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Warsaw Remains Loyal to Budapest, Hopes Orbán's Policy Regarding Ukraine will "Undergo Certain Modifications"
The Polish ruling camp has no intention to end its political friendship with Viktor Orbán. Despite the fact that after winning the elections, the Hungarian prime minister immediately mocked the...
07-04-2022 10:53 -
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Putin's Invasion is Used by the Ruling Camp to Limit Media Freedom in Poland
Before the 2023 elections, nearly 2 million households with old TV sets and antennas will lose access to the news programs of private, independent TV broadcasters (TVN and Polsat), unless they...
07-04-2022 10:48 -
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"We Thought Poland Was a Country Where Human Rights are Respected": Feature Story from the Poland-Belarus Border
The situation on the Poland-Belarus border remains unchanged: refugees and activists who help them face increased persecution and are forced to play "hide and seek" with the authorities. Wyborcza's...
06-04-2022 16:21 -
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Calling for Tougher Sanctions on Russia, Polish PM Criticizes Germany and Defends Hungary
Responding to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, on Monday, Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki called on EU leaders to implement actions that will "finally break Putin's war machine". At the same...
05-04-2022 15:14 -
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Forgotten Refugees: Pain and Despair on the Poland-Belarus Border [INTERVIEW]
While the world is praising Poland for its warm welcome of Ukrainian refugees, asylum seekers trying to cross the country's border from Belarus are facing inhuman and degrading conditions. Activists...
01-04-2022 14:39 -
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Adam Bodnar: President Duda Decided to Further Escalate Poland's Rule of Law Crisis [OPINION]
We often hear that in times of war, political divisions should be put aside. As Polish government officials like to say, this isn't "the right time" to discuss petty domestic issues. Yet, it's...
30-03-2022 16:44 -
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"They Want to Report From the Front Lines and Counter Russian Propaganda" - Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation Supports Ukrainian Journalists
"Ukrainian journalists do not want to leave their country. They want to be on the front lines, just like their fellow countrymen. The least we can do is to support them. That is why we are sending...
28-03-2022 15:27 -
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Biden is Right. Putin Cannot Remain in Power [OPINION]
Macron and many American diplomats criticized Biden's words that Putin "cannot remain in power" as an unnecessary "verbal escalation". Yet, unlike diplomats, the leader of the free world can and...
28-03-2022 15:02 -
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Let's Make Sure that Poland's Spirit of 2022 Lives On [OPINION]
We can't let isolated incidents of racism overshadow the Spirit of 2022, the moment when Poland took its rightful place among those very few enlightened nations of the world, when the country fell in...
28-03-2022 10:54 -
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With All Eyes Turned to Ukraine, PiS Continues to Quietly Dismantle Polish Democracy [OPINION]
The first casualty of war is often truth. In Poland's case, democracy, which has already suffered a serious setback, might be yet another war victim. PiS will certainly use the opportunity to...
25-03-2022 15:17 -
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What is the West's Objective in Ukraine? [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
Russia's failure to achieve a rapid victory over Ukraine has forced the West to consider what its own goals in the conflict should be. In doing so, it must walk a fine line between the disgrace of...
24-03-2022 09:26 -
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Poland Expels 45 Russian Diplomats for Spying
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) identified 45 Russian secret services officers and persons related to them enjoying diplomatic status. Their expulsion from the territory of Poland is...
23-03-2022 15:27 -
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Does the West Need Autocrats to Fight Putin? [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
By embracing Poland's quasi-authoritarian regime in the interest of using the Polish border as an access point to Ukraine, Western powers have struck yet another Faustian bargain that they will come...
23-03-2022 12:01 -
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Nobel Laureate Dmitry Muratov: Kremlin Propaganda is Like Radiation. No One in Russia Can Escape it [INTERVIEW]
My generation will not be able to talk to Ukrainians without feeling a sense of guilt. We will be constantly aware of their hatred for us. Only the young have a chance to overcome this.
