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Exclusive: Poland sees new influx of refugees arriving from western Europe<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//04//euronews-exclusive-state-tribunal-for-polands-former-pm-and-members-of-his-government/">Euronews exclusive: State tribunal for Poland's former PM and members of his government?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>An investment in the future<\/h2>\n<p>The project is key to strengthening Poland's energy self-reliance and reducing CO2 emissions. Deputy Minister of Energy and Government Plenipotentiary for Strategic Energy Infrastructure, Wojciech Wrochna, said that the construction of the nuclear power plant is a step that will provide long-term benefits for the entire energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is important that energy from a nuclear power plant gives security, grid stability and that it is clean energy. All these elements are taken into account in the Commission's decision,\" he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\"The power plant will operate at a very high load and will do so at a relatively low cost.\" <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//87//77//808x539_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg/" alt=\"Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, 19 November, 2019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/384x256_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/640x427_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/750x500_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/828x552_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/1080x720_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/1200x800_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/1920x1280_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, 19 November, 2019<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>A choice that is good for the environment<\/h3>\n<p>As Professor Miko\u0142aj Oettingen of the Department of Energy and Fuels at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow said in an interview with Euronews, Poland was already considering the construction of an NPP 15 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The implementation process has been accelerated recently, as the right economic and political conditions have emerged and decision-makers have recognised the urgent need to include nuclear power in the national energy mix.<\/p>\n<p>\"Nuclear power is a zero-carbon energy source that is essential for the stable operation of the electricity system. It does not emit carbon dioxide and its implementation will allow replacing long-expired coal-fired power plants, thus reducing CO2 emissions and supporting the achievement of climate goals,\" Oettingen said.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that nuclear power plants are the most efficient energy generators, independent of weather conditions. Implementing nuclear power in Poland will therefore provide a stable source of baseload energy that can operate for another 60-80 years.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765389401,"updatedAt":1765447155,"publishedAt":1765431000,"firstPublishedAt":1765431000,"lastPublishedAt":1765431007,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5bb92378-2571-539b-be02-72c2ffa9a965-9578777.jpg","altText":"Visualisation of the first nuclear power plant in Poland","caption":"Visualisation of the first nuclear power plant in Poland","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"\u0179r\u00f3d\u0142o: Polskie Elektrownie J\u0105drowe\/ materia\u0142y prasowe","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1909,"height":1074},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_75a431a1-d7f0-5de8-bca1-8ef4f7519655-9578777.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, 19 November, 2019","caption":"Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, 19 November, 2019","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/87\/77\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9f4e5c68-1a02-5908-9a74-20d925f4e544-9578777.jpg","altText":"Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends a press conference in Berlin, 1 December, 2025","caption":"Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk attends a press conference in Berlin, 1 December, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3532,"urlSafeValue":"agata.todorow@ext.euronews.com","title":"Agata Todorow","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":216,"slug":"nuclear-energy","urlSafeValue":"nuclear-energy","title":"Nuclear Energy","titleRaw":"Nuclear Energy"},{"id":230,"slug":"poland","urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","titleRaw":"Poland"},{"id":24324,"slug":"carbon-emissions","urlSafeValue":"carbon-emissions","title":"carbon emissions","titleRaw":"carbon emissions"},{"id":25900,"slug":"electricity","urlSafeValue":"electricity","title":"electricity","titleRaw":"electricity"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":2},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2853676}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"},{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":230,"urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","url":"\/news\/europe\/poland"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":{"id":1,"slug":"deepl","isActive":1},"localisation":{"producerLanguage":"pl","storyId":9577080,"online":1},"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":1,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/12\/11\/european-commission-gives-green-light-to-construction-of-first-nuclear-power-plant-in-pola","lastModified":1765431007},{"id":2852241,"cid":9573171,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"CUBE - POLAND AND GERMANY","daletPyramidId":3516585,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Did Tusk say that Poland will pay for Germany's World War II crimes?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Did Donald Tusk say Poland will pay for Germany's WWII crimes?","titleListing2":"Did Tusk say that Poland will pay for Germany's World War II crimes?","leadin":"Viral claims online have misrepresented Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's remark that Warsaw would pay for the Polish victims of WWII, and not Germany, amidst an ongoing reparations debate with Berlin.","summary":"Viral claims online have misrepresented Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's remark that Warsaw would pay for the Polish victims of WWII, and not Germany, amidst an ongoing reparations debate with Berlin.","keySentence":"","url":"did-tusk-say-that-poland-will-pay-for-germanys-world-war-ii-crimes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/12\/08\/did-tusk-say-that-poland-will-pay-for-germanys-world-war-ii-crimes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A series of recent posts on Facebook and X have accused Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk of agreeing that \"Poland will pay for the Germans\", following high-level talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that touched on the long-standing issue of World War II reparations.