LITHUANIA TO BUILD FENCE ALONG KALININGRAD BORDER, FEARFUL OF RUSSIAN 'LITTLE GREEN MEN'

Kaliningrad, on the Baltic Sea, is the only Russian territory bordering Lithuania, whose eastern neighbor is Belarus... READ MORE›

'TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO CALL MERKEL'S IMMIGRATION POLICY 'CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE''

In a recent interview with the British media, President-elect Donald Trump triggered a backlash from Europe after called the EU's migration policy catastrophic... READ MORE›

EU NEEDS NO ADVICE FROM OUTSIDERS

French President Francois Hollande responded to US President-elect Donald Trump's criticism of the European Union... READ MORE›

POLISH LEADERS HAIL ARRIVAL OF U.S. TROOPS

We waited for decades' Polish leaders hail arrival of U.S. troops... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS SET UP BASE IN POLAND, DRAWING SHARP REBUKE FROM RUSSIA

Poland and the Baltic states also feel threatened by Russia's recent deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, the Russian territory wedged between Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR? LARGEST US MILITARY REINFORCEMENT IN DECADES IN EUROPE, MORE THAN 3,000 US SOLDIERS TO BE STATIONED IN POLAND

As the geopolitical situation between the Baltic States and Russia remains on the edge, NATO in November explained its decision to put 300,000 troops on alert... READ MORE›

US TANKS AND TROOPS IN POLAND A THREAT, RUSSIA SAYS

The troops are part of President Barack Obama's response to reassure Nato allies concerned about a more aggressive Russia... READ MORE›

EUROPE PREPARES FOR WAR: RUSSIA WARNS POLAND IT'S CLOSELY WATCHING WARSAW'S MILITARY PURCHASES FROM US

Moscow was closely monitoring Warsaw's plans to buy missiles from the U.S., said Russian Ambassador to NATO Alexander Grushko said... READ MORE›

MONUMENT TO POLISH WWII MASSACRE VICTIMS DESECRATED WITH FASCIST SYMBOLS IN UKRAINE (VIDEO)

According to the document, massacres of more than 100,000 citizens, mostly peasants, were committed by OUN-UPA Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Ukrainian Insurgent Army in 1943-1945... READ MORE›

SEVERE SNOW STORMS WREAK HAVOC ACROSS CENTRAL EUROPE

At least 25 people have been killed in central Europe as a result of severe frost and snow storms... READ MORE›

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN, SOCIOLOGIST WHO WROTE IDENTITY IN THE MODERN WORLD, DIES AT 91

In informing friends in Poland of the death, Dr. Bauman's wife wrote that he had gone to liquid eternity... READ MORE›

'NOT ENOUGH AMERICANS PROTESTING NATO EASTWARD EXPANSION'

RT How long will Washington's aggressive behavior continue against Russia?... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 9 DEAD AFTER BLIZZARDS ICY WEATHER GRIP PARTS OF EUROPE

Three people died from hypothermia, while two more died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by malfunctioning heaters, the government Security Center said... READ MORE›

CHINA BEGINS FIRST FREIGHT TRAIN SERVICE TO LONDON

The train will travel for 18 days over more than 12,000 kilometers to reach Britain from China, Xinhua said... READ MORE›

DENNIS OLAND'S NEW MURDER TRIAL DATE COULD BE SET TODAY

It's unclear whether Dennis Oland, 48, who is free on bail, will attend today's proceedings at the Court of Queen's Bench in Saint John... READ MORE›

'YOU NEEDN'T BE RACIST TO SAY THAT WESTERN EUROPE'S MIGRANT POLICY IS FAILING'

President of Poland Andrzej Duda attended the funeral, and it was very high profile occasion... READ MORE›

POLES BID FAREWELL TO TRUCK DRIVER KILLED IN BERLIN ATTACK

Hundreds of mourners have bid farewell to the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack... READ MORE›

