EU foreign ministers have decided to fully suspend the 2007 EU-Russia visa facilitation agreement. In practice, this means that the number of new visas will be significantly reduced and the process of obtaining them will take longer.
"Russia's aggression against Ukraine shows that we need more Europe, not less; that is why we should, within the EU, move away from the principle of unanimity and leave it only for the most important decisions," former Belgian Prime Minister, MEP Guy Verhofstadt, said at the Campus – the Future of Poland. That’s the same Verhofstadt, who made favourable gestures towards the Kremlin when he was head of the Belgian government.
The success of researchers from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in the world's most important automatic translation competition. Students and PhD candidates took first places in two translation fields: Ukrainian-Czech and Czech-Ukrainian, leaving behind, among others, translators from Google and Microsoft.
Twelve people were killed in clashes between supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad's so-called Green Zone. The AFP also reported that 22 people were injured.
“Russia and Poland are the most sanctioned by the European Commission,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki admitted today in Paris. In making this claim, the head of government referred to an article by Jan Rokita. The former politician made a shocking juxtaposition, making it clear that the value of the Polish [sanctions] package rather exceeds the Russian one.
In Poland, specifically in the forests of the Koło Forest District, one can admire pyramids older than the Egyptian ones. These are megalithic tombs, created even before the structure of Stonehenge or the pyramids in Egypt. Five of them can be seen in Wietrzychowice, and one in Gaj Stolarski.
“Lately, I have been observing a rash of interviewees on LCI - either Russians, not bad at speaking French or pro-Russian Frenchmen,” Law and Justice MEP Ryszard Czarnecki said. The pro-Russian and at the same time anti-Polish interview was conducted on the air of the French media giant just the day before the visit of the Prime Minister to Paris.
This is the second Volleyball Men's World Championship match in which the Polish national volleyball team played. The Poles phenomenally defeated Mexico at 3:0!
August 28 marks the anniversary of the victory of a prominent sport and military aviator Franciszek Żwirko and an aircraft designer and aviator Stanisław Wigura in the International Tourist Aircraft Competition in 1932, informs the Chancellery of the Prime Minister on Twitter.
The 3rd edition of the Mazovian Startup accelerator program has begun. The program offers support to positive impact startups, i.e., those that combine a social mission with innovative technology. Current recruitment to the program will focus on solutions that help prevent climate change and support the responsible development of the agri-food sector. Submitted projects may include green technologies, sustainable production and cultivation, organic food, responsible production, and reduction of carbon footprint. The executor of the program, financed from the budget of the Mazovian Voivodeship, is Youth Business Poland.
Registration for the 6th PKO Charity Run has begun, which after a three-year break will start on September 24, 2022, in athletics stadiums of 12 Polish cities. The goal of this year's event, organized by the PKO Bank Polski Foundation as part of the "Let's Run Together" campaign, is to support psychological and psychiatric care in orphanages and childcare centres.
Poles defeated Bulgaria in Katowice. They did not allow them to score more than 20 points in a set. Lots of emotions, beautiful aces, and amazing actions. What a match!
Wanda Szajowska was the oldest Polish woman for a week. Poland’s Prime Minister said goodbye to the late Wanda Szajowska on Facebook. The oldest Polish woman, and possibly the oldest pianist in the world, has died at the age of 111.
Grape pickers in France were toiling under a blistering sun this week, earlier in the season than usual, as climate change forces the makers of Champagne to change when they harvest, and possibly eventually how they make the coveted bubbly.
Yesterday’s Independence Day saw a total of 189 air raid warnings sounded across Ukraine, the highest daily total since the beginning of the Russian invasion. 58 towns were fired upon and Czaplino, a town in the Dnipropetrovsk region, was attacked twice. Missiles fell on the railway station and private homes. 25 people were killed and 31 people were injured.
Rachel Zegler, the 22-year-old American actress and singer of Polish descent, has been making waves in the entertainment industry with her talent and versatility.
