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It was the greatest champion of Ukraine's integration Europe, but even Poland is now struggling to summon up words of advocacy. In April 2007, when Michel Platini, the head...

Michał Kamiński is a Pole who can divide opinion across Europe. When Michał Kamiński was handed the leadership of the European Parliament's new European Conservatives...

New plan will not meet all Commission demands; Polish government wants to inject €361m in aid. The Polish minister responsible for drawing up the latest plan to save...

Poland lines up investors and provides the EU executive with restructuring plans for its Baltic shipyards. The Polish government has at the last minute submitted a plan to...

The victory of Donald Tusk's Civic Platform Party in Poland has been greeted in Brussels with a sigh of relief that at least one of the troublesome Kaczynski twins has been...

Ministers and diplomats shook their heads in disbelief last week after a symbolic move to establish a European day against the death penalty was stopped abruptly in its...

A member of the US government has said she will go to Warsaw for a controversial conference on the family despite a warning from 19 MEPs, who branded the views of the...

José Manuel Barroso delivered a most interesting speech last week which, on one level was a breezy defence of the case for EU institutional reform and on another a...

In 1984 I took a train from Braunschweig in what was then West Germany to Berlin. The train was run by the British armed forces and was sealed. The doors were locked and...

Relations between Poland and its EU partners have been a little tense of late, on account of the government in Warsaw cutting up rough over relations with Russia. Some cynics...

Standing on Warsaw's Piłsudskiego Square on Polish Independence Day (11 November), teenagers Natalia Pawtowska, Aleksandra Pastuszkie and Małgorzata Polak are...

Looking at Ilkka Laitinen's early career, one would assume he could handle anything thrown at him. The director of EU border agency Frontex started out as a border guard...

Poland's permanent representative to the EU Marek Grela is leaving Brussels after four years' service at Poland's forbidding Avenue de Tervuren headquarters. While Grela's...

When Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz formed a coalition government with two nationalist parties to gain a majority in Poland's parliament, the reaction across the EU...

The spring economic summit (23-24 March) will see a major test of the effectiveness of the Polish government's strident stance towards the EU. Polish Prime Minister...

Jeremy Rifkin, the American apostle of Europe, told an audience of Warsaw students last weekend that Poland was "saddled with the leadership of the ten new EU states". He...

Small, precocious and odious is a description often applied to child actors. Four decades ago, Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw were angelic teenage...

POLISH MEP Filip Adwent died on Sunday (26 June) as the result of a car crash which also killed his parents and eldest daughter. The 49-year-old member of the...

THE Dutch presidency says it expects a hard-fought deal between member states on a draft law on computer-implemented patents to be approved next month, despite threats from...

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,...