POLAND SECURES BARGAIN DEAL FOR LEONARDO DA VINCI AND OTHER WORKS

The Polish government has bought a world-famous art collection, including a rare Leonardo da Vinci painting, for a fraction of its market value... READ MORE›

FREXIT: LE PEN PROMISES TO TAKE FRANCE OUT OF EU & NATO

Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front and a candidate for the 2017 presidential elections, is known for her Euroscepticism and anti-immigrant views... READ MORE›

EU SUMMIT: RUSSIA SANCTIONS TO STAY, DUTCH UKRAINE DEAL

EU leaders have agreed to extend sanctions against Russia over Ukraine for a further six months... READ MORE›

IN POLAND, A WINDOW ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN POPULISTS COME TO POWER

The people support us, boasted Adam Bielan, Law and Justice's deputy speaker of the Senate... READ MORE›

POLAND'S PRESIDENT MEETS OPPOSITION LEADERS ON THIRD DAY OF UNREST

European Council President Donald Tusk, Poland's former prime minister, appealed on Saturday for the ruling party to respect the people and the constitution... READ MORE›

'NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT MEDIA'

In the biggest parliamentary crisis in years, opposition politicians protested that plan on Friday, blocking a vote on the state budget... READ MORE›

POLISH OPPOSITION LEADERS CALL FOR ADDITIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS

Despite being ousted, the protesters vowed to remain at the gates of Parliament... READ MORE›

US TO SHIP 1,600 TANKS TO DUTCH ARMS DEPOT IN 'CLEAR MESSAGE' TO RUSSIA

Russian officials, meanwhile, have consistently warned that aggressive NATO maneuvers near Russian territory could undermine regional security... READ MORE›

CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT

Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... READ MORE›

UNHAPPY RUSSIANS NOSTALGIC FOR SOVIET-STYLE RULE - STUDY

Former states under Soviet Union from Estonia to Mongolia also covered by findings that 'happiness gap' between eastern and western Europe persists... READ MORE›

RUSSIA, PUTIN TESTING DONALD TRUMP ON NATO? US TROOPS TO HEAD TO EASTERN EUROPE IN JANUARY RUSSIA

Missile and troop buildup is expected along NATO's eastern border next year, ushering in the president-elect's first foreign policy test... READ MORE›

Despite concerns about the economy, Europe's 52 million affluent consumers continue to spend their money... READ MORE›

LIKE TRUMP EUROPES POPULISTS WIN BIG WITH RURAL VOTERS

Like Trump, Europea??s Populists Win Big With Rural Voters... READ MORE›

THOUSANDS OF WOMEN ACROSS POLAND REFUSE TO WORK IN ALL-OUT STRIKE AGAINST ABORTION BAN

Thousands of Polish women dressed in black have boycotted work and taken to the streets in protest against a plan to ban abortions... READ MORE›

ALMOST SIX MILLION SET TO TAKE PART IN ALL-OUT STRIKE AGAINST POLISH ABORTION BAN

In June of last year, activists used drones to fly abortion pills into Poland in a show of solidarity with local women... READ MORE›

RUSSIA DEPLOYS NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES IN KALININGRAD

Russia deploys nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad region, bordering Poland and Lithuania... READ MORE›

POLISH WOMEN GO ON NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST PROPOSED ABORTION BAN

LONDON -- Women all over Poland went on strike Monday to protest the government's plans for a total ban on abortions... READ MORE›

POLISH WOMEN HOLD NATION-WIDE STRIKE AGAINST ABORTION BAN

Poland's influential Catholic Church gave the initiative its seal of approval earlier this year, though its bishops have since opposed jailing women... READ MORE›

WOLVES RETURN TO POLAND MORE THAN 50 YEARS AFTER BEING WIPED OUT

Poland's communist regime organised a vast wolf cull in the 60s in response to their perceived danger, paying residents for every animal shot dead... READ MORE›

EASTERN BLOCS RESISTANCE TO REFUGEES HIGHLIGHTS EUROPES CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DIVISIONS

Poland's new president Andrzej Duda has complained about dictates from the European Union to accept migrants flowing onto the Continent from the Middle East and Africa... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'

The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... READ MORE›

OBAMA SLAMMED POLISH DEMOCRACY ON FRIDAY. HERE'S HOW POLISH TV PROVED HIM RIGHT.

