Poland election: Duda forced into second round against liberal Trzaskowski
Incumbent won the most votes but fell short of the 50 per cent needed to win
Why thousands of Poles speak English with a Roscommon accent
Ireland was a ‘Banana Republic’ when Michael Gannon left for a new life in Poland
Gdansk councillors vote to remove statue of controversial priest
Ex-Solidarity chaplain Fr Henryk Jankowski subject of claims of abuse and anti-Semitism
Warsaw museum intensifies debate around anti-Semitism
Sited on former ghetto, Polin Museum is accused of hosting overly political exhibitions
A political battle over history now grips Poland’s proudest memory
How the fall of the Berlin Wall began in a beautiful Baltic port city in Poland with the Solidarity movement
From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever
Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music
Polish PM under attack as supreme court judge refuses to retire
Court president Malgorzata Gersdorf goes to work in defiance of judicial reforms
Sting: ‘When I get angry I’m a Geordie. It’s very effective’
The former Police singer talks music, politics and his brush with the IRA
Poland’s president vetoes controversial judicial bills
Reform laws passed by parliament triggered nationwide demonstrations
Trump says future of Western civilisation is at stake
US president uses speech in Poland to appeal for Western unity in the face of ‘dire threats’
In Poland, ‘alternative facts’ provide a new national narrative
Jaroslaw Kaczynski endorses ideological view that the real world is ‘very brutal’
France is too self-assured to get its knickers in a twist over football
Versailles life doesn’t reach full throttle until 5pm – and by nine they are winding down
Former Polish first ladies criticise proposed abortion ban
Open letter calls for retention of status quo of relatively restrictive abortion legislation
Walesa was paid informant for communists, historian claims
Ex-Solidarity leader says papers found at late Polish minister’s summer house are fake
Former Polish minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski dies
The 93-year-old, who survived Auschwitz, was also a writer and activist
1989’s other revolutions
The Berlin Wall’s fall was a death knell for a Soviet bloc in which the first fissures had appeared elsewhere
Repressive general who finally yielded to democracy
Wojciech Jaruzelski: July 6th, 1923 - May 25th, 2014
Poland’s last communist ruler Jaruzelski dies aged 90
Former president crushed Solidarity movement but later handed over power
Poland’s first prime minister after the fall of communism
Tadeusz Mazowiecki: Born: April 18th, 1927;Died: October 28th, 2013
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