Poland

Galway loses another restaurant: ‘I had depression for one month. This was my dream. But we have to close’

The couple behind Polka Polish Cuisine say high overheads and a drop in diners due to the cost of living have made their business untenable

European asylum policy continues to shift to the right

Under pressure from the far right, focus of EU leaders moves to more deportations and tighter borders

Adventures in Gdańsk: A few bars of Whiskey in the Jar later and I’m searching for my life jacket

This city with a complicated history has much to offer tourists: just watch out for the trad-singing

Poland’s Tusk says he will protect Polish security at EU summit

President Andrzej Duda joined the criticism of the asylum policy adopted by the government, saying it would harm Belarusian dissidents fleeing repression

‘We moved in with each other after seven days. We got engaged after eight months’

Kilkenny is now home to Nicole Server, from the Philippines, and Bart Pawlukojc, from Poland

Ex-Stasi officer sentenced over Berlin Wall killing in 1974

Polish man Czeslaw Kukuczka was shot in the back as he tried to escape to West Germany

Warsaw’s former police chief accused of accidentally blowing hole in headquarters with grenade launcher

Jaroslaw Szymczyk thought grenade launcher was a loudspeaker, say reports

A Romani survivor of Nazi terror: ‘Young people, babies, infants, were beaten to death’

Holocaust survivor Christian Pfeil says ‘it’s important to remind society again and again that this actually happened’, especially at a time when right-wing extremism is growing across Europe

Central Europe counts cost of floods as Storm Boris prompts evacuations in Italy

EU pledges billions to repair efforts after deadly and devastating inundation

Poland and Hungary on alert as floodwaters near peak in major cities

Central European states to seek EU help to fund recovery from deadly and devastating disaster

Germany grapples with fresh economic blow as Intel pulls plug on new plant

Site-clearing had already begun at giant new site for the troubled chipmaker

Central European floods leave trail of devastation as new areas placed on alert

Danube’s waters continue to rise in in Slovakia and Hungary, with parts of Austria and Romania inundated after heavy rains

Europe floods: At least 15 killed amid record water levels across east and centre of Continent

Czech military helicopters deployed to rescue people from homes as evacuations take place in multiple cities in several countries

At least eight dead as heavy rains and gale force winds hit central Europe

Lower Austria, the state surrounding Vienna, declared a disaster area with some 20,000 rescue crew members at work

Prague on high flood alert as central Europe faces torrential rain

Similar weather expected in southern Germany and parts of Austria, Poland, and Slovakia over coming days

Poland marks 85th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion

Prime minister Donald Tusk says lessons of the past, and present Russian aggression, underline importance of strong defence

Kaczyński party faces funding cuts after Polish election commission ruling

PiS accused of plundering state coffers to fund failed 2023 campaign

Eighty years on, Warsaw Uprising remains a proud act of Polish resistance

Calls for historical commemoration projects and more compensation for wartime survivors from Germany for suffering it inflicted

Voters must be lured back to the polls with so much always at stake

Democracy requires people to see the need to vote. France, Iran and Poland show the way

Polish parliament rejects Bill seeking to ease strict abortion law

Draft law highlighted deep divisions in Donald Tusk’s ruling coalition

Ukraine’s military recruitment drive looks to prisons and Poland to boost numbers

Modernised and expanded mobilisation system aims to stamp out corruption and draft dodging

A weekend in Krakow, where history hums below the city’s surface

As Poland’s second city, beautiful Krakow emerged from the second World War relatively unscathed in architectural terms, but not in matters of life and death

Green Border review: muscular, urgent dramatisation of the refugee crisis

Agnieszka Holland’s powerful depiction of border-crossing has angered Polish authorities and refugee agencies in equal measure

Poland clamps down on hospitals refusing to perform abortions

Clinic that denied termination to woman whose pregnancy may have endangered her life fined €127,000

US politics are in turmoil - so why is the country booming?

America thrives during times of political strife, and it’s not the only one. Maybe we overrate the importance of politics

Slovakian PM Robert Fico in ‘serious but stable’ condition after assassination attempt

Shooting has exposed an increasingly febrile and polarised political climate in Slovakia and across Europe, say commentators

EU to drop rule of law proceedings against Poland

Billions of euro in funding had been withheld over concerns about the judiciary

EU enlargement anniversary overshadowed by concerns about Russia

In a sign of the times around Europe, economic benefits of EU membership have yielded to more earnest discussions about security

I’ve been stopped entering a pub and told ‘we don’t rent to Poles’. But Ireland is my home now

Twenty years after EU accession, the Polish migrant community is regarded as too different to be fully included in Irish society, but not different enough to merit additional supports

Irish developer wins appeal over attempt to enforce €6.3m judgment

At issue is investment in Polish shopping centre project

Polish farmers suspend blockade of Ukraine border

Ukrainian farm minister Mykola Solsky praised what he said was ‘constructive work’ by Poland

Poles in Ireland: ‘You’re always going to be a blow-in, no matter how long you live in a place’

As the 20th anniversary of Poland joining the EU approaches, Poles reflect on their experiences here

Poland’s foreign minister warns of Nato members who lack the courage to face down Putin

Sikorski says new Donald Tusk government ready to ‘return to the group of countries creating Europe rather than defending themselves against Europe’

Losing its religion: Catholic Poland looks to Irish example as it moves towards secularism

Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility

Germany should decriminalise abortion, says government commission

Group presents proposals to permit abortion until the 12th week of pregnancy

European countries rebuff Kyiv’s call for more air defences as Russia hammers energy grid

Zelenskiy castigates Ukraine’s western allies for ‘turning a blind eye’ following destruction of largest power plant in capital region

Polish MPs vote to move forward with legislation aimed at lifting near-total abortion ban

Four Bills sent for further study by committee, including two proposing legalising procedure until 12th week of pregnancy

Bodnar battles to pull Poland back from ‘rule-of-law collapse’

The new justice minister is leading an unprecedented democratic experiment

Polish fears over defence and security ahead of local elections

Surge in Poles buying Tenerife ‘safe havens’ even before last week’s warning from Polish prime minister Donald Tusk that Europe is in a pre-war era

Fine Gael’s choice to replace a property-owning democracy with a rent-paying one has unsettled a generation

And that’s just one of the big problems Simon Harris will face as taoiseach

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