When, on a visit to Warsaw in 1970, German Chancellor Willy Brandt suddenly dropped to his knees before the Monument to the Ghetto Uprising, Władysław Gomułka, Poland’s communist leader, whispered, ‘wrong monument’. Gomułka would have …
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The Polish government has provoked yet another international crisis, this time by adopting a law that is ostensibly meant to combat the phrase ‘Polish death camps’. The law targets a geographical shorthand, sometimes used abroad, …
Sea state Attention is back on the South China Sea as China and ASEAN officially announced negotiations on the text of a code of conduct in the disputed waterway. There’s little optimism that the negotiations …
After Brexit, the EU member states made a commitment to unity in their Rome Declaration of March 2017. They also indicated the possibility of creating a ‘two-speed’ or ‘multi-speed’ Europe, with members cooperating in areas …
‘Poland has not yet perished … we shall prevail’—the most prominent lines of Poland’s national anthem—roared from thousands of throats during protests in the central European country in July. They capture well the motivation behind …