Contents tagged with Poland

  • Polish Ministry of Development funds project to support Ukrainian businesses

    The Polish Ministry of Development is funding a project in Kiev to support small and medium businesses in Ukraine,  Radio Polsha reported.

    “The project, which aims to improve the attractiveness of Ukraine’s investments and competitiveness in the regions, funded under Polish development aid from the Polish Ministry of Development, has begun,” a statement issued by the Ministry read.

    The Polish Ministry has allocated €800,000 for the program.

    The project provides training and advice on …

  • Poland will consider increasing the number of NATO troops in the country if Russia does not change its position

    If Russia's position does not change, the number of NATO forces near the eastern flank of the Alliance may increase as was stated by the head of the National Security Bureau of Poland, Paul Solokh, Radio Poland reports.

    "We expect that at the summit in Warsaw, the decision to increase the presence of NATO forces will not be final. These forces can be increased if the Russian position does not change," Paul Solokh said.

    At the same time, he stressed that the process of preparation for the NATO …

  • Reconstruction of Smolensk plane crash to be presented in Poland

    The Commission responsible for investigating the Smolensk catastrophe will, in the near future, present a reconstruction of the last seconds of the plane crash which killed the former Polish president and others on the 10th of April 2010.

    Radio Poland reported that this was said by the country’s Minister of National Defense, Antoni Macierewicz.

    “I think that we will soon be presented with new or well-formulated information. The reconstruction of these events is made possible by the colossal …

  • Polish soldiers arrive in Estonia

    On Thursday, an infantry company from the Armed Forces of Poland arrived in Estonia, as reported by Postimees, citing a statement released by the headquarters of the Estonian Defense Forces.

    The 5th Company of the 7th Motorized Battalion of the 17th Motorized Infantry Brigade will stay in Estonia until July 31 to develop cooperation with Estonian soldiers and other allies in Estonia.

    The company, reinforced by armored personnel carriers, is made up of nearly 150 servicemen. Polish soldiers …

  • Ukraine to supply missiles for Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft

    The Ukrainian state owned enterprise SpetsTechnoExport will supply the MiG-29 fighter jets of  the Polish Armed Forces with the medium range air-to-air missiles Р-27Р1.

    The tender of the Polish army has been won by a consortium of Ukrainian SpetsTechnoExport and Polish WB Electronics. The information was published on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Air Force.

     “In October last year, Polish military announced a tender for purchase of 40 air-to-air missiles with the range of 50-80 kilometers …

  • Polish President calls on NATO to adhere to an open door policy with regard to Ukraine

    Reuters reports that at a joint press conference with Slovakian President Andrej Kiska, Polish President Andrzej Duda maintained that NATO must keep its doors open to countries of strategic importance such as Ukraine.

    "NATO must maintain an open door policy, especially with regard to the countries that are strategic in terms of their nature and location," he said. "The Alliance also must always be ready to help countries that have been attacked in violation of international law.”

    The next …

  • Polish media: French-German superpower will replace the European Union

    Polish State Channel TVP has claimed that Germany and France have grandiose aspirations. Both nations are allegedly attempting to create a new European superpower to rival the European Union. Polish journalists based their allegations on a document prepared by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Germany and France, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Jean-Marc Ayrault, respectively.

    The project should be presented at the meeting of the heads of diplomacy of the Visegrad Four countries, the Czech …

  • Representatives of the Verkhovna Rada and the Polish Sejm anticipate inter-regional cooperation

    The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andriy Parubiy, and the Speaker of the Polish Sejm, Marek Kuchciński, foresee serious prospects of increasing cooperation between countries of the Carpathian region when it comes to economics, transit and security issues.

    “We have discussed the issue of inter-regional cooperation. We have developed a shared understanding where we see great prospects of increasing inter-regional cooperation,” Parubiy stated after bilateral meeting with Kuchciński during a …

  • Poland wants to establish Assembly including the Visegrad Four, Romania and Ukraine

    The Marshall of the Sejm of Poland, Marek Kuchciński, said in Truskavets that at the Economic Forum in Krynica-Zdrój (Poland), Polish representatives plan to propose the establishment of an Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Visegrad Four countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) and two neighboring countries of the Carpathian region - Romania and Ukraine,” as reported by Interfax-Ukraine.

    "We want to offer our colleagues from the Czech Republic and Hungary to establish a joint …

  • Poland: Brexit could simplify Ukraine's path to the EU

    The UK’s decision to withdraw from the European Union (EU) will force the European institutions to change how they function. This may then simplify the process for Ukraine to integrate with Europe. This was stated by the Marshal of the Polish, Sejm Marek Kuchciński, at a briefing in Truskavets in the Lviv region on the 26th of June.

    “If we are discussing the future, especially Europe’s future with regard to the decision of the UK, then I believe that this is an opportunity to necessitate …