Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said on Wednesday that thanks to "foresight and the persistent implementation of gas projects" Poland will be independent of Russian gas supplies from the end of April.
The presidents of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have issued a joint declaration condemning Russia's recognition of two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine.
Written by William Joseph Showalter, the 106-year-old article entitled ‘Partitioned Poland’ which was sent to TFN by a reader, provides a unique portrait of life in pre-independence Poland from the perspective of a western observer.
President Andrzej Duda has presented Ukraine with a special edition of the "Crimean Sonnets," a work by Poland's national poet Adam Mickiewicz, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the country's independence.
Opened on 19 November, 1901, the Hotel Bristol has become a place where modernity and heritage meet. TFN’s Alex Webber looks back at its glitzy history.
An Independence March marking Poland's Independence Day (Nov. 11) and the 103rd anniversary of the country's restoration to statehood, set off at 1 pm on Thursday from the centre of Warsaw.
Visitors to the city will not tread far without being confronted by waves of people chomping through approximately one million ‘Rogal świętomarciński’ – a decadent pastry filled with poppy seeds.
Breaking out on June 28, 1956, at the city's Cegielski engineering plant, at that time called the Stalin plant, and were the first mass protests against Poland's post-war communist regime.
Influenced in its style by France’s Palace of Versailles, historians have called Saski Palace “one of the greatest achievements of 18th century Polish urban planning.” A symbol of Independence, the palace was completely destroyed by occupying Germans during WWII.
Up to 71 percent of Polish women consider themselves financially independent while another 40 percent have their own savings, according to new research.
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