\u00a0\n\nThe phrase appeared in dozens of posts across platforms and became the dominant narrative in online discussions, according to a report by Res Futura, a Polish NGO specialising in information security.\u00a0\n\nA review of what Tusk actually said in the press conference suggests that several of the claims circulating about him are misleading.\n\nThe Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, found, alongside analysis from Res Futura, that online reactions often focused on a fragment of Tusk's comments and ignored the wider context.\n\nWhat did Tusk say?\n\nAt the press conference in Berlin last week, Tusk urged Germany to speed up payments for roughly 50,000 Polish survivors of WWII atrocities who are still alive.\n\nPoland's former ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has long demanded Germany pay reparations for its occupation of Poland in WWII, which devastated Warsaw and killed about one-fifth of Poland's pre-war population.\n\nPiS has calculated the amount to be 6.2 trillion z\u0142oty (approximately \u20ac1.5 trillion in today's exchange rate). Tusk and his Civic Coalition party have stopped short of demanding the full amount, and instead called on Berlin to find different solutions, including paying support for the thousands of Polish survivors of the Third Reich.\n\nSince he first discussed the idea with Berlin, the Polish leader said on 1 December that at least 10,000 survivors had died.\n\nAs he urged Berlin to speed up payments, Tusk added that if they did not pay quickly, \"I will consider Poland meeting this need from its own resources\".\n\nAccording to Res Futura, Tusk's comments spread widely on social media through the phrase \"Poland pays for the Germans\". Most posts came from accounts connected to PiS and were often detached from the wider context of what Tusk said.\n\nPiotr Buras, head of the European Council of Foreign Relations' Warsaw office, told The Cube that Tusk's remark was designed to exert pressure on Germany rather than suggest Poland was going to pay Germany's bills.\u00a0\n\n\"It is about shaming the Germans and not about promising to pay anything,\u201d Buras said. \"These are about 50,000 people who are very old. If Germany is unable to cover this symbolic amount, Poland will take care of its own citizens.\"\n\nThe reparations debate\n\nOne legal expert told The Cube that the question of whether Poland can still demand reparations cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.\u00a0\n\nGermany argues that the legal issue was settled twice: first in 1953 when Poland renounced its claims to compensation in an agreement with East Germany, and then again in 1990, when Germany reunited and no claim was brought against the new federal republic. Poland was not a signatory to the reunification agreement.\n\nLouis Le Hardy de Beaulieu, professor of International law at l'UCLouvain, said that \"from these two standpoints, Germany argues there is no legal basis to go further\" and that the argument \"has credible elements\".\n\nPoland, however, has asserted that the 1953 declaration is invalid as it was made whilst the country was under Soviet control.\n\n\"If we accepted that argument, we would have to revisit every treaty ever signed under a regime different from the one currently in power,\" Le Hardy de Beaulieu told The Cube.\n\nAccording to former Polish Defence Minister and independent politician Jan Parys, Tusk has ignored a motion almost unanimously passed by the Polish parliament that Germany should pay fully for reparations.\u00a0\n\n\"There is a consensus at home that the issue of the war was never truly settled,\" Pary told The Cube. \"The German state paid large sums to Great Britain, the United States and France, but with Poland, we received only a minimal fund for former concentration camp prisoners.\"\n\n\"Tusk put forward a decision that went against the decision of the Polish Parliament,\" he added.\n\nBeyond legal questions, Buras said that Poland demanding full reparations from Germany would risk a political crisis and threaten co-operation between the two countries.\n\n\"It would be the only issue which would dominate this relationship,\" he told The Cube.\u00a0\n\nIs Tusk 'pro-German'?\n\nAccording to Res Futura, many of the viral posts on Facebook and X also accuse Tusk of being a \"pro-German politician\" and a \"traitor\", claims that have been levelled at Tusk for years.\u00a0\n\n\"Those who want to portray Tusk as a German agent and someone who is sacrificing Polish interests, they will do it regardless of what his intention is, what his policy is,\" Buras said.\n\n\u201cGermany stands, in a way, for Western Europe in the Polish discourse,\" he added. \"And Tusk is seen as a pro-European politician.\"\n\nParys told The Cube that this perception is rooted in Tusk's past decisions when he previously led Poland, including his close cooperation with Angela Merkel and disagreements over security policy.\u00a0\n\n\"Poland is divided,\" he said. \"The opposition favours cooperation with the United States, while the government, led by Donald Tusk, prefers cooperation with Germany.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A series of recent posts on Facebook and X have accused Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk of agreeing that \"Poland will pay for the Germans\", following high-level talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that touched on the long-standing issue of World War II reparations. <\/p>\n<p>The phrase appeared in dozens of posts across platforms and became the dominant narrative in online discussions, according to a<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////resfutura.pl//021225-2///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <strong>report by Res Futura<\/strong><\/a>, a Polish NGO specialising in information security. <\/p>\n<p>A review of what Tusk actually said in the press conference suggests that several of the claims circulating about him are misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, found, alongside analysis from Res Futura, that online reactions often focused on a fragment of Tusk's comments and ignored the wider context.<\/p>\n<h2>What did Tusk say?<\/h2>\n<p>At the press conference in Berlin last week, Tusk urged Germany to speed up payments for roughly 50,000 Polish survivors of WWII atrocities who are still alive.