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Thousands of people have gathered in cities across Poland after the fatal stabbing of the Gdańsk mayor, Paweł Adamowicz. In Gdańsk they were addressed by the European council president, Donald Tusk, a Gdańsk native, friend and longtime ally of Adamo...
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Poles mark a century of independence on Sunday amid tensions in the isolated and deeply polarised country over the role of far-right groups in the main parade.
Chaos engulfed plans for the state military parade in Warsaw days ahead of the centenary...
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Preparations for Sunday’s centenary of the restoration of Polish independence descended into farce this week with a bewildering series of events surrounding a nationalist march due to take place in central Warsaw.
The March of Independence, organise...
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On 27 April this year, Michal Iwanowski left his house in Cardiff to walk to his home village of Mokrzeszów in Poland. Carrying British and Polish passports and wearing a T-shirt bearing the word “Polska”, he began his 1,200-mile journey east, stick...