Poland's lower-house Speaker Szymon Hołownia has embarked on a two-day visit to neighbouring Lithuania, aiming to discuss bilateral ties and regional security in the face of Russia's war in Ukraine. Szymon Hołownia.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka During the visit, his first official trip abroad, Hołownia plans to hold talks with officials including Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė and parliamentary Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen. Speaking to reporters before the trip, Hołownia

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This comes after Polish President Andrzej Duda's Friday interview for Kanal Zero youtube channel, where he made a surprising remark on Crimea that echoed nationally and around the world in the following hours and days. Burza po słowach prezydenta nt. Krymu. Teraz odpowiadaPAP/Piotr Nowak; twitter.com/@AndrzejDuda During the interview, Duda called Crimea "special for historical reasons", claiming that

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Poland's top diplomat Radosław Sikorski has postponed his visit to the United States, where he was due to travel next week, according to the foreign ministry in Warsaw. Radosław Sikorski. Photo: PAP/Albert Zawada "Due to the urgent duties of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his absence in Washington, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski's visit, scheduled for February 6-11, has been postponed," the

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Polish farmers plan to start a protest next Friday by blocking the country's border crossings with Ukraine, Poland's Solidarity trade union has announced. Photo:PAP/Darek Delmanowicz The protest comes amid a wave of similar demonstrations across Europe, it said. Farmers in France, Belgium, Portugal, Greece and Germany have been protesting against EU measures to tackle climate change as well as rising costs and unfair competition from abroad, the Reuters news agency reported. Polish farmers have voiced

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The Polish government has signed an agreement with transport companies protesting at the border with Ukraine, under which the truckers will suspend their blockade until March, pending implementation of solutions to the standoff.    Photo:PAP/Wojtek Jargiło Poland's Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak announced the deal at a news conference in Warsaw on Tuesday. He said Polish hauliers had agreed

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Poland’s new government plans to dismantle the Polish state and reduce it to merely "a territory of Poles," while, together with the EU, enacting a "great robbery of Poles," Polish conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński has claimed. Jarosław Kaczyński at the protest in Warsaw on Thursday.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka Speaking at the Free Poles Protest in Warsaw on Thursday,

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