<\/p>\n<p>Poland's former ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has long demanded Germany pay reparations for its occupation of Poland in WWII, which devastated Warsaw and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////web.archive.org//web//20130201065133//http:////niniwa2.cba.pl//polska_1939_1945.htm/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>killed about one-fifth of Poland's pre-war population<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PiS has calculated the amount to be 6.2 trillion z\u0142oty (approximately \u20ac1.5 trillion in today's exchange rate). Tusk and his Civic Coalition party have stopped short of demanding the full amount, and instead called on Berlin to find different solutions, including paying support for the thousands of Polish survivors of the Third Reich. <\/p>\n<p>Since he first discussed the idea with Berlin, the Polish leader said on 1 December that at least 10,000 survivors had died.<\/p>\n<p>As he urged Berlin to speed up payments, Tusk added that if they did not pay quickly, \"I will consider Poland meeting this need from its own resources\".<\/p>\n<p>According to Res Futura, Tusk's comments spread widely on social media through the phrase \"Poland pays for the Germans\". Most posts came from accounts connected to PiS and were often detached from the wider context of what Tusk said. <\/p>\n<p>Piotr Buras, head of the European Council of Foreign Relations' Warsaw office, told The Cube that Tusk's remark was designed to exert pressure on Germany rather than suggest Poland was going to pay Germany's bills. <\/p>\n<p>\"It is about shaming the Germans and not about promising to pay anything,\u201d Buras said. \"These are about 50,000 people who are very old. If Germany is unable to cover this symbolic amount, Poland will take care of its own citizens.\"<\/p>\n<h2>The reparations debate<\/h2>\n<p>One legal expert told The Cube that the question of whether Poland can still demand reparations cannot be answered with a simple yes or no. <\/p>\n<p>Germany argues that the legal issue was settled twice: first in 1953 when Poland renounced its claims to compensation in an agreement with East Germany, and then again in 1990, when Germany reunited and no claim was brought against the new federal republic. Poland was not a signatory to the reunification agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Le Hardy de Beaulieu, professor of International law at l'UCLouvain, said that \"from these two standpoints, Germany argues there is no legal basis to go further\" and that the argument \"has credible elements\". <\/p>\n<p>Poland, however, has asserted that the 1953 declaration is invalid as it was made whilst the country was under Soviet control. <\/p>\n<p>\"If we accepted that argument, we would have to revisit every treaty ever signed under a regime different from the one currently in power,\" Le Hardy de Beaulieu told The Cube. <\/p>\n<p>According to former Polish Defence Minister and independent politician Jan Parys, Tusk has ignored a motion almost unanimously passed by the Polish parliament that Germany should pay fully for reparations. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n <div 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Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"There is a consensus at home that the issue of the war was never truly settled,\" Pary told The Cube. \"The German state paid large sums to Great Britain, the United States and France, but with Poland, we received only a minimal fund for former concentration camp prisoners.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Tusk put forward a decision that went against the decision of the Polish Parliament,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond legal questions, Buras said that Poland demanding full reparations from Germany would risk a political crisis and threaten co-operation between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>\"It would be the only issue which would dominate this relationship,\" he told The Cube. <\/p>\n<h2>Is Tusk 'pro-German'?<\/h2>\n<p>According to Res Futura, many of the viral posts on Facebook and X also accuse Tusk of being a \"pro-German politician\" and a \"traitor\", claims that have been levelled at Tusk for years. <\/p>\n<p>\"Those who want to portray Tusk as a German agent and someone who is sacrificing Polish interests, they will do it regardless of what his intention is, what his policy is,\" Buras said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGermany stands, in a way, for Western Europe in the Polish discourse,\" he added. \"And Tusk is seen as a pro-European politician.\"<\/p>\n<p>Parys told The Cube that this perception is rooted in Tusk's past decisions when he previously led Poland, including his close cooperation with Angela Merkel and disagreements over security policy. <\/p>\n<p>\"Poland is divided,\" he said. \"The opposition favours cooperation with the United States, while the government, led by Donald Tusk, prefers cooperation with 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reports new influx of refugees - from Germany","daletPyramidId":3514935,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Exclusive: Poland sees new influx of refugees arriving from western Europe","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Exclusive: Poland sees new influx of refugees arriving from the West","titleListing2":"Exclusive: Poland reports new refugee influx from the West","leadin":"Polish ambassador Jan Tombi\u0144ski reports a new trend of refugees arriving from western Europe as Warsaw reviews its asylum regulations and border controls with Germany.","summary":"Polish ambassador Jan Tombi\u0144ski reports a new trend of refugees arriving from western Europe as Warsaw reviews its asylum regulations and border controls with Germany.","keySentence":"","url":"exclusive-poland-sees-new-influx-of-refugees-arriving-from-western-europe","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/05\/exclusive-poland-sees-new-influx-of-refugees-arriving-from-western-europe","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland is experiencing a new influx of refugees arriving from western Europe rather than from the east, the country's ambassador to Germany Jan Tombi\u0144ski said on Friday.\n\nTombi\u0144ski told a press conference at the Polish Embassy in Berlin that border police had reported witnessing \"a new phenomenon\" in recent days.\n\n\"Refugees are coming to Poland from the West,\" Tombi\u0144ski said. These are people who have tried to obtain asylum in other parts of Europe and now want to apply in Poland.\n\nUntil now, reports had focused on refugee flows from Belarus, which some have described as a Russian and Belarusian sabotage operation.