Slawek Szefs

Poland's decision to send 1,000 troops to Afghanistan as part of a NATO multinational force is seen in Europe as a logical consequence of the country's support for…

Debate about Guenter Grass, the German Nobel Prize laureate in literature, has been raging across Europe - after his recent admission that he was recruited into the Waffen…

Parliament has abolished the institution of the Vetting Court and Public Interest Ombudsman passing supervison over the vetting process to the Institute of National…

For the past several years police statistics in Poland have been registering close to 5,000 suicides annually. What is most alarming is a steady 15% annual rise in…

A controversy over the Polish government's refusal to authorise the merger of Polish branches of two major international banks has escalated into a full blown political…

Radio Racja, a station based in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok, has resumed transmissions in Belarusian targeted at audiences across the border. It was initially…

Central Europe is caught up in the debate over press freedom and religious sensitivities after papers in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Poland re-printed…

Under communism, Poles - who found themselves in the Soviet sphere of influence after the war - were conditioned to view Western states as a constant threat to the…

This week Poland marked the 25th anniversary of the Gdansk shipyard strike where the Solidarity movement was born. There were celebrations around the country and a special…

The Council of Europe, Europe's oldest and largest human rights organisation, was set up in 1949 to promote democracy on the continent. Leaders from its forty-nine nations…