-- Germany should step up its defense spending to set an example for the European Union as doubts grow about US military support for Ukraine, a senior Polish defense official said. Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk also supports exploring new financing schemes, for example issuing joint EU debt to finance military spending, which “would allow us to buy more and …
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WARSAW, Poland — Polish leaders met Tuesday with the wife of imprisoned Belarusian human rights campaigner and Nobel peace laureate Ales Bialiatski to stress Warsaw’s continued support for Belarus’ democratic opposition and political prisoners. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau held meetings in Warsaw with Natalia Pinchuk, while President Andrzej Duda was also due to see her. …
The sprinter was in “direct contact” with Polish diplomats in Tokyo, said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz, adding that Warsaw would do “whatever is necessary to help her to continue her sporting career”. Tokyo: Poland on Monday granted a humanitarian visa to Belarusian athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who claimed her team tried to forcibly send her back to her authoritarian homeland …
Women’s rights activists and their supporters block rush-hour traffic at a major roundabout in Warsaw on Monday on the fifth day of nationwide protests against recent court ruling that tightened Poland’s restrictive abortion law. Women’s rights activists and many thousands of their supporters held a fifth day of protests across Poland on Monday, defying pandemic restrictions to express their opposition …
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