\n\nThe EU accused Belarusian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka of bringing migrants from crisis regions to the EU's external border to pressure the West.\n\nBut \"this border is tighter than any other border in Europe,\" Tombi\u0144ski said.\n\nNumbers still limited\n\nThe westward arrivals are not coming in their thousands, Tombi\u0144ski said. Nevertheless, Poland must now address the situation and review its asylum regulations, he added. The country must consider how to reduce Poland's \"attractiveness\" for these migrants.\n\nPolish border guards are working with German police to identify people and prevent illegal border crossings, Tombi\u0144ski said. \"Daily operational cooperation is progressing very well, based on what I know from both sides,\" the ambassador said.\n\nIn October, Poland announced it would extend border controls with Germany until 4 April 2026 to monitor the migration route running from the Baltic states through Poland to western Europe, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski said.\n\nWarsaw introduced border checks in early July in response to German controls. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made clear that ending the border checks depends on decisions by the German government.\n\n\"We want to return to Schengen as quickly as possible,\" Tombi\u0144ski confirmed. But German ministers would have to be asked about this. \"We certainly had no interest in introducing border supervision,\" he added.\n\nFollowing Tusk's visit to the German Chancellery on Monday, many observers criticised the cool atmosphere between the Polish delegation and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.\n\nBeyond the unresolved issue of war reparations, border controls were also on the table.\n\nTombi\u0144ski stressed the reparations issue concerns \"lasting support\" for survivors of World War II. Poland does not want an \"accounting operation,\" he said. A one-off payment would not help people in the long term.\n\nEvery day of hesitation costs more than the payments themselves, Tombi\u0144ski argued. \"The cost of doing nothing is higher.\" The issue, he emphasised, is about trust.\n\nUkraine remains common priority\n\nDespite their differences, the neighbouring countries remain united by Russia's war in Ukraine and the need to rebuild the country.\n\n\"Everything that is done for Ukraine also has meaning and consequences for us,\" Tombi\u0144ski said.\n\nThis will be the focus of a meeting between Merz and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is also expected to attend. Merz postponed his trip to Oslo for this meeting.\n\nThe talks will focus on the use of frozen Russian assets. Tombi\u0144ski said he hoped progress would be made, as Russia must pay for the costs of its war in Ukraine, he stressed.\n\nFor Poland, it is crucial that Germany strongly supports Ukraine, Tombi\u0144ski said. The ambassador expressed satisfaction with the ongoing cooperation between the German and Polish armed forces.\n\nGermany is significantly more engaged in Poland than other NATO partners, Tombi\u0144ski noted.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland is experiencing a new influx of refugees arriving from western Europe rather than from the east, the country's ambassador to Germany Jan Tombi\u0144ski said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tombi\u0144ski told a press conference at the Polish Embassy in Berlin that border police had reported witnessing \"a new phenomenon\" in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>\"Refugees are coming to Poland from the West,\" Tombi\u0144ski said. These are people who have tried to obtain asylum in other parts of Europe and now want to apply in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, reports had focused on refugee flows from Belarus, which some have described as a Russian and Belarusian sabotage operation. <\/p>\n<p>The EU accused Belarusian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka of bringing migrants from crisis regions to the EU's external border to pressure the West.<\/p>\n<p>But \"this border is tighter than any other border in Europe,\" Tombi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Numbers still limited<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The westward arrivals are not coming in their thousands, Tombi\u0144ski said. Nevertheless, Poland must now address the situation and review its asylum regulations, he added. The country must consider how to reduce Poland's \"attractiveness\" for these migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Polish border guards are working with German police to identify people and prevent illegal border crossings, Tombi\u0144ski said. \"Daily operational cooperation is progressing very well, based on what I know from both sides,\" the ambassador said.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Poland announced it would extend border controls with Germany until 4 April 2026 to monitor the migration route running from the Baltic states through Poland to western Europe, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//29//68//808x539_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg/" alt=\"A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, 11 October, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/384x256_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/640x427_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/750x500_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/828x552_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1080x720_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1200x800_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1920x1280_cmsv2_76259d22-20e7-5842-937a-08b44222020c-9572968.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, 11 October, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Warsaw introduced border checks in early July in response to German controls. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made clear that ending the border checks depends on decisions by the German government.<\/p>\n<p>\"We want to return to Schengen as quickly as possible,\" Tombi\u0144ski confirmed. But German ministers would have to be asked about this. \"We certainly had no interest in introducing border supervision,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Following Tusk's visit to the German Chancellery on Monday, many observers criticised the cool atmosphere between the Polish delegation and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the unresolved issue of war reparations, border controls were also on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Tombi\u0144ski stressed the reparations issue concerns \"lasting support\" for survivors of World War II. Poland does not want an \"accounting operation,\" he said. A one-off payment would not help people in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Every day of hesitation costs more than the payments themselves, Tombi\u0144ski argued. \"The cost of doing nothing is higher.