WARSAW, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Poland signed a $4 billion loan under the United States’ Foreign Military Financing program that will help finance the transformation of its armed forces, the Polish defence minister said on Thursday. “This is another proof of enormous trust and strong alliance between Poland and the United States of America,” Wladyslaw…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to restore the rule of law and reset relations between Warsaw and Brussels. Poland has officially exited Article 7, the European Union’s exceptional mechanism to rein in countries that openly defy the bloc’s fundamental values. “We consider there is no longer a clear risk of a serious breach…
The European Union is facing fresh chaos as farmers from member countries come together to block off major highways in a huge protest. Angry French farmers have brought the nation to a standstill by blocking major roads with enormous convoys of tractors as they protest against what they see as excessive EU regulations and low…
Greetings from Tyler, They tell us protest is what the United States is built upon. We’ve seen “protests” go wrong, ending up in mass looting events, with no effort to put a stop to it. Protesters have free reign, because they’ve got arguments! Police have to suppress any feelings and put up with their antics. …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish police on Tuesday arrested two politicians convicted of abuse of power who had taken refuge for hours in the palace of President Andrzej Duda, in a dramatic escalation of a standoff between the new and previous governments. Duda had welcomed the members of the former ruling party into the presidential…
Broadcasters went off the air as opposition MPs barricaded themselves in public TV headquarters in an effort to stop the management changes. WARSAW — Poland’s new government moved Wednesday to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from the hands of loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which…
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (UPI) — South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace said Monday it has signed a $2.6 billion deal to deliver 152 K9 self-propelled howitzers to Poland by 2027. Under the contract, the firm will also provide Poland’s Armaments Agency with 155mm artillery ammunition and logistics support for the K9 howitzers. The Seoul-based company plans to work…
WARSAW, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Poles vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday which the opposition says will determine the country’s democratic standing and place in the European Union, after a bitterly contested campaign dominated by issues of sovereignty and security. Since coming to power in 2015, the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party has…
WARSAW, Aug 1 (Reuters) – Poland said on Tuesday it was rushing troops to its eastern border after accusing Belarus, Russia’s closest ally, of violating its airspace with military helicopters. The Belarusian military denied any such violation and accused NATO member Poland, one of Ukraine’s most fervent backers in its conflict with Russia, of making…
Critics say Poland’s ruling party is creating a mechanism that would allow it to mobilise legal apparatus against political opponents. Poland’s lawmakers voted on Friday to approve a divisive law on Russian influence criticised by the European Union and the US. There are fears the law, proposed in May by Poland’s ruling right-wing Law and…