22-03-2022 17:15 -
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This PiS Government is a Fake Entity [OPINION]
We know now, thanks to sterling work from Bartek Wieliński in Wyborcza that the Polish Government had detailed intel from America about Putin's plans to invade Ukraine. In November. How did they plan...
21-03-2022 12:06 -
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Sarajevo 1992-2022. Learning from History
Today, the EU should be more vigilant and declare its clear intention to include Bosnia-Herzegovina in a Political Union that includes assistance against possible provocations and aggression.
17-03-2022 13:00 -
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Empty promises or a call for escalation? Kaczyński's reckless statement in Kyiv [OPINION]
- What is needed is a NATO peacekeeping mission that will also be able to defend itself," Deputy Prime Minister for Security Jaroslaw Kaczyński proclaimed during a visit to Kyiv. Does the Polish...
17-03-2022 12:52 -
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Poland's Top Court Rules European Convention on Human Rights Partly Incompatible with Polish Constitution
On Thursday, Poland's politically-controlled Constitutional Tribunal has once again found a provision of the European Convention on Human Rights unconstitutional. The decision comes in reaction to a...
14-03-2022 17:05 -
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No Business with the Aggressor [OPINION]
Cooperating with Russia is no more a legal threat due to sanctions nor a mere corporate responsibility issue. It has become a much more fundamental issue of morality- argue Ukrainian economists...
12-03-2022 10:06 -
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Ukraine has Earned its Place in the European Union [GARTON ASH]
Zelenskiy and his people are fighting for their lives to defend European values. They have earned the prospect of EU membership once this brutal war is over.
11-03-2022 11:40 -
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Polish Surgeons Develop an App to Provide Wounded Ukrainian Refugees with Emergency Healthcare
Surgeons and IT specialists from Poznań have teamed up to develop an app meant to facilitate the process of relocating wounded Ukrainian war refugees to specialist hospitals all around Poland. The...
10-03-2022 13:28 -
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Polish Government Knew About Putin's Invasion Plans Already in November. It Still Failed to Prepare a Plan [OPINION]
Poland's ruling Law and Justice party has been aware of an impending humanitarian crisis since November 2021. Yet, blinded by an increasingly desperate struggle to stay in power, it wasted precious...
09-03-2022 18:58 -
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US to Send Two Surface-to-Air Missile Batteries to Poland Amid Tensions with Russia
-Two Patriot Batteries will be repositioned to Poland to proactively counter any potential threat to US and Allied forces and NATO territory- Pentagon announced on Tuesday.
09-03-2022 11:56 -
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Google to Spend Record-Breaking PLN 2.7 Billion on a New Office Complex in Warsaw
The US tech giant announced its purchase of The Warsaw Hub- a high-rise complex located in Warsaw's Wola district. At PLN 2.7 Billion, it is the largest ever single office transaction in all...
07-03-2022 17:32 -
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There is Something About a Crisis That Brings Out the Best in People [OPINION]
Over the past two weeks, the true essence of the Polish people came to the fore, a quiet, practical heroism that moved smoothly through the gears from February 24th and left me wondering how well I...
07-03-2022 09:53 -
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Westplaining Ukraine: Jeffrey Sachs, Varoufakis, Naomi Klein, and "the Guardian" Repeat Kremlin's Narrative [OPINION]
By blaming Russia's attack against Ukraine on the eastward expansion of NATO, some prominent figures of the Western Left are either mindlessly repeating Kremlin's propaganda or unwittingly revealing...
06-03-2022 13:21 -
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Wyborcza's Foundation Raises Over 150,000 Euro for International Campaign in Support of Independent Ukrainian Media
The Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation has joined a coalition of international organizations and publishers supporting Ukraine's resistance through a fundraising campaign for independent Ukrainian media. So...
05-03-2022 17:43 -
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Putin's War Has Given Birth to Geopolitical Europe [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
After long debating how the European Union can be made more robust and security-conscious, Europeans have now made more progress toward that objective in the past week than they did in the previous...
04-03-2022 15:25 -
There is no freedom without solidarity