\" The issue, he emphasised, is about trust.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//14//poland-implements-new-security-measures-at-belarus-border-while-re-opening-two-crossings/">Poland implements new security measures at Belarus border while re-opening two crossings<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//09//18//eu-closely-monitors-possible-trade-impact-of-poland-belarus-border-closure/">EU 'closely' monitors possible trade impact of Poland-Belarus border closure<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Ukraine remains common priority<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Despite their differences, the neighbouring countries remain united by Russia's war in Ukraine and the need to rebuild the country.<\/p>\n<p>\"Everything that is done for Ukraine also has meaning and consequences for us,\" Tombi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the focus of a meeting between Merz and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is also expected to attend. Merz postponed his trip to Oslo for this meeting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//29//68//808x539_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg/" alt=\"Ruins of what was the town of Kostyantynivka, 28 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/384x256_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/640x427_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/750x500_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/828x552_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1080x720_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1200x800_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/1920x1280_cmsv2_469110a5-658f-55e0-a23d-0c38fbc10b44-9572968.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ruins of what was the town of Kostyantynivka, 28 November, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The talks will focus on the use of frozen Russian assets. Tombi\u0144ski said he hoped progress would be made, as Russia must pay for the costs of its war in Ukraine, he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>For Poland, it is crucial that Germany strongly supports Ukraine, Tombi\u0144ski said. The ambassador expressed satisfaction with the ongoing cooperation between the German and Polish armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is significantly more engaged in Poland than other NATO partners, Tombi\u0144ski noted.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764933118,"updatedAt":1764940547,"publishedAt":1764940543,"firstPublishedAt":1764940543,"lastPublishedAt":1764940543,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/29\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_96ce81f8-01c3-5230-b421-f1acdf8c3fbb-9572968.jpg","altText":"A soldier stands guard by a metal barrier in Bialowieza forest, 29 May 2024","caption":"A soldier stands guard by a metal barrier in Bialowieza forest, 29 May 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Czarek Sokolowski\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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FOR FORMER PM OF POLAND","daletPyramidId":3508026,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Euronews exclusive: State tribunal for Poland's former PM and members of his government?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"State tribunal for Poland's former PM Morawiecki and his ministers?","titleListing2":"Prosecutor's office has brought charges against former #Prime Minister Mateusz #Morawiecki and two former members of his government. One of the ministers, in an interview with #Euronews, assessed the prosecution's actions as political.","leadin":"Three former ministers, including then Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, are alleged to have committed violations of the law in connection with their official functions.","summary":"Three former ministers, including then Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, are alleged to have committed violations of the law in connection with their official functions.","keySentence":"","url":"euronews-exclusive-state-tribunal-for-polands-former-pm-and-members-of-his-government","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/04\/euronews-exclusive-state-tribunal-for-polands-former-pm-and-members-of-his-government","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland's Prosecutor General Waldemar \u017burek has informed the parliament speaker that charges have been brought against three key politicians associated with the previous government led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.\n\nThey are former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Mariusz Blaszczak and the former head of the Ministry of Agriculture Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski.\n\nAccording to the prosecutor's office, they are all alleged to have committed violations of the law in connection with their official functions, the Prosecutor General's office announced on Thursday.\n\nAccording to law, the prosecutor is obliged to notify the parliament speaker that criminal proceedings are being conducted against a member of the Council of Ministers.\n\nThe forwarded document may become the basis for assessing whether the described actions exhaust the elements of a constitutional tort. If it is considered that there has been a violation of the constitution or laws, the Sejm may decide to refer the case to the State Tribunal.\n\nA constitutional tort is a violation of constitutional provisions by a person exercising public authority that is not a criminal offence but is a clear violation of the Constitution or a law. Such cases are heard by a State Tribunal.\n\nPersons in the highest state positions may be brought before the State Tribunal, including the president, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and members of the Government.\n\nCharges for former members of the PiS government\n\nAccording to the prosecutor's office, former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly exceeded his powers and failed to fulfil his duties during the organisation of the missed postal elections in 2020. The investigation relates to decisions made during the pandemic period, including the alleged illegal sharing of the personal data of millions of citizens with local government units.