Help Ukraine [OPINION]
While it would be unfair to say that the West has completely failed to respond to the challenges of the moment and left Kyiv with no aid whatsoever, the Western response has so far been rather...
22-04-2022 10:37 -
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President Duda Signs Ban on Removing Pope Monuments and Changing Street Names
While many Poles were preoccupied with holiday celebrations, last Friday, President Duda has quietly signed a bill that prohibits the renaming of streets commemorating controversial historical...
20-04-2022 13:31 -
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Liberation Without Victory [ZELENSKY INTERVIEW]
Volodymyr Zelensky: "When some leaders ask me what weapons I need, I need a moment to calm myself, because I already told them the week before".
19-04-2022 15:42 -
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Made in the Ghetto. Warsaw Shows to the World the Testimonies From the Underground Archive of the Ghetto
On the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, we recall the testimonies of the residents of the Ghetto. There were some people in there who documented every day of their...
19-04-2022 09:02 -
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Bread for Bucha: A Polish Baker Went to Ukraine to Bake Bread for Local Civilians and Soldiers
Jacek Polewski, a baker and owner of the "Czarny chleb" bakery in Poznań, decided to travel to Bucha to bake bread for local civilians and soldiers. He also wants to help rebuild a local bakery that...
15-04-2022 15:30 -
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PiS is Deliberately Turning the Smoleńsk Tragedy into a Farce [OPINION]
Not a single member of Poland's ruling camp is taking Antoni Macierewicz's and Jarosław Kaczyński's conspiracy theories about the Smoleńsk air disaster seriously. These absurd allegations are simply...
14-04-2022 13:06 -
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"Welcome to Guantánamo!": Amnesty International Releases a Chilling Report on the Situation at Poland's Border with Belarus
On Monday, Amnesty International released a new chilling report about the "illegal pushbacks, arbitrary detention, and inhumane detention conditions" of refugees and migrants at the Poland-Belarus...
13-04-2022 12:25 -
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Poland Sides with Tech Giants by Blocking EU Deal on Global Corporate Tax
Shortly after a meeting between PM Morawiecki and the CEO of Google, Poland announced that it will block the EU's plan to make the world's biggest digital platform companies pay their fair share of...
12-04-2022 17:43 -
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Poland's Radical Nationalists to Receive Thousands in Grants from the Ukrainian Refugee Relief Fund
Known for its openly xenophobic and anti-migrant attitude, a Polish organization associated with the former leader of the National Radical Camp Robert Bąkiewicz will receive over PLN 250.000 from a...
11-04-2022 14:36 -
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If We Don't Support Ukraine, Putin's Aggression Will Continue in Other Countries [OPINION]
Morally and logically, we have to do everything within our power to stop Ukrainians innocents being slaughtered is the cause we should all be advocating otherwise we are rewarding Russian aggression...
11-04-2022 11:50 -
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Ukrainian Women Who Fled War Report Ever More Cases of Rape by Russian Troops, Polish Women's Rights Activist Says
Each day of the war in Ukraine brings to light new evidence confirming that Russian troops are regularly committing acts of sexual violence against Ukrainian women. Ever more accounts of rape...
08-04-2022 15:13 -
There is no freedom without solidarity