Poland's main public TV channel delivered a message at odds with Obama's actual words... READ MORE›

GUARDIAN.CO.UK EGYPTIAN COURT SENTENCES 183 MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SUPPORTERS TO DEATH 1 HR AGO

Museum officials determined that a fund of 120 million euros, about 136 million, was needed to pay for this new wave of work and future efforts... READ MORE›

'WITH TRUMP'S WIN WE MIGHT'VE DODGED NUCLEAR BULLET'

RT Donald Trump wants NATO members to pay their way and even suggested he doesn't mind the alliance breaking up... READ MORE›

EU FLAG BURNED AS TENS OF THOUSANDS JOIN WARSAW NATIONALIST DEMO

Organisers said that up to 50,000 were on the march which marked the anniversary of poland's independence after the second world war... READ MORE›

DENNIS OLAND GETS NEW 2ND-DEGREE MURDER TRIAL, AS APPEAL COURT CITES JUDGE'S ERROR

Dennis Oland to get new trial, as appeal court says judge erred in instructions to jury... READ MORE›

EMPATHY AND ANGST IN A GERMAN CITY TRANSFORMED BY REFUGEES

ERFURT, Germany -- The mood in the school gymnasium was turning... READ MORE›

CZECH REPUBLIC CLAIMS PROPAGANDA WAR BY RUSSIA AND SETS UP COUNTER-EFFORT

The Czech Republic has stuck to the common European Union stance towards Russia... READ MORE›

HERMAN VAN ROMPUY WILL BE PAID MORE THAN ?500,000 BY THE EU TO DO NOTHING

Generous golden goodbye and pension means the retired former eu president will earn 578 000 over the next three years... READ MORE›

POLAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER PROPOSES FORMING ARMY OUT OF THE SYRIAN MEN ARRIVING IN EUROPE

"If there are hundreds of thousands of young Syrians coming to Europe then we can create an army," said Mr Waszczykowski ..... READ MORE›

RUSSIA MOVES NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES TO NATO DOORSTEP

Lithuania and Poland have expressed concerns as Russia confirmed the deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander missiles into its Kaliningrad outpost that borders the two NATO members... READ MORE›

POLAND STEELS FOR BATTLE SEEING ECHOES OF COLD WAR IN UKRAINE CRISIS

At a recent party of fellow academics, he said, one retired military officer announced that he would organize a local militia if the Russians invaded... READ MORE›

RUSSIA WARNS DENMARK ITS WARSHIPS COULD BECOME NUCLEAR TARGETS

Germany, Poland, Lithuania, the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Denmark all border the Baltic Sea... READ MORE›

'A STUDIO IN CENTRAL WARSAW BEATS AN EAST LONDON FLATSHARE'

A studio in the very centre of Warsaw wins over a flatshare in east London - one of many things in favour of Poland, she says... READ MORE›

RUSSIA TRANSFERS NUCLEAR-CAPABLE MISSILES TO KALININGRAD

Lithuania, which neighbours Kaliningrad and is a member of Nato, said it would protest against the move... READ MORE›

"For Ulrich Beck, the construction of Europe was important as a stage toward the kind of tempered globalization he advocated," the French daily Le Monde wrote in a weekend obituary... READ MORE›

POLAND REFUSES TO ACCEPT REFUGEES AFTER BRUSSELS ATTACK

Physical abuse of Poland's barely visible refugees has also been reported... READ MORE›