\n\nFormer Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Mariusz Blaszczak is also facing charges. He is accused of exceeding his powers and disclosing state secrets. As minister, he is alleged to have allowed the removal of the confidentiality clause from parts of defence plans related to troop movements in the event of an attack from the east. The indictment in this case has already gone to court and Blaszczak has the status of a defendant.\n\nFinancial charges have been filed against Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski. The former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has been accused of mismanagement, failure to fulfil his duties and exceeding his powers in connection with the provision of bank and credit guarantees to frozen food producer Eskimos SA. The prosecutor's office claims that Ardanowski, knowing of the company's poor financial condition, \"led, contrary to the applicable regulations, to the granting of a bank guarantee to the company in the total amount of PLN 100 million (around \u20ac23 million) and the granting of a credit guarantee by the National Agricultural Support Centre in the amount of PLN 20 million (\u20ac4 million).\"\n\nProceedings against all three former ministers started after their immunities were lifted by the Sejm earlier this year and in the case of Morawiecki, after he voluntarily gave up his parliamentary protection.\n\nArdanowski's comments to Euronews\n\nFormer Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski commented on the case in an interview with Euronews, calling the prosecution's actions political.\n\n\"Mr Zurek is threatening virtually all politicians on the right that he will put them before the State Tribunal. He recently deigned to say that he is also considering putting President Karol Nawrocki before the State Tribunal. For me, it is in a way an honour to be mentioned with people like Prime Minister Morawiecki or the President. I am approaching this with complete calm,\" he said.\n\nArdanowski stressed that the legal case is supposed to divert attention from the difficult situation the current government is facing.\n\n\"It seems to me that bringing up these issues is to divert attention from the actual problems of the current government. There is evidently fire there, if this kind of action on the part of the Attorney General is being taken. I don't know what this is supposed to distract attention from. Perhaps from the Prime Minister's statements towards Germany or the collapse of the health service? It is not for me to decide,\" he stated.\n\nThe former minister said that decisions regarding support for producers were the constitutional duty of a minister and were intended to prevent the bankruptcy of thousands of farms.\n\n\"I expect from the prosecutors that if they have any allegations against me, let them take the case to court. I will present witnesses. The witnesses will be the entire Council of Ministers at the time with Prime Minister Morawiecki. This decision to give a loan guarantee, which I am accused of, was with the approval of the Attorney General's Office. It was a decision to guarantee not any state aid, but a commercial guarantee related to the agreement to take over the register set, register set and matched commissions,\" he said.\n\nHe also reiterated that the State Treasury had not suffered a loss and that the whole affair was \"an affair concocted by the CBA (Central Anticorruption Bureau) leadership.\"\n\nThe former minister argued that for years he has been demanding that the case be taken to court, where he could present documents and witnesses, including the then Council of Ministers.\n\n\"I demand from the prosecutors, and I have signalled this many times, that the case be referred to court so that I can present witnesses, documents before an independent court. But the prosecutors don't flinch from referring the case to court. On the other hand, Mr Zurek, who is flailing around and does not really know what to do next, wants more politicians associated with the Polish right wing to appear before the State Tribunal. For me, this is embarrassing,\" Ardanowski told Euronews.\n\n\"An affair once concocted by the CBA leadership to shut my mouth in inverted commas, contrived to divert attention from the important problems of the current government,\" he added.\n\nArdanowski said he intends to defend himself before the Polish courts.\n\n\"I would be strongly surprised, in spite of even this political war that is going on here in the Sejm, that my actions would be considered as actions harmful to the state. This would mean that it is not worth it to be involved in activities in the state administration, to take actions that are supposed to serve Poland, to save our economy, to save certain social groups, because everything is just blunt politics of the kind that Mr \u017burek is implementing at the moment.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland's Prosecutor General Waldemar \u017burek has informed the parliament speaker that charges have been brought against three key politicians associated with the previous government led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.<\/p>\n<p>They are former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Mariusz Blaszczak and the former head of the Ministry of Agriculture Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecutor's office, they are all alleged to have committed violations of the law in connection with their official functions, the Prosecutor General's office announced on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>According to law, the prosecutor is obliged to notify the parliament speaker that criminal proceedings are being conducted against a member of the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>The forwarded document may become the basis for assessing whether the described actions exhaust the elements of a constitutional tort. If it is considered that there has been a violation of the constitution or laws, the Sejm may decide to refer the case to the State Tribunal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//20//71//808x539_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg/" alt=\"Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks to supporters before being interrogated by prosecutors in Warsaw, 27 February, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/384x256_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/640x427_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/750x500_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/828x552_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1080x720_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1200x800_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1920x1280_cmsv2_089a4ca1-81de-597c-8deb-e1dc1040f535-9572071.