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Poland: More Than 2.5 Million Ukrainian Refugees
6Apr By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Europe, News, Poland, Ukraine

Poland: More Than 2.5 Million Ukrainian Refugees

More than 2.5 million people have crossed the border between Ukraine and Poland since February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. The Polish border control authority reports this.   According to this agency, which provides updated data every morning, 485,000 people have also travelled the other way since the outbreak of the war. On Tuesday, there were still 471,000. In total, just over 2.52 million people have now come to Poland from Ukraine. On Tuesday, 21,000 crossed the border. That is an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous day when 18,500 people were involved. Before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the Polish border guards counted about 4,700 refugees. United Nations figures show that nearly 4.28 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Howev...
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Army of Poland on High Readiness After Invasion in Ukraine
24Feb By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Europe, News, Poland, Ukraine

Army of Poland on High Readiness After Invasion in Ukraine

Poland puts its army on high alert after Russia's invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. All soldiers are called to the barracks, and all leave has been revoked, Polish media reported.   In the border town of Medyka, about 80 kilometres west of Lviv, the air raid siren sounds.   The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on all Polish citizens to leave Ukraine immediately.
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Polish Senator Accuses Government of Hacking
28Dec By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Europe, News, Poland, Technology

Polish Senator Accuses Government of Hacking

The Pegasus scandal around espionage software of the NSO group gets a tail in Poland. Senator Krzysztof Brejza's smartphone has been hacked up to 33 times there around the 2019 elections.   That writes news agency AP News, based on research by Citizen Lab, the media laboratory of the University of Toronto. Brejza is a politician of Poland's largest opposition party, Civic Platform. His smartphone has been attacked about 33 times between April 26 and October 23, 2019, the period of regional elections in Poland. It was eventually won by the Law and Justice party. The espionage attacks included the stolen text messages, according to AP News. This was allegedly used to spread fake reports on the state broadcaster about Brejza; for example, he created groups to spread anti-government pr...
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Poland Prime Minister Calls Crisis at Polish Border a Threat to EU
9Nov By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Europe, News, Poland

Poland Prime Minister Calls Crisis at Polish Border a Threat to EU

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki calls the flow of migrants who want to illegally enter Poland from Belarus a threat to the entire European Union. Nearly 4,000 migrants are currently trying to enter the EU through Poland. Closing the Polish border is of national importance, but the stability and security of the entire European Union are also at stake," Morawiecki said on Twitter. "This attack by the Lukashenko regime is against all of us. We will not be intimidated and will defend peace in Europe with our partners from the EU and NATO." Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has made a policy of collecting migrants from countries such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and then sending them to EU borders, according to the EU, to destabilize the EU. They would be counter-actions to ...
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Hungary and Poland Have Accepted A Compromise Proposal on the EU Budget
9Dec By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Europe, Hungary, News, Poland

Hungary and Poland Have Accepted A Compromise Proposal on the EU Budget

Hungary and Poland have accepted a compromise proposal on the EU budget and the Corona Recovery Fund with some reserve.   Rotating EU president Germany has been trying to find a way out of the stalemate on this for some time. The two countries are holding back approval so far because the plans provide that violators could lose their EU subsidies if they violate the rule of law. The content of the compromise has not been disclosed. It is first presented to the Netherlands and other countries that do not want the water to be compromised when it comes to respect for the rule of law. According to a Polish government official, the goal is to reach an agreement before the heads of government meet in Brussels on Thursday afternoon for their December summit. An earlier compromise proposa...
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