Poles finished communism and the UK profited. He should not forget this.' Lech Walesa, the first democratically elected president of post-communist Poland, has criticised David Cameron for acting "irrationally and shortsightedly" over immigration from eastern Europe. In the most high-profile attack on the prime minister by an east European politician, the Nobel prize winner who led the Solidarity trade...
s more worrying is that fatal cases have been rising steadily in the past few years. Between 1999 and 2008 there were 42 football-related deaths, but in 2012 the number reached 29 for a single year. It is important to understand that the vast majority of those cases occurred outside stadiums and that the experience of watching a football match in Brazil has improved significantly in terms of safety...
time the World Cup will land in the home of joga bonito clad in a Fifa-approved wrapping of sun, sea and samba. But the dark side of the beautiful game in Brazil was in evidence earlier this month, when images of running battles between fans of Atlético Paranaense and Vasco da Gama shocked the watching world. The game was being held at a neutral ground in Joinville due to previous clashes between...
Hurricane-force Xaver struck northern Europe on Thursday night, killing six people and causing damage and transport disruption across Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and southern Sweden ...
s session. The military base at Stare Kiejkuty, north of Warsaw, it was revealed, had previously been used by German intelligence and later the Soviet army during the second world war. One of the men, it was alleged, was subjected to mock executions while hooded and otherwise naked. Abd al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al-Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent, and Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn,...
s contribution to the EU, there is little enthusiasm among our partners, and little to suggest they will go out of their way to keep us in. Just 9% of Germans and 15% of French people think the UK is a positive influence on the EU, with more Poles, 33%, taking that view. Only 16% of Germans and 26% of French people back the idea of a special deal being struck for the UK. Cameron has said he intends...
s reputation as the club's most awkward and unhappy member was underlined yet again. It is also the clear lesson from a landmark four-nation poll of attitudes to Europe carried out by Opinium in the UK, Germany, France and Poland and published by the Observer . The survey shows not only that British people regard the EU much more negatively than do citizens of other countries, but also that the citizens...
s climate chief, Connie Hedegaard, expressed frustration with the failure to agree a timetable on emissions cuts, and with attempts by a small number of developing countries to opt out of the proposal. In a dramatic intervention late on Friday, Venezuela's head of delegation, representing a group of "like-minded countries" including China, India, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, accused the EU of "damaging...
News and analysis from the UN climate negotiations in Poland, which are entering their final stage as nearly 200 countries work towards a deal on global warming Adam Vaughan ...
minds is the lesson of disastrous Copenhagen talks in 2009 , when many of the crucial negotiations over targets, financing for poor countries and other crucial points were settled late, leaving too little negotiating time to forge a treaty. If the national targets are not set in good time, Paris could be yet another failure in the 20-year process, and the future of the UN talks would be in doubt....
s climate conference in Warsaw , a city steeped in history. Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous Polish astronomer who first posited that the Earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa, is celebrated here. The Frederic Chopin Airport is named for the brilliant composer who lived here. The pioneer in the science of radiation, Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (she won two of them),...
t know where he was, and his English was poor. He was also worried that his daughter would think he was a fool to make such a life-changing, but ill-informed, decision. Piotr said he regularly worked up to 60 hours a week at the factory. He had to give half of his wages to his bosses and, although he was taken to various banks to open accounts, he never saw the bank cards. Escape was proving impossible....