A total of 185 petrol stations in Slovakia and Hungary being taken over by Polish oil and gas company PKN Orlen will change their brand into the Polish one including 79 stations currently branded as Lukoil, Orlen has announced.
The European Commission (EC) has decided to channel EUR 248 million in extraordinary aid to the five countries, including Poland, that have borne the brunt of the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Poland and Slovakia will lobby for Ukraine to be granted prompt candidate status to join the European Union, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, said after meeting with his Slovak counterpart.
A gas interconnector linking Poland and Slovakia will be launched soon, Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has said.
Two Polish F-16 fighter jets will patrol the skies over Slovakia as part of cooperation between the two countries' air forces, Mariusz Błaszczak, the defence minister, said after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart Jaroslav Nad in Bratislava on Friday.
The Polish prime minister singled out Germany and Hungary for criticism over their stance on sanctions.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has accused Russia of threatening energy and food security and causing "gigantic" inflation with its war on Ukraine.
Poland's biggest oil company will take over 25 petrol stations in Slovakia and will become one of the five biggest fuel station operators in that country.
The EC president has expressed gratitude to Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary for admitting children, women and men fleeing Ukraine after Russia's invasion of that country.
The presidents of eight Central and Eastern European countries, including Poland, called on European Union member states to immediately grant Ukraine an EU candidate country status.
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