Since 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and refugees from non-European [...]Read the full article
“Even before the outbreak of the war we had issues with illegal employment and even cases of forced labour. Now given the scale of the crisis, we have a lot of concerns.”Read the full article
Poland has closed two-thirds of its mines over the last 30 years, reducing the number of jobs in the sector from 300,000 to 80,000. The energy transition raises both hopes and fears. While miners understand the need for change, they fear for their future and the future of their [...]Read the full article
In Europe, growing awareness of the social inequalities in exposure to air pollution is as yet to be translated into public policy, despite the work being done by scientists and citizens to analyse and raise consciousness about the impact on the most exposed [...]Read the full article
Within days, countries bordering Ukraine had to organise large-scale humanitarian support systems to help people fleeing the Russian army’s attacks. But in Poland, Moldova and Romania, it is becoming clear that the reception of refugees will have to be a long-term [...]Read the full article
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the many obstacles in accessing a safe abortion in Poland, Romania, and to a lesser extent, Hungary, either because of prohibitive laws and/or because of conservative political and religious [...]Read the full article
With the work of human rights organisations regularly obstructed, with independent media under fire, and the courts filled with PiS loyalists, the ruling party has launched an ugly, multi-pronged culture war on Poland’s LGBTI community, in a bid to further polarise a divided society and [...]Read the full article
With record low-unemployment rates and millions of Polish people of working age living and working elsewhere, an estimated 1.5 million migrant workers are needed by 2025 to power the country’s economic growth.Read the full article
Imke van Gardingen:“This is an interesting case to follow, and it could open the door of justice for other labourers who are being exploited for the benefit of end-users at the top of the supply chain.”Read the full article
On 14 June, the women of Argentina made history: the lower house of Congress passed a bill to decriminalise abortion. Macri’s decision to process the bill is a testament to the strength of the feminist movement in Argentina. But it is not only in this Latin American country that feminist [...]Read the full article
In this interview with Equal Times, the former Polish president calls for ‘positive globalisation’ and a change of attitude from the United States, as well as sharing his views on homosexuality, freedom of expression and the accusations of spying that he [...]Read the full article
“Every time I think of it, I am so, so grateful to Law and Justice and to Chairman Kaczyński, really. If it had not been for all they had done, there would have never been such an acceleration, such a rapid joining of forces among women’s movements, civic [...]Read the full article
Patriotism is currently being reasserted as the highest value in Poland. The government is, moreover, coupling national identity with religion, and Christian values dominate the Army. The discourse that has been present in military circles for years is starting to bear [...]Read the full article
Opponents contend that what the government calls “indispensable sanitary loggings” are a cover-up for the commercial logging of old trees, not only of spruces.Read the full article
Mogens Blicher Bjerregård :It is high time for the EU to show leadership. If not, Europe’s media will be on a slippery slope and so will our democracies, and the credibility of the EURead the full article
Imke van Gardingen:
