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Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), says it was Germany’s decision to open Europe’s borders, not Poland’s, and his countrymen should not have to pay for their neighbour’s mistakes.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s main opposition party said Friday it is seeking a parliamentary vote of no-confidence against the conservative government which, it said, is “demolishing” the country and wants to bring it out of the European Union.

Xavier Bettel, who succeeded European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as Prime Minister of Luxembourg in 2013, has told the British press it is not too late to say “we love you” to the European Union (EU) and stop Brexit.

“Anti-establishment” parties which lie on the ‘radical right’ of the political spectrum enjoy the most support amongst young people in Poland, new research has found.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says it’s not in his country’s interests for Donald Tusk to serve a second term as head of the European Council, a key European Union leadership position.

Declaring its conservative government a threat to ‘European values’, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the European Union (EU) to consider activating a mechanism dubbed the ‘nuclear option’ against Poland.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who now serves as President of the European Union’s powerful unelected executive, will not stand for a second term after 2019. The despondent 62-year-old said he doubted the bloc would hold together during

The Polish interior minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, has promised new migration laws which will boost national security, strengthen the country’s borders, and make it easier to expel illegal migrants.

Europe can “no longer be taken for granted as a bastion of democratic stability” according to a new report by Freedom House, an NGO with ties to George Soros. “The rise of antiestablishment parties in Poland, France, Germany” is identified

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s most powerful politician said Monday that he would tell German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an upcoming visit that she has some responsibility for what he sees as the German media’s critical and harmful opinion of Poland.

Multiculturalism, political correctness and mass migration are responsible for terror attacks in Europe, Poland’s interior minister has said. Blasting Western Europe’s response to terror — holding marches and drawing pictures of flowers — as ineffective, Mariusz Blaszczak said governments should

Law and Justice (PiS) party leader has demanded Britain hold a second referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) but warns that first, the union must “radically change”. Describing the UK’s decision to leave the EU as something “very

An open letter from three former presidents and seven opposition politicians and activists, calling on the Polish people to “defend democracy” against the mandate of their democratically elected government, was splashed across the front page of the nation’s leading newspaper yesterday. The

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — On the heels of electoral defeat four years ago, Polish right-wing party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski stood before supporters and declared that eventually victory would be theirs. “I am convinced the day is coming,” he told his

The New York Times writes about how Poland’s new right-wing government is taking power in Poland: WARSAW — In the few weeks since Poland’s new right-wing government took over, its leaders have alarmed the domestic opposition and moderate parties throughout

Poland’s bold new right-wing government looks set to be an assertive player on the European stage and is already limbering up for tussles on migrant quotas and relations with Russia. But a leading member of the victorious Law and Justice