Up to 300 flights over Polish airspace may have to be rerouted and many flights to and from Poland cancelled if an ongoing dispute between air traffic controllers and aviation authorities is not resolved soon, the Eurocontrol agency told PAP on Friday.
The opening of an honorary consulate of the Russian Federation is planned in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. According to the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), the Red-Red coalition of the SPD and the Left has already put forward a candidate for the post of Honorary Consul. Roland Methling, former mayor of Rostock, was a non-party and member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany until 1989. Methling has been associated for years with a lobby that seeks to establish an exemplary relationship between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Russia. Is it outrageous to set up an honorary consulate of Russia in the face of the war in the East, isn't it? It probably is. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, however, escapes this kind of dilemma. For years, this Land, the first country in which politicians of the former system came to power after German reunification, has maintained a unique relationship with Moscow, which today is defined mainly by the success or failure of the Nord Stream 2 project.
Take-offs and landings at Warsaw Chopin Airport have been temporarily suspended owing to a bomb threat, the airport spokesperson told PAP on Thursday evening.
At least one more explosion has rocked the Pniowek coal mine in southern Poland, injuring rescuers trying to free miners trapped by suspected methane blasts early on Wednesday morning, the State Mining Authority (WUG) reported on Thursday evening.
Nearly 77,000 Ukrainian nationals have found employment in Poland since February 24, when Russia invaded their country, data from the Family and Labour Ministry shows.
Poland's prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has said there are “striking" similarities between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the 1938 Munich agreement, which sacrificed Czechoslovakia to appease Hitler and paved the way for German aggression the following year.
Hoteliers in Poland's southern mountain resort of Zakopane want to relocate Ukrainian refugees from their properties to make way for tourists, complaining they are not being supported by local authorities.
Failure to reach an agreement between the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency (PAZP) and air traffic control unionists, by Friday, may result in large-scale flight cancellations, an aviation official said on Thursday.
Poland and the US will work towards making the Polish army one of the best in Europe, the Pentagon said on Wednesday after talks between the Polish and US defence ministers.
Nearly 900 Ukrainian child cancer patients have come to Poland to continue their treatment in the country or be transferred abroad since the start of the war in Ukraine.
A social media account belonging to an advisor to the Polish president was hacked and untrue information was posted on it, a national security chief has announced on Twitter.
Since February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, 2.86 million people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland, the Border Guard (SG) tweeted on Wednesday morning.
Poland, along with several other countries, supports Ukraine's defence capabilities against the increasing Russian aggression by delivering weapons to the country, a Polish government spokesperson has said.
The new coach of the Polish national volleyball team surprised us with the first appointment of the players. Nikola Grbić did not find a place for the setter Fabian Drzyzga. 32-year-old Asseco Resovia Rzeszów player admitted in an interview with TVP Sport that the Serbian’s decision was a shock to him.
“The Yemeni, who a few days ago was abused by a group of activists for further attacks on the Polish authorities and the Border Guard, sought contact with the border group in order to find an easy way for him and his companions to enter the territory of the Republic of Poland illegally,” Stanislaw Żaryn, Spokesperson of the Minister-Special Services Coordinator said.
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.
