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Germany and Poland staged festivities in twin towns on their shared border to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski met in Frankfurt an der Oder and Słubice on Wednesday. The two visited Słubice's Collegium Polonicum academic institution on the Polish side, then joined a festival and crossed the Oder Bridge to Frankfurt an der Oder in Germany. Baerbock called May 1, 2004, an "incredible moment" for the continent. On that day, the former Eastern Bloc states of Estonia, Latvia...
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Germany and Poland are staging festivities in twin towns on their shared border to mark the 20th anniversary of Poland's accession to the European Union. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski are to meet in Frankfurt an der Oder and Słubice on Wednesday. The two are due to visit Słubice's Collegium Polonicum academic institution on the Polish side on Wednesday, starting at 11:30 am (0930 GMT), then join a festival and cross the Oder Bridge to the German city of Frankfurt an der Oder. At the time, former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer a...
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Poland is open to hosting nuclear weapons from NATO allies, President Andrzej Duda said on Monday. Duda made the comments in an interview published Monday in the Polish tabloid Fakt. "If there were a decision by our allies to deploy nuclear weapons within the nuclear sharing also on our territory in order to strengthen the security of NATO's eastern flank, we are ready," Duda said. However, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for further details from Duda. "This idea is absolutely massive, I would say, and very serious. I would need to know all the circumstances that have led the pres...
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Poland is joining a Czech initiative to procure 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine from countries outside the EU, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Thursday. Warsaw not only wanted to offer financial support, but also to help with the logistics, he said at a meeting with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia in the so-called Visegrad Group format. The aim, Sikorski said, was to get the ammunition to where it was needed on the front line. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, however, was adamant that his country would not be involved in the initiative....
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Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has responded positively to French President Emmanuel Macron's recent comments that Western troops could be deployed in Ukraine. "The presence of NATO forces in Ukraine is not unthinkable," Sikorski wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Friday evening, more than a week after the French leader caused a stir with his remarks at a meeting of European leaders. "I appreciate French President Emmanuel Macron's initiative, because it is about Putin being afraid, not us being afraid of Putin," he continued. Poland has been a staunch ally of Uk...
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Some 20,000 soldiers from nine NATO countries transporting battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other military equipment crossed the Vistula river on Monday in a major NATO manoeuvre to test its readiness against Russia. The operation - Dragon 24 - took place on Poland's longest river near Korzeniewo, which is about 100 kilometres south of Gdansk. Of the 20,000 soldiers, 15,000 were from Poland, the Polish armed forces said. "We are showing what capabilities we have and we are combining this with the determination to use them," said NATO General Gunnar Brügner. Overcoming a body of wa...
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Some 20,000 soldiers from nine NATO countries were readying on Monday to cross Poland's longest river, the Vistula, as part of a manoeuvre aimed at deterring Russian aggression. The Dragon 24 drill will take place near the town of Korzeniowo, about 100 kilometres south of Gdańsk. About 15,000 of the participating soldiers will come from Poland, according to Warsaw. The crossing of the Vistula with the construction of a pontoon bridge will test the ability of land, sea, air and cyber forces to work together during a major military crisis, the Polish armed forces said. There are increasing warni...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is warning Western countries that Russia could expand its military aggression in Ukraine to other countries. If Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev make threats, then unfortunately he has to believe them, the liberal-conservative politician said in comments carried by broadcaster TVN24 on Sunday. It was necessary to prepare for the fact that Russia could put NATO's security guarantees to the test, Sikorski said. Poland has been a member of the transatlantic defence alliance since 1999. The pro-Russian prime min...
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