The Wirtualna Polska portal has today published the results of the opinion polls of Poles, which show that the president of the capital, Rafał Trzaskowski and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, gained the same sympathy of voters last year. "There is a tie" - we read.more
Boris Johnson’s father Stanley has confirmed that he is applying for a French passport on the eve of Britain’s Brexit transition period coming to an end.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, on December 31 said the UK would be an “open, generous, outward looking, internationalist and free trading” country once it quits all EU rules at 2300 GMT.more
Angela Merkel said in her last New Year’s address to the nation as German chancellor that 2020 was by far the most difficult of her 15-year leadership, yet the start of vaccinations against COVID-19 made 2021 a year of hope.more
Britain's long-awaited Brexit deal has become law after receiving the Queen's official assent. Boris Johnson's EU trade agreement cleared Parliament late on Wednesday night after the Government rushed approval through the Commons and Lords in a single day.more
Boris Johnson has urged MPs to "open a new chapter in our national story" by backing his post-Brexit trade deal with the EU in a Commons vote later. Parliament has been recalled to put the deal into law, a day before the UK severs ties with the European Union. MPs back the government's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by 521 votes to 73 - that's a majority of 448.more
Soon, all Polish ministries may receive government instructions to remove the word "gender" from European documents, informs "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" today.more
The head of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, called on the British authorities for urgent talks on the development of a bilateral agreement on Gibraltar. She stipulated that its absence would lead to the emergence of a "hard border" with this territory on 1 January.more
The British Parliament - first the House of Commons and then the House of Lords - will debate today and then vote on the ratification of the UK's agreement with the European Union last week, which governs their trade relations from 1 January 2021.more
The compromise on the cooperation and trade agreement between the European Union and Great Britain is "balanced and reasonable", said the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier in an interview for Le Figaro, published yesterday.more
European Union ambassadors unanimously approved a trade and cooperation agreement between the Community and the United Kingdom today in Brussels. The agreement will be effective from 1st of January 2021.more
The EU and UK have reached a post-Brexit trade deal, ending months of disagreements over fishing rights and future business rules. At a Downing Street press conference, Boris Johnson said: "We have taken back control of our laws and our destiny." The text of the agreement has been already released.more
George Blake, the former MI6 officer and one of the Cold War's most infamous double agents, has died aged 98, Russian media has reported. Over nine years, the Soviet spy handed over information that led to the betrayal of at least 40 MI6 agents in Eastern Europe.more
The decision on the provisional application of the draft agreement concluded between the EU and Great Britain will be put to the vote in the EU Council in the coming days, an EU source said yesterday.more
The agreement of the agreement between the EU and Great Britain is good news for Polish entrepreneurs and citizens. It will limit the negative effects of Brexit - said Konrad Szymański, Minister for European Affairs today.more
Joe Biden, the President-elect of the US, sent a letter to Andrzej Duda, Poland’s head of state, in which he expressed hope for cooperation in face of global challenges, Krzysztof Szczerski, the Chief of Staff of the Polish President announced.more
Britain agreed a “reasonable” five-and-half-year transition period with the European Union over fisheries, longer than the three years it wanted but shorter than the 14 years the EU had originally asked for, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.more
Britain and the EU have finally reached an agreement on a Brexit trade deal after years of wrangling. The move comes just days before the transition period ends on December 31 and means avoiding the ‘nightmare’ no-deal scenario countless businesses and experts have warned against.more
The first Polish drivers, who have been waiting for several days, have the opportunity to cross the English Channel, are already in France - the Polish Embassy in London announced today in the early afternoon on social media.more
