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Warsaw to host new European Space Agency security centre
The facility will be the ESA’s first outside its 11 founding member states and first on the EU’s eastern flank.
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Poland signs €4.5 billion deal to buy three submarines from Sweden
“Relations between Poland and Sweden are the best they’ve ever been,” says the Swedish prime minister.
“No one will dictate which heroes we honour,” declares Zelensky amid dispute with Poland
His comments have been criticised by figures from across Poland’s political spectrum.
Poland records highest ever temperature as European heatwave moves east
A figure of 40.5°C (104.9°F) was recorded in the town of Słubice on Sunday afternoon.
Russia planning “provocations using Polish symbols” to stir tensions between Poland and Ukraine, warns Kyiv
Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation says Russia’s foreign military intelligence agency has been tasked with the operation.
Polish food and beverage giant Maspex buys leading Ukrainian drinks firm Karpatski Mineralni Vody
“The Ukrainian market is large and has great potential,” says Maspex’s CEO.
Over a third of households in Poland now consist of one person amid demographic change
Meanwhile, only a quarter of households now contain children.
Poland to build third LNG terminal in bid to become regional gas hub
“We are building a new security architecture for Europe,” says Poland’s energy minister.
New Hungarian PM Magyar “relaunches” Visegrád Group with Poland, Slovak and Czech Republic
A revived “V4 will be one of the greatest powers”, declared Poland’s Donald Tusk.
Poland must not repeat mistakes of West by using migration to solve demographic crisis, says president
Karol Nawrocki instead called for efforts to “promote the idea that family is the most important thing”.
Negative views of US and Trump continue to rise in Poland, finds international Pew study
Only 29% of Poles say they have confidence in Trump, down from 75% for Biden.
Zelensky set to skip Ukraine Recovery Conference in Poland amid diplomatic dispute
The decision comes shortly after Zelensky was stripped of Poland’s highest honour.
Largest ever sex abuse compensation case against Poland’s Catholic church begins
Janusz Szymik, who says he was raped hundreds of times by a priest in the 1980s, is seeking 20 million zloty from the archdiocese of Kraków.
