Poland

BERLIN The German chancellor and Russian president discussed the Poland-Belarus border crisis in a phone talk on Wednesday. Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said the chancellor called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to…

WARSAW, Poland A peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century, when the Polish piano composer…

PARIS A landmark ruling by Poland’s top court rejecting the supremacy of EU law marks an attack on the European Union, France’s Europe Minister Clement Beaune said today. “It is very serious... there is the risk of a de-facto exit” of…

Taipei, Taiwan An agreement between Taiwan and Poland on legal cooperation on criminal matters will soon take effect, as it has now been signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said late…

KYIV, Ukraine Belarus’ president, beleaguered by six weeks of mass protests demanding his resignation, on Thursday announced he was putting troops on high alert and closing the country’s borders with Poland and Lithuania. President…

WARSAW, Poland Voters in Poland on Sunday will decide a tight runoff election between populist incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his liberal pro-European Union challenger, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Recent opinion polls show a…

WARSAW, Poland The coronavirus has ripped through Poland’s coal mines, where men descend deep underground in tightly packed elevators and work shoulder-to-shoulder to extract the source of 75% of the nation’s electrical power. Of Poland’s…