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks to supporters before being interrogated by prosecutors in Warsaw, 27 February, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A constitutional tort is a violation of constitutional provisions by a person exercising public authority that is not a criminal offence but is a clear violation of the Constitution or a law. Such cases are heard by a State Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>Persons in the highest state positions may be brought before the State Tribunal, including the president, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and members of the Government.<\/p>\n<h2>Charges for former members of the PiS government<\/h2>\n<p>According to the prosecutor's office, former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki allegedly exceeded his powers and failed to fulfil his duties during the organisation of the missed postal elections in 2020. The investigation relates to decisions made during the pandemic period, including the alleged illegal sharing of the personal data of millions of citizens with local government units.<\/p>\n<p>Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National DefenceMariusz Blaszczak is also facing charges. He is accused of exceeding his powers and disclosing state secrets. As minister, he is alleged to have allowed the removal of the confidentiality clause from parts of defence plans related to troop movements in the event of an attack from the east. The indictment in this case has already gone to court and Blaszczak has the status of a defendant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//20//71//808x539_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg/" alt=\"Supporters the Law and Justice party attend a rally against illegal migration and the Mercosur agreement in Warsaw, 11 October, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/384x256_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/640x427_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/750x500_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/828x552_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1080x720_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1200x800_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/1920x1280_cmsv2_d660c84f-e3a9-56fc-9d9d-108c838d35e8-9572071.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Supporters the Law and Justice party attend a rally against illegal migration and the Mercosur agreement in Warsaw, 11 October, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Financial charges have been filed against Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski. The former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has been accused of mismanagement, failure to fulfil his duties and exceeding his powers in connection with the provision of bank and credit guarantees to frozen food producer Eskimos SA. The prosecutor's office claims that Ardanowski, knowing of the company's poor financial condition, \"led, contrary to the applicable regulations, to the granting of a bank guarantee to the company in the total amount of PLN 100 million (around \u20ac23 million) and the granting of a credit guarantee by theNationalAgricultural Support Centre in the amount of PLN 20 million (\u20ac4 million).\"<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings against all three former ministers started after their immunities were lifted by the Sejm earlier this year and in the case of Morawiecki, after he voluntarily gave up his parliamentary protection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//12//15//europe-still-far-from-finding-a-compromise-on-the-gas-price-cap-polish-pm-tells-euronews/">Europe still 'far from finding a compromise\u2019 on the gas price cap, Polish PM tells Euronews<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//03//17//morawiecki-no-word-that-comes-from-the-kremlin-should-be-trusted-by-definition/">Morawiecki: No word that comes from the Kremlin should be trusted by definition<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Ardanowski's comments to Euronews<\/h2>\n<p>Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski commented on the case in an interview with Euronews, calling the prosecution's actions political.<\/p>\n<p>\"Mr Zurek is threatening virtually all politicians on the right that he will put them before the State Tribunal. He recently deigned to say that he is also considering putting President Karol Nawrocki before the State Tribunal. For me, it is in a way an honour to be mentioned with people like Prime Minister Morawiecki or the President. I am approaching this with complete calm,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ardanowski stressed that the legal case is supposed to divert attention from the difficult situation the current government is facing.<\/p>\n<p>\"It seems to me that bringing up these issues is to divert attention from the actual problems of the current government. There is evidently fire there, if this kind of action on the part of the Attorney General is being taken. I don't know what this is supposed to distract attention from. Perhaps from the Prime Minister's statements towards Germany or the collapse of the health service? It is not for me to decide,\" he stated.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6664080682699767\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//15//59//808x539_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg/" alt=\"Former Minister of Agriculture Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/384x256_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/640x427_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/750x500_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/828x552_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/1080x720_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/1200x800_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/15\/59\/1920x1280_cmsv2_9c4e4bf5-bfb9-5f78-b0f0-544e579f263a-9571559.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former Agriculture Minister Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">X\/Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The former minister said that decisions regarding support for producers were the constitutional duty of a minister and were intended to prevent the bankruptcy of thousands of farms.<\/p>\n<p>\"I expect from the prosecutors that if they have any allegations against me, let them take the case to court. I will present witnesses. The witnesses will be the entire Council of Ministers at the time with Prime Minister Morawiecki. This decision to give a loan guarantee, which I am accused of, was with the approval of the Attorney General's Office. It was a decision to guarantee not any state aid, but a commercial guarantee related to the agreement to take over the register set, register set and matched commissions,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also reiterated that the State Treasury had not suffered a loss and that the whole affair was \"an affair concocted by the CBA (Central Anticorruption Bureau) leadership.