Stories from Scandinavia, Poland and Beyond
Poland eyes to Norway to kick-start its storage of CO2 pollution in the atmosphere underneath the Barents Sea. For that it is willing to pay 1 billion US dollars, via its energy company Orlen. So far a subsidiary of the […]
Accusations that former Polish-born pope John Paul II did little against child abuse inside the Catholic church are not new. But a Dutch journalist says he knew it even for a very long time when John Paul was still archbishop […]
Poland is not impressed by Russia’s leader Putin to cut the EU country, as well as Bulgaria, off from natural gas. Spring is coming, there are reserves and – how environmentally friendly it may be – a lot of people […]
While Poland has accepted more than 2.4 million refugees from Ukraine by the end of March, the country seems also to have its logistics in dealing with the humanitarian crisis in order. True, still taking the brunt of sheltering, schooling […]
Poland seems to have started a new course. Firstly, the government and opposition are since 29 March aligned on banning Russian coal – despite no EU-backing and Poland’s substantial need for coal. Secondly, the government seems to blow new life […]
I’m going to have a new classmate, the 10-year old son of a friend told me, he is from Ukraine. A little more than a week later three more Ukrainian kids will join his class, his teacher has said. This […]
A weird twister story around the war in Ukraine comes from Poland. After the European Union turned into an arms broker in February and advocated deliveries of fighter jets from Bulgaria, Slovakia and Poland to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Poland […]
While the world was wondering about the boundaries of Russia’s ambitions with Ukraine this week, one “block” to the west another border is not loosing its grim look either. Poland is a few weeks underway in making its own “Berlin […]
A general strike of all women and those who are supporting women’s rights is announced for entire Poland for Wednesday 28 October. It is set to be the highlight so far of almost a week of protests on the streets […]
Rows and rows of fruit trees dot the otherwise flat landscape just south of Warsaw. Once frequently travelled by Communist government workers to their state holiday resorts, road 801 on the eastern bank of the meandering Vistula river is much […]
(UPDATED 17 April 2020, 09:20 Warsaw Time) Fight the virus, not the women. With this slogan at least hundreds of Polish were protesting on Tuesday 14 April against their conservative PiS government party putting a total ban on abortion on […]
Towering up to almost 2,700 metres (8700 feet) above sea level, the Tatra Mountains form a natural border between Poland and Slovakia. Their dramatic beauty has been an inspiration for many mysterious tales and adventures. Take the Tatras as your […]
As a history buff I know Gdańsk mainly as the port city of resistance, of uprising. Standing strong the people of the Baltic Sea city first led in the fall of Polish communist leader Władysław Gomułka in the 1970s. In […]
My live radio chat today on Belgian Radio 1 (VRT): 15 year young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg held a kick-ass speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg) to the world leaders in Katowice (GOP24), Poland accusing them of stealing the future, but it is […]