crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border," Maciej Wasik told public broadcaster Polskie Radio 1.... " In

" As a political prisoner, I started a hunger strike from the first day of my imprisonment." Police entered Poland's presidential palace to detain two of their former bosses on Tuesday, executing a court order to take the ex-interior minister and his deputy to prison and escalating a row between the head of state and the new government. After winning power in October, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a former top EU official, has vowed to undo policies of his predecessors, the nationalist Law and Jus

Belarus’ border protection agency said Friday that it tightened control along its border with Lithuania to prevent Lithuanian authorities from sending migrants back to Belarus. Lithuania, a member of the European Union, has faced an influx of mostly Iraqi migrants in the past few months.... It accused the government of Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging the migrant flow in retaliation for the EU sanctions against his country following the diversion of a passeng

Poland preparing for potential influx of Ukrainian refugees-Interior MinisterPoland is preparing for ‘various scenarios’ for a possible influx of refugees if Russia were to attack Ukraine, Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski has said. Washington has said Russia, which has more than 100, 000 troops massed near Ukraine, could invade at any moment.... Moscow denies having any such plans." In connection with the situation in Ukraine we are preparing for various scenarios.... Ciechanow’s town hall d

You can check out at any time.... We are witnessing an unprecedented attack on the rule of law.... This has nothing to do with democratic standards....

Footage from Kuznica-Bruzgi showed hundreds of people pooling up around the border amid reports of an attempt to enter Poland from Belarus.... The two countries have been at loggerheads for weeks, with Minsk claiming Poland has failed to respect agreements on the management of the migrant crisis.... Belarusian journalist Tadeusz Giczan shared a video from the border documenting people approaching the Polish border, suggesting a majority of the migrants have been so far unable to cross into Pol

MOSCOW — Germany pressed Russia in a phone call between leaders Wednesday to use its influence to stop the crisis on the Poland-Belarus border, where desperate migrants are stranded up against a border fence, trying to enter Poland.Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight Aside from the harrowing scenes of migrants, many of them women and children, huddled in freezing conditions in forest near the border, the scene has become a flash point for tensions between the European Union a

People hold Polish flags during the annual Independence Day march in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov.... Security forces patrolled the capital for the parade, which was peaceful, unlike those in recent years that have seen violence by some extremists.... The march was overshadowed by events unfolding along Poland's border with Belarus, where thousands of riot police, troops and border guards are turning back migrants, many from the Middle East, who are trying to enter the European Union....

Poland's President Donald Tusk( Image: Getty) Ursula von der Leyen and other eurocrats in Brussels have been savaged for turning a blind eye to new Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s media crackdown in Poland, including “ sending riot police to arrest journalists ”.... Mr Tusk is locked in an increasingly bitter battle with political opponents in the right-wing Law and Justice Party( PiS), and has faced strong criticism both domestically and internationally for his decision to take TVP, Poland’s nati