A fresh UN convoy was due in Mariupol on Friday to rescue inhabitants from the “bleak hell” of a besieged steel mill, which has become the city’s final pocket of resistance against invading Russian soldiers. The Russian military declared a three-day cease-fire at the location on Thursday, but a Ukrainian general claimed there was still … Read more
WARSAW — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Thursday a new financial program aimed at softening the impact of rising prices on Polish families. The measures, which the government named “Inflation Shield,” include a cut to sales tax on electricity and gas, and a handout to low-income households, ranging from 400 zloty (95 U.S. … Read more
WARSAW: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki unveiled tax cuts for petrol and energy on Thursday, as well as subsidies to the neediest households in a bid to curb rampant inflation. Morawiecki said he hoped the measures would “cushion the effects of inflation” particularly “during the most difficult winter months” when the government expects inflation to … Read more
Poland: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Sunday called the migrant crisis on the Belarusian-Polish border, the EU’s eastern frontier, the “greatest attempt to destabilise Europe” since the Cold War. The premier issued his strong remarks as he prepared to meet with EU leaders at a time when Warsaw is facing not only a border … Read more
WARSAW- Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Tuesday accused Russian leader Vladimir Putin of orchestrating an unprecedented wave of migrants trying to illegally enter Poland from Belarus and threatening to destabilise the European Union. “This attack which Lukashenko is conducting has its mastermind in Moscow, the mastermind is President Putin,” Morawiecki told an emergency session of … Read more
