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Poland Doesn’t Want Migrants, but These Foreign Workers Are Welcome
A tiny village is taking in 6,000 laborers from Asia. They are needed by a petroleum company controlled by the right-wing government, which has vowed to keep migrants out.
A Tangled Past Complicates Poland’s Welcome to Ukrainian Refugees
Polish memories of ethnic pogroms by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1940s jostle with the trauma left by Russia and its war in Ukraine.
Polish Authorities Detain Athlete on Charges of Being Russian Spy
It was the 14th arrest stemming from the dismantling of what officials say was a plot to sabotage arms shipments to Ukraine.
NATO Stresses Risk of Wagner Group’s Potential Relocation to Belarus
“Belarus is unpredictable and dangerous, and this has not changed,” the Estonian prime minister, Kaja Kallas, said in Brussels at a news conference with NATO’s secretary general. “We are ready for any developments.”
Poland Rejects E.U. Ruling, Restarting a European Feud
Poland’s justice minister called the E.U. court of justice “corrupt,” after it ruled a judicial overhaul was illegal. He vowed not to comply, though that could cost Poland billions.
Huge Crowds Protest Poland’s Governing Conservative Party
The country’s largest antigovernment gathering in years sought to reclaim the legacy of the Solidarity movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow.
A Centuries-Old Mystery: Did This Elusive Viking City Exist?
Was a “medieval New York” called Jomsborg a literary fantasy or a historical reality? New archaeological discoveries may provide a clue.
E.U. Extends Tariff Waiver for Ukrainian Grain, Despite Some Protests
The bloc will provide more than $100 million to farmers in eastern countries where tariff-free Ukrainian grain produced a supply glut and plunging prices.
EU Extends Tariff-Free Ukraine Grain Policy, Despite Protests
Five countries whose farmers have been hurt by the policy, including Poland, will get carve-outs and compensation, under an agreement reached Friday.