Politics
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Politico: Adam Bodnar – Polish justice minister at center of political battle
Read more: Politico: Adam Bodnar – Polish justice minister at center of political battleA bitter fight has erupted as the new government tries to undo eight years of policy by the Law and Justice party. https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-adam-bodnar-justice-minister-center-political-battle-rule-of-law-pis-duda-tusk/
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DW: Global shipping on edge after Houthis seize Israeli vessels
Read more: DW: Global shipping on edge after Houthis seize Israeli vesselsSince Houthis seized a ship owned by an Israeli businessman last week in the Red Sea, global shipping has been taking stock of potentially rising risks. On November 19, Yemeni Houthis seized a Japanese-operated cargo ship in the Red Sea, with armed men jumping onto its deck from a helicopter before…
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DW: Swiss ‘water battery’ boosts Europe’s energy storage plans
Read more: DW: Swiss ‘water battery’ boosts Europe’s energy storage plansA Swiss company has built what is being called a giant water battery deep under the Alps that provides an energy storage capacity equivalent to 400,000 electric car batteries. It could be a game changer. https://www.dw.com/en/swiss-water-battery-boosts-europes-energy-storage-plans/a-63923662
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Anadolu Agency: Polish director defiant as pre-election attacks about migrant film reach fever pitch
Read more: Anadolu Agency: Polish director defiant as pre-election attacks about migrant film reach fever pitcholish film director Agnieszka Holland said her new film, The Green Border, which shows non-European migrants’ experiences on the Polish-Belarusian border, is helping to treat Poles with historical trauma. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/polish-director-defiant-as-pre-election-attacks-about-migrant-film-reach-fever-pitch/3020212?fbclid=IwAR3EHQHiJ5TzduKqmF2Gzd_Fmtw80mHFr-2KHk0_VTm_ygn2OHTEoR1njBY#
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Forbes: Come at the King, best not miss
Read more: Forbes: Come at the King, best not missAn ex-Financial Times Warsaw reporter fires off a typically searing analysis over the phone. The ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS) are a bunch of shits, he says. “And I want them out.” The Guardian, meanwhile, writes about – or is it calls for? – a…
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DW: Eastern Europe – Labor migration on the rise
Read more: DW: Eastern Europe – Labor migration on the risePoland and Hungary continue to oppose the European Union migrant quotas. But despite their anti-immigration rhetoric, immigration from non-EU countries is growing. https://www.dw.com/en/labor-migration-on-the-rise-in-poland-hungary/a-66205353 “I could not have imaged three years ago that I would be sitting in Warsaw drinking Polish beer,” says Shourya Singh, a…
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Anadolu Agency: Poland remembers Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 80 years on
Read more: Anadolu Agency: Poland remembers Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 80 years onWednesday, April 19 marks the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — the first large-scale urban uprising in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. At an official commemoration, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda were joined by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the…
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Emerging Europe – Speaking with Poland’s far-right
Read more: Emerging Europe – Speaking with Poland’s far-rightPoland’s ruling party Law and Justice often gets portrayed as being ‘far-right’, and not without reason. The fact is, however, that another party already occupies that space of Polish politics, and support for it is increasing. The Polish party Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość (usually shortened…
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Emerging Europe – Poles and Belarusians divided by a common history
Read more: Emerging Europe – Poles and Belarusians divided by a common historyBelarus is rewriting history to achieve political goals, and the country’s Polish community is paying the price. World War II is embedded in the mental and emotional landscape of the borderlands, an area loosely stretching along the Poland and Belarusian border to Lithuania. In the…