On March 12, 1999, in the city of Independence in the US, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright formally received the document ratifying our access to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. This was an unequivocal and clear declaration, in which a free and democratic Poland set out the vision of its security and the way in…
In a military package worth €1.5 billion, Poland inter alia purchased Carl-Gustaf M4 grenade launchers from Sweden on March 4. On the eve of Sweden’s official NATO entry as the alliance’s 32nd member, Poland’s Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz met Swedish Minister of Defense Pål Jonson at the 3rd Ship Flotilla in Gdynia on…
The war in Ukraine is facing military stalemate, but Poland appears to be winning the war of words. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on February 25 – two years on from the start of the new phase of the war in Ukraine – hit back at claims by the Russian ambassador to the UN, Vasily…
Denmark’s King Frederik X arrived in Warsaw on January 30 on his first visit abroad as monarch. Greeted by President Andrzej Duda, he later visited the Polish parliament where he met with the speaker of the lower chamber, Szymon Hołownia. According to the Danish Embassy in Warsaw, the main areas of interest for the business…
In the halls of the Zamoyski Palace in Warsaw, Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation Fabrice Filliez and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway Øystein Bø – in cooperation with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Head of UNHCR in Poland Kevin Allen – opened a ceremony to celebrate the Nansen Refugee…
Latest Eurostat data shows that Poland ranks 2nd in the EU for “overall life satisfaction” The latest results from Eurostat show that Poles rate their own life satisfaction much higher than many of their Western European counterparts, tying for 2nd place in the European Union (EU) alongside Finns and Romanians. The data on “quality of…
2023 was another great year for Poland and the UK with notable symbolic steps taken that reflect one of Europe’s most important partnerships. Underpinned by strong shared priorities on regional security and supporting Ukraine, Polish-UK relations have been closely developing at one of the most critical and challenging times in Europe’s recent history. There were…
The ‘Ukrainian woman in Poland’ project was created in March 2022. Julia, a Ukrainian woman from Donetsk living in Poland for the last 10 years, was one of its initiators. She tells Poland Weekly about the project and how she came to be involved in it. “There is a saying in both Poland and Ukraine…
The programme Orka launched in 2014, one of the most important modernisation programmes in the Polish Armed Forces, provides for purchase of new submarines for the Polish Navy. On 29 November 2023 Hanwha Ocean from the South Korea expressed its aspirations for a strategic collaboration and presented a comprehensive package of proposals concerning its KSS…
Nathaniel England The annual Warsaw Security Forum (WSF) took place on October 3-4. This is one of the biggest international security conferences in Europe, taking place for the 10th year running. Attended by over 2,000 participants from 90 countries, with 200 speakers, this year’s forum consisted of four main tracks: defense, global outlook, energy and…
On October 24-28, the Polish-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (PPCC) organized its latest mission of Polish business representatives to Portugal. It was attended by five companies from the following industries: cosmetics, cryotherapy devices, defense industry and two Special Economic Zones: Wałbrzych and Kostrzyn-Słubice. More than 30 b2b meetings were organized at the headquarters of Portuguese companies….
Beata Tomczyk talks to Dr Jacek Bartosiak, attorney at law, founder and owner of Strategy & Future. What exactly did Vladimir Putin want to achieve – we ask after more than six months of the war in Ukraine. Was it really about blocking the expansion of the zone of NATO countries and the European Union?…
