Two passenger trains collided head-on in southern Poland late on Saturday leaving at least 14 people dead and several others injured in one of the worst train crashes the country has seen in two decades.
The wave of protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has reached Poland. Activists say it is an attempt by governments to take control of cyberspace, and a threat to their freedom. The Polish government insists it is necessary to protect intellectual property. While the EU and eight other countries have signed the document, it is in Eastern Europe that the text has raised the most heckles.
At least 150 people died across Europe as temperatures fell to record lows from Bulgaria to Italy. Ukrainian authorities set up temporary shelters for the poor and French officials banned trucks from some highways.
Wislawa Szymborska (pictured), a Nobel Prize laureate in poetry, died of lung cancer Wednesday, aged 88. Arguably the most popular poet in Poland, she tackled serious subjects with simplicity and humour.
Colonel Mikolaj Przybyl, a prosecutor investigating military corruption and media leaks in connection with a 2010 air crash in which the Polish president and other officials died, apparently shot himself Monday during a break at a news conference.
Warsaw's 6-month turn at the head of Europe ended on December 31st when Denmark took over. Poland's EU presidency took place during one of the worst periods in the bloc's history. With the eurozone fighting for survival and the UK drifting further away from Brussels, the European Union is facing an existential crisis. How has Poland fared in this stormy weather?
Warsaw's 6-month turn at the head of Europe ended on December 31st when Denmark took over. Poland's EU presidency took place during one of the worst periods in the bloc's history. With the eurozone fighting for survival and the UK drifting further away from Brussels, the European Union is facing an existential crisis. How has Poland fared in this stormy weather?
Poland is coming to the end of its six-month presidency of the EU. Last week, it made a dramatic appeal for Germany to show more leadership in the current eurozone crisis, showing the clock is ticking...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia was ready to deploy missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave, which borders EU member states Poland and Lithuania, to offset the threat from a planned US missile shield in Europe.
