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Poland to push for 'radical' new EU treaty By Andrew Rettman The EU should have a new treaty that shifts power from the European Commission to...

Well, the big picture in the media terms is that NATO has enlarged from 12 countries in 1991 to 28 now, or 29, Montenegro due to join soon. So, the alliance, from being a defense alliance against the Soviet Union, has become obsessed with enlargement and it’s now enlarged all the way to Russia's borders with a potential enlargement to Georgia and to Ukraine.

At the time when Solidarnosc was legal (september 1980 – december 1981) its direction made a lot of provocations and miscalculated decisions so the enthousiasm that prevailed in september 1980 was gradually lost what explains the rather successfully introduced martial law in december 1981 and the then relative popularity of the leading « People’s Poland » aristocratic General Wojciech Jaruzelski. At the beginning of 1981, Solidarnosc had almost 10 millions members …but when it was banned, quite few workers did strike to save it and two years later, when the regime created a new Trade Union, the OPZZ, 7 millions out of 12 millions salaried people did join it. When Solidarnosc was relegalised in 1989, it could not even recuperate 2 millions of its former 10 millions members, the majority of salaried remaining then, 5 millions of them, in the « communist » but bureaucratised OPZZ Trade union. Since that time both opportunistically lead trade unions lost the majority of their former members.

Euro 2016 has just begun. Thousands of fans, despite unprecedented security measures, have already collided in real fights. This alone demonstrates that football for...

In advance of next month’s NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland, the western military alliance has organised a massive military build-up in Eastern Europe, heightening the danger of a military conflict with nuclear-armed Russia.

By Mateusz Piskorski On May 18th, 2016, the well-known Polish politician Mateusz Piskorski was arrested on charg-es of spying for “third countries.” Shortly before, he wrote...

The European Commission's ruling that the Polish government is amiss of the rule of law has taken Brussels one step closer to introducing sanctions...

You can watch the press conference held in Athens by president Putin and PM Tsipras from the 27th minute of the video and on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gMk0SfSJ-k

By Janusz Niedzwiecki - "Zmiana" political party Yesteday (18.05.2016) morning officers of Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) searched apartments of the members of national authorities of...

By Monika Karbowska On March 31st the District Court in Dąbrowa Górnicza acting on behalf of the Republic of Poland committed a violation of fundamental...