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Half the ministers in Donald Tusk's second, ‘continuity' government are new to the cabinet. The Polish parliament has today approved the second government of Donald Tusk,...

Prime minister says no reshuffle before end of EU presidency. Donald Tusk, Poland's newly re-elected prime minister, said on Tuesday (11 October) that the current government...

EU leaders and officials pay their respects after Poland's “unimaginable catastrophe”. The European Union's three main institutions lowered their flags to half-mast...

Quieter times are on the cards in Polish politics. Fewer sparks may be expected from the Palac Koniecpolskich – the official residence in Warsaw of the president of Poland...

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...

If you are planning to give an eastern European country some unpleasant news, it is good to know which dates to avoid. History was a long time ago, unless it happened to...

Former Polish prime minister to head the European Parliament for two-and-a-half years. Polish centre-right MEP Jerzy Buzek was today elected as the president of the European...

Constitutional Court says that key elements of the EU's reform treaty does not undermine the Czech Republic's constitution. The Czech Republic's highest court has just...

Bronislaw Geremek, MEP and leader of the Polish Solidarity movement, died on Sunday 13 July. Bronislaw Geremek, the Solidarity leader, politician and intellectual turned...

French presidential office again links enlargement to adoption of the EU's reform treaty. PARIS | French President Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to speak to Polish President...

The Polish parliament voted on 28 February to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon through parliamentary procedure rather than a popular referendum, though a date for the vote has not...

“When the Federal Reserve cuts rates, things get better. When we don't cut ours, we sink.” Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, on the rate cut by the US Federal...

Poland's Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga arrived in the Portuguese seaside town on Viana do Castelo last Friday (7 September) with a shopping-list of changes for the reform...

The Polish have a ghastly history as Europe's battlefield. Over the centuries the population has had a choice of viewing: oppression and exploitation from the east or the...

The confrontation between Poland's nationalist government and the EU over Italian bank Unicredito's taking control of Poland's second and third largest banks sharpened this...

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...

A debate in the Polish parliament about the possibility of Poland joining the eurozone was passionate, but proved thin on actual facts. Parties with nationalistic and...

Poland's science sector is undernourished and, it seems, badly managed. Polish scientific circles have for years been waiting for a new law on higher education. The bill is...

RELATIONS between Poland and Germany, once the pride of both nations, are now in crisis. It is not an ordinary diplomatic crisis as occurred over the war in Iraq and the...

THE final result of next month's European elections will be delayed by up to 48 hours – because votes in Poland have to be transported some 150 kilometres by road....