The issue of whether Polish businesses will profit from post-war reconstruction of Ukraine raised its head again recently. The picture is perhaps not as black as some have painted. According to the World Bank, it will cost about $411 billion to rebuild Ukraine’s housing, infrastructure, and services destroyed by Russia. During the June 2023 Ukraine…
The recent death of a Polish soldier stabbed at the fence by a Moroccan migrant has put the already fraught Poland-Belarus border area under intense scrutiny. The arrest of three Polish soldiers for shooting in the direction on migrants at the border has further exacerbated it. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government would restore…
Poland and Korea were both ruled by foreign powers at the start of the 20th century, Poland partitioned between Austria, Germany and Russia, and Korea under Japanese rule. Such shared histories of external oppression are clearly a factor that brought the two nations closer together after the Cold War. Today Korea and Poland have a…
At a meeting held at the level of defense ministries of the United Kingdom and Poland on March 13, it was decided to continue the existence of the British Sky Saber air defense systems deployed in Poland after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Polish Minister of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak – Kamysz and his British…
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…
The Polish government would welcome Bundeswehr soldiers stationed in Poland, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview published in Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung. “German officers are already working here in NATO outposts, in my hometown of Bydgoszcz, and also in Szczecin. After Russian missiles fell near the border, we temporarily deployed…
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…
