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Stereotyping and ignorance about Poles remains commonplace in the UK Polish is now Britain's second language, with 550,000 speakers, according to newly released census...

How can one unite the EU's member states when they have very different emotional calendars? Madrid and Warsaw recently looked very similar: both were the sites of massive...

The EU's new Arctic strategy will seek to reassure the Arctic states that it sees its role in the region as supportive. For those who care about the Arctic, 9 October 2008 is...

The impact of climate change on shipping. One of the biggest questions for researchers – at least in commercial and geopolitical terms – is the impact of climate change...

Tapping the High North's energy will demand a great deal of commercial and political energy. The starting gun for the ‘race to the north' narrative of the 2000s may have...

The EU needs a light touch in the north. In texts and conversations about the Arctic, certain words recur frequently. “Unique”, “fragile”, “vulnerable” are...

The European Union is funding an increasing number of research projects in the Arctic, but MEPs want greater co-ordination and focus. For many years, the Arctic was an...

Two books offer different scenarios for the Arctic's new role in geopolitics. As a boy, when Charles Emmerson first went north of the Arctic Circle, he expected the train to...

European Commission urges EU to seize the energy and commercial opportunities created by a melting Arctic. Global warming is melting more and more Arctic ice each year,...

The EU looks to exploit the oil and gas riches of the Arctic. The EU should have a bigger role in governing the Arctic and should consider how to exploit its vast...

New British map outlines potential lines of argument in battle for future energy resources. In a survey that could both help resolve and fuel the international...

After the election as prime minister two years ago of the Kaczynski Brother – the one without cat hairs on his suit – two million young Poles voted with their feet, going...

Your family is kidnapped by a cult that murders your best and brightest, steals your money and tries to brainwash your children. Eventually, it collapses and you are free –...

Humour is a risky business: at the height of the Stalin terror, the wrong kind of laughter could mean death in the Gulag. And even 15-odd years after the collapse of...

British humour: Poland's foreign ministry has announced that the British ambassador to Poland, Charles Crawford, will be invited in "to compare the British and Polish senses...

How many Polish plumbers have come to France and other EU15 countries, undercutting the wages of native workers and boosting unemployment figures? Far fewer than the public...

If your job involves Eastern Europe, August looks like a good time for holidays. As in most of the continent, it is a month when officials are unavailable, government shuts...

THE Polish diaspora numbers more than ten million people and it is constantly growing. Although Polish emigrants have traditionally chosen America as their Promised Land,...

The die is cast. For the first time since the Holy Alliance, Europe is united: it breathes with both its lungs – western and eastern. No matter how trite it may sound, 1...

“THE basic difference between Poles and Germans is that while the former prefer to enjoy life, the latter opt for steady hard work,” says Erike Neumüller from...