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A round-up of the stories making news around Europe. The debt row in the US has ended after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of a deal to prevent...

A round-up of the headlines making news around Europe. US President Barack Obama has announced a last-minute deal to raise the United States' borrowing limit, and urged...

A documentary about the death of Poland's former president makes other conspiracy theories look like serious historical research. What's ‘illuminati' spelled backwards?...

Poland's prime minister and foreign minister should not spend time denouncing Radio Maryja. An enjoyable pastime for the political connoisseur is googling unlikely...

From dealing with a national tragedy to annoying Obama, who shone, and who stank, during the year. The year's end is time to offer bouquets and brickbats to the stars and...

Apprehending Akhmed Zakayev may have helped the Chechens and has shown a lack of consistency on Poland's part. Depending on how you look at it, Poland's arrest of Akhmed...

Jarosław Kaczyński concedes victory to Jarosław Kaczyński in battle between the Polish right wing for the post of president. The new president of Poland looks all but...

Kaczyński trails speaker of Polish parliament Bronisław Komorowski emerged today with a relatively narrow lead from the first round of voting to elect Poland's president.

In a bid to gain the presidency vacated by his late twin brother, Jarosław Kaczyński is trying to present a less confrontational side to Poles. US President Franklin D....

The role played by Lech Kaczynski in the Smolensk disaster may affect his brother's chances of the presidency. In the churches of Warsaw and other Polish cities, the...

Fisheries meeting and accession talks with Croatia abandoned, European Parliament plenary meeting in doubt. The spread of an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption Iceland has...

The death of a Polish president in Russia could bring Warsaw and Moscow closer together Ever since the end of the Second World War, reconciliation between nations and their...

As this column noted recently, the era of ‘therapeutic historiography' is drawing to a close in central and eastern Europe (with the odd exception). Even before the...

EU institutions hold a memorial service for Polish officials killed in Smolensk air disaster. Jerzy Buzek, the president of the European Parliament, today led a memorial...

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...

Lech Kaczyński, Poland's central bank governor and the head of the Polish armed forces are believed to have died in a plane crash in Russia. President Lech Kaczyński...

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...

In targeting ethnic Poles, the Belarusian authorities are testing how far they can go before the EU takes a tougher line. When the Belarusian authorities launched an...