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Europe, stand up to Poland
The problem of Warsaw’s illiberalism is not just legal but deeply political.
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Why Poland doesn’t want refugees
An ethnically homogenous nation battles EU efforts to distribute asylum seekers.
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EU gives Poland 'final warning' to stop widespread logging in primeval forest, one of the last in Europe
The European Union asked Poland on Thursday to stop massive logging in one of Europe’s last primeval forests, warning it might take the country to the European Court of Justice if it doesn’t reverse course. The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, said it had given Poland “a final warning” to stop the large-scale felling of trees in the Bialowieza Forest. The commission said Warsaw has a month to react, rather than the customary two-month deadline, due to the threat of “serious irreparable damage.”
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The complex story of Polish refugees in Iran
Thousands of Poles sought shelter in Iran during World War II, but today Poland has slammed the door on refugees.
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EU warns Poland that it has 24 hours to start taking in refugees
The EU has issued a 24-hour warning to Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland saying that they have to start taking in refugees under an EU migrant-sharing plan. The European Commission said in a statement that it has repeatedly urged them to relocate refugees or at least pledge to do so under the legally-binding refugee plan agreed two years ago.
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Poland's Largest Food Delivery with 5000+ Restaurants Starts Accepting Bitcoin
Poland’s largest website for ordering food online, Pyszne.pl, now accepts bitcoin for all orders. The site boasts the largest selection of restaurants in the country with approximately 5,062 locations and 883,000 active customers.
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Poland did not invite refugees, has right to say 'no': Kaczynski
Poland has a moral right to say 'no' to refugees, the country's most powerful politician said on Saturday. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling party Law and Justice (PiS), gave his views on immigration at a party convention in Przysucha, 100 km (60 miles) south of Warsaw. "We have not exploited the countries from which these refugees are coming to Europe these days, we have not used their labor force and finally we have not invited them to Europe.
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Poland once sent the U.S. a birthday card. With 5 million signatures.
On Oct. 14, 1926, a distinguished citizen of Poland named Leopold Kotnowski came to the White House with a greeting card for the United States’ 150th birthday. It was a little late — the Sesquicentennial’s Fourth of July was months in the past — but it had taken a while to gather the signatures: 5.5 million of them. Plus, there was the elegant, gilded artwork, the photographs, the poems, the pressed flowers, the salutes from the cycling clubs, skating clubs, banks, schoolchildren, medical and rowing societies, lute singers, journalists and the army.
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Poland will borrow a Communist Party tactic of bussing in crowds to ensure Trump gets a warm welcome
Poland’s ruling party is keen to ensure a warm welcome for President Donald Trump in Warsaw.
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Polish Battle Over Court Revamp Turns Into Shouting Match
Polish ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski accused his political opponents of “murdering” his brother seven years ago, as a debate over his party’s contested judicial overhaul turned volatile.
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Mass protests continue across Poland as controversial court reform nears passage
Massive demonstrations in Polish streets continued this week as thousands of people gathered Thursday night in more than 70 cities around the country. Standing before courthouses, they held candles, sang anthems, and chanted demands that President Andrzej Duda veto a proposed reform to the Supreme Court.
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Protests in Poland as Right-Wing Ruling Party Dismantles Democracy
‘This is a blatant attack by Poland’s government on the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.’ By Jessica Corbett.
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Poland President Andrzej Duda vetoes judiciary reform
Poland's President Andrzej Duda has announced he will veto two contentious bills that are widely seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system and are part of a planned legal overhaul by the ruling party that has sparked days of nationwide protests.
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Poland's president signs controversial law despite protests
Poland’s president has signed into law one of three contested bills that organises the judiciary in a way that critics say limits their independence. The move came after senior members of the ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) reacted furiously to Andrzej Duda’s decision to veto two out of three controversial bills that critics argue would have given the government control over the country’s judicial system, portraying him as bowing to the will of hostile foreign powers.
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Open conflict triggers concern Poland might leave EU next
Since British voters endorsed leaving the European Union, politicians and pundits have ruminated on which of the bloc’s remaining 27 nations could be next. “Grexit” and “Frexit,” for Greece and France, were two subjects of speculation. Now, months of open conflict between Poland’s conservative nationalist government and the rest of the EU has some Poles wondering if their leaders are putting the country on a path that could take it out of the union.
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New evidence suggests Russia may have killed the Poland’s former president
In a striking announcement Wednesday, a Polish government committee suggested that traces of explosives have been found on the wreckage of a Polish plane that crashed in 2010. As the committee put it, “much damage to the left wing of the TU 154M plane carried traces of an explosion.”
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The Polish Doctors Who Used Science to Outwit the Nazis
The fake typhus epidemic staged by Eugene Lazowski and Stasiek Matulewicz during World War II saved thousands of lives.
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Poland hits back after Macron warns Warsaw of being 'marginalised' on labour reform
“I advise the president that he should be more conciliatory ... Perhaps his arrogant comments are a result of a lack of [political] experience,” Szydlo said in a statement emailed to Reuters. “I advise the president that he should focus on the affairs of his own country, perhaps he may be able to achieve the same economic results and the same level of security for (French) citizens as those guaranteed by Poland,” Szydlo added, in an apparent swipe at France’s persistent security concerns following a series of terror attacks.
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Germany must pay Poland up to $1 trillion in reparations, minister says
Germany should consider paying Poland as much as $1 trillion in World War II reparations, according to the Polish foreign minister. Poland’s foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski told local radio station RMF that “serious talks” were needed with Germany to "find a way to deal with the fact that German-Polish relations are overshadowed by the German aggression of 1939 and unresolved post-war issues." He said Poland’s material losses were about $1 trillion, or higher.
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Police raid offices of women's groups in Poland after protests
Women’s rights groups have denounced police raids on their offices in several Polish cities that resulted in the seizing of documents and computers, a day after women staged anti-government marches to protest at the country’s restrictive abortion law. The raids took place on Wednesday in the cities of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Łódź and Zielona Góra. They targeted two organisations, the Women’s Rights Centre and Baba, which help victims of domestic violence and participated in this week’s anti-government protests.
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