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By Rhod Mackenzie

One of the most striking political phenomena of 2025 in Poland is the growing popularity of forces advocating for the  improvement of  relations with Russia. To whom exactly does this development pertain, and what is the reason for its direct relevance to Poles' fatigue with the...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Dmitry Kasatkin, Russia's Chargé d'Affaires in Riga, has started that the dismantling of the railway that links the ports of Latvia to Russia to the rail system across Russia to Central Asia and to China  is going to would have a seriously negative impact on Latvia's commericial...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The authorities in Poland are implementing stricter measures in relation to welfare and other benefits paid to so called refugees from Ukraine . Rhod Mackenzie looks at how previousy Poland , the country did make some cuts to benefits for so called displaced persons, but now ther...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Recently in the news we had the EU claiming that Russia would have to pay reparations to the Ukraine over the conflict there,then at a meeting in Germany between the Chancellor Alexander Metz and the Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk the Polish PM demanded reparations from German...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The era of mass immigration to Britain of the  'Polish Plumber' has ended and now they are leaving en masse. Rhod Mackenzie looks at how the Poles who once flocked to Britain are leaving in droves citing high crime levels,ridiculous levels of taxation, out of control inflation an...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Don't Mention The War

German Humour Is No Laughing Matter As Tusk Spars with Metz

There has been a rift in relations between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The talks in the German capital were intended to address current NATO issues.Rh...