MILLIONS OF POLISH WOMEN GO ON STRIKE AGAINST PROPOSED ABORTION BAN

Poland introduced a restrictive abortion law, known as the abortion compromise and championed by the Roman Catholic Church, in 1993 after the collapse of Communism... READ MORE›

ONCE A POLITICAL MODEL POLAND LURCHES TO RIGHT

Law and Justice supported Poland's accession to the European Union, said Konrad Szymanski, the new government Minister for European Affairs... READ MORE›

HUNGARIAN LEADER REBUKED FOR SAYING MUSLIM MIGRANTS MUST BE BLOCKED TO KEEP EUROPE CHRISTIAN

Eliot in 1933, another moment in history when Europeans expressed fears of being overwhelmed by a flood of non-Christian immigrants... READ MORE›

NATO COUNTRIES BEGIN LARGEST WAR GAME IN EASTERN EUROPE SINCE COLD WAR

It represents the biggest movement of foreign allied troops in Poland in peace time... READ MORE›

WORLD'S DEEPEST UNDERWATER CAVE FOUND IN CZECH REPUBLIC

Team led by Polish diver Krzysztof Starnawski says 404m Hranice abyss may be even deeper after test using robot... READ MORE›

AN AMERICAN MILITARY CONVOY IN EUROPE AIMS TO REASSURE ALLIES

And so, a nylon canopy was set up over a lectern beside a display of Polish, American and European Union flags in Drawsko Pomorskie, a town of 12,000 in northwest Poland... READ MORE›

MOST AMERICANS BELIEVE WARMING IS REAL, BACK CLIMATE PACT, DON'T WANT 'IDEOLOGY' TO TRUMP GOALS

And ministers met on Wednesday to discuss the hot-button issue of finance for staving off dangerous climate change... READ MORE›

IRAQ REJECTS FEARS OF SHI'ITE REVENGE ATTACKS IN MOSUL

Iraq's foreign minister dismissed fears about possible revenge attacks from elements within coalition forces... READ MORE›

A NEW TYPE OF POLITICS COULD HELP PREVENT CLIMATE DISASTER

Post-Brexit we can expect little of the UK government on sufficient and clear climate action... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP INSISTS CLIMATE CHANGE IS A 'HOAX'... BUT ARGUES SEA WALL NEEDED TO PROTECT DOONBEG FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

The Pentagon describes climate change as an urgent and growing threat to our national security ... READ MORE›

GERMANY CONDEMNS HOLOCAUST CARTOON CONTEST IN IRAN

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CLIMATE CHANGE THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH WORSE THAN POLIO, WHITE HOUSE WARNS

Every American is vulnerable to the health impacts associated with climate change, John Holdren, the White House science adviser, told reporters on Monday... READ MORE›

ASSAD REGIME ACCUSED OF TRYING TO DISRUPT NEW SYRIA PEACE TALKS

Assad regime accused of trying to disrupt new Syria peace talks... READ MORE›

195 NATIONS SEAL HISTORIC CLIMATE PACT

The burning of those fossil fuels releases invisible greenhouse gases, which cause the planet to warm and change Earth's delicate climate system... READ MORE›

WORLD CLIMATE RALLIES AND PROTESTS

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PARIS CLIMATE DEAL A??EXTREMELY CLOSEA?? BUT TALKS SET TO OVERRUN

But she said she was confident countries would eventually arrive at an agreement strong enough to avoid dangerous climate change... READ MORE›

STICKING POINTS REMAIN AS PARIS CLIMATE TALKS HIT FINAL STRETCH

Secretary of State John Kerry, in Paris on Wednesday to boost the climate talks, promised 400 million in new funding... READ MORE›

FROM BANGLADESH FLOOD MAP TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND, A 'CARBON BUBBLE' IS BORN

I was offended that the markets weren't picking up the risks, given what we knew about coal and climate change, Campanale recalls... READ MORE›