American TV presenter and producer Oprah Winfrey posted a short video on Instagram in which she shared her emotions about the wave of refugees from Ukraine and expressed admiration for Poles welcoming them into their homes.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has assured that Britain stands in solidarity with Poland and is ready to increase military support for it if needed, his office reported yesterday after a meeting with Polish head of government Mateusz Morawiecki.more
Placing Polish MiGs at the disposal of the U.S. and their takeoff from the U.S.-NATO base in Ramstein raises serious concerns for the entire Atlantic Alliance, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said yesterday, referring to the Polish offer to hand over the fighters. He sees no substantive justification for such a proposal, he added.more
The UK will support Poland if it decides to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, British Defence Minister Ben Wallace announced today. However, he warned that this could have direct consequences for Poland.more
This is not a good time to change the map of US force deployments in Europe, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced yesterday in response to a question about the possible permanent presence of US troops on NATO's eastern flank. He added that the department would consider this at the "appropriate time".more
Vice President Kamala Harris discussed the deployment of troops to NATO's eastern flank in a conversation with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the White House reported. Harris held talks yesterday with leaders of five countries on NATO's eastern flank.more
The US State Department has approved the sale of Abrams M1A2 SEPv3 tanks and associated equipment to the Polish government. The sale will enhance the security of a NATO allied country working to promote political stability and economic progress in Europe, the Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) reported.more
The U.S. will send an additional 3,000 troops to Poland in the coming days, the defense ministry in Washington said on Friday, cited by global agencies. According to Reuters, the forces will come from the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, rather than U.S. forces deployed in Europe.more
Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed that Britain's commitment to Poland is unwavering and supported by the deployment of an additional 350 British troops, the British head of government's office reported after his conversation with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.more
Today's visits by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Brussels and Warsaw are, along with talks by Foreign Office chief Liz Truss, part of Britain's diplomatic offensive on Ukraine, British media wrote today.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will arrive in Poland tomorrow and meet with President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. The politicians will discuss the security situation around Ukraine, Reuters reported yesterday, citing a source at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.more
The United Kingdom will send an additional 350 troops to Poland as part of bilateral cooperation, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced in London today after a meeting with Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.more
Starting today, the validity of UE Covid Certificates (UCC) will be reduced to 270 days, both those issued after vaccination in the basic schedule and after booster and additional doses. The new guidelines have been prepared based on the position of the Medical Council.more
Yesterday was the last day of the 42nd edition of the international tourism fair FITUR 2022 in Madrid, in which Poland participates. This year, the Polish national stand received the highest award for the first time - the 1st place for the best exposition in the "Countries and Regions" category - Agata Witosławska, director of the Polish Tourism Organization (PTO) in Madrid, informed.more
The European Commission today announced that it is launching an infringement procedure against Poland in view of the ruling of the Polish Constitutional Court.more
We wanted to show Poles and the French that Solidarity is alive, that we resist the communist regime. We managed to reach the French elite during martial law and tell our story, and not that of the communist authorities, of the repression of Poles by communists," said opposition activist Andrzej Dembiński, a Pole who illegally hung the Solidarity flag on the Eiffel Tower in Paris in February 1982.more
After the end of the Second World War, an honest assessment of Poland's wartime history and its contribution to the Allied victory was effectively silenced, notes British historian Roger Moorhouse on the Dutch website Eioco.more
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrived in London today for a meeting with UK Chief Executive Boris Johnson; the main topic will be the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border of the European Union, as well as energy price issues.more
The migrant crisis triggered by the Belarusian authorities and the security situation in Central and Eastern Europe are the main topics of talks being held in London today by Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz.more
"The Books of James" in English are getting rave reviews, meanwhile Fitzcarraldo Editions together with Volume have released a special limited edition, for collectors and non-collectors alike, the Olga Tokarczuk Foundation tweeted today. Perfect for Christmas for English-speaking friends, it added.more
Most of those arrested who help migrants to cross from Belarus via Poland to other EU countries live in Germany. This is according to an internal, confidential European Commission document accessed by the daily "Welt".more
102-year-old John Franklin (Mieczyslaw Frąckiewicz), one of the last members of the Polish Air Force living in the UK, will be awarded the Pro Patria medal at the Polish Embassy in London today to mark National Independence Day.more
At yesterday's meeting of the UN Security Council, its European members (except Russia) and the US condemned Belarus. They stigmatised it in connection with the crisis on the Polish border for its instrumental treatment of human beings leading to the 'destabilisation of the EU's external border'.more
The civic project "Stop abortion", which equates abortion with murder, will pass the first reading and then should be sent for further work in the Sejm - this is the scenario that emerges from the words of MPs from the governing coalition, writes today's "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more
Police, Border Guard and army officers are at the border in Kuźnica; Polish services are prepared for any circumstances," deputy head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration Maciej Wąsik assured after a video circulated on the internet showing a large group of migrants heading towards the Polish border.more