\"<\/p>\n<p>The former minister argued that for years he has been demanding that the case be taken to court, where he could present documents and witnesses, including the then Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//51//46//15//808x539_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg/" alt=\"Poland&#x2019;s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, in Warsaw, 7 March, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/384x256_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/640x427_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/750x500_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/828x552_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1080x720_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1200x800_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1920x1280_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Poland&#x2019;s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, in Warsaw, 7 March, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"I demand from the prosecutors, and I have signalled this many times, that the case be referred to court so that I can present witnesses, documents before an independent court. But the prosecutors don't flinch from referring the case to court. On the other hand, Mr Zurek, who is flailing around and does not really know what to do next, wants more politicians associated with the Polish right wing to appear before the State Tribunal. For me, this is embarrassing,\" Ardanowski told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"An affair once concocted by the CBA leadership to shut my mouth in inverted commas, contrived to divert attention from the important problems of the current government,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ardanowski said he intends to defend himself before the Polish courts.<\/p>\n<p>\"I would be strongly surprised, in spite of even this political war that is going on here in the Sejm, that my actions would be considered as actions harmful to the state. This would mean that it is not worth it to be involved in activities in the state administration, to take actions that are supposed to serve Poland, to save our economy, to save certain social groups, because everything is just blunt politics of the kind that Mr \u017burek is implementing at the moment.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764866161,"updatedAt":1764872748,"publishedAt":1764872744,"firstPublishedAt":1764872744,"lastPublishedAt":1764872744,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/20\/71\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d0cbd689-ea39-5b90-8161-759784347731-9572071.jpg","altText":"A woman walks in front of Poland's Supreme Court building in Warsaw, 9 February, 2023","caption":"A woman walks in front of Poland's Supreme Court building in Warsaw, 9 February, 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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SEA SUBMARINES PL","daletPyramidId":3503377,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland invests \u20ac2.3 billion in Swedish submarines to modernise navy","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland invests \u20ac2.3 billion in Swedish submarines to modernise navy","titleListing2":"Security of the #Baltic Sea is becoming a priority for #Poland, which is investing in modern submarines. In an exclusive conversation with #Euronews, Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski assesses this step as crucial for the region.","leadin":"Poland is strengthening its presence in the Baltic Sea by investing in modern submarines. In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski stressed the importance of this decision for the security of the region and Europe.","summary":"Poland is strengthening its presence in the Baltic Sea by investing in modern submarines. In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski stressed the importance of this decision for the security of the region and Europe.","keySentence":"","url":"poland-invests-23-billion-in-swedish-submarines-to-modernise-navy","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/04\/poland-invests-23-billion-in-swedish-submarines-to-modernise-navy","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland has agreed to purchase three Swedish submarines in a deal worth approximately 10 billion zloty (\u20ac2.3 billion) as part of its long-awaited Orka naval modernisation programme.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced Poland will acquire A26 Blekinge-class submarines from Swedish manufacturer Saab, with the first vessel due to arrive in 2030.\n\n\"Sweden presented the best offer according to the team and this was confirmed by the Council of Ministers in an objective analysis of all criteria, both arising from delivery time, price, value, ability to operate especially in the Baltic Sea,\" Kosiniak-Kamysz said.\n\nSeven companies from six countries participated in the tender, including Germany's ThyssenKrupp, Italy's Fincantieri and France's Naval Group.\n\nSweden has pledged technology transfer and investment in Poland's shipbuilding industry to ensure the country can independently service and repair the vessels, according to the Defence Ministry.\n\nThe submarines will be able to dive to over 200 metres and operate autonomously for at least 30 days. They will be equipped with torpedoes and missile launchers capable of striking coastal and inland targets.\n\nPolish Navy's fleet outdated?\n\nThe purchase addresses critical gaps in Poland's naval capabilities. The Polish Navy currently operates about 40 vessels, of which nearly 30 are combat ships stationed mainly in Gdynia and \u015awinouj\u015bcie.\n\nTheir technical condition has raised concerns for years, as the naval forces have long been the least well-funded branch of Poland's military.\n\nPoland's only operational submarine, ORP Orze\u0142, was built in the Soviet Union in 1985 and spends more time in overhaul than at sea.\n\nThe fleet's largest vessels are equally outdated. The Oliver Hazard Perry frigates have more than 45 years of service, while the corvette ORP Kaszub is 38 years old.\n\nMost other ships serve mainly auxiliary functions, including numerous minesweepers and patrol vessels. The Kormoran II class mine destroyers remain the most modern element of the naval forces.\n\nRetired Lieutenant General Jaros\u0142aw Gromadzi\u0144ski told Euronews the Defence Ministry's decision was \"very good\", noting that three modern units guarantee continuity of combat capabilities.\n\n\"I am in favour of the contract with Sweden because the A26 submarine has a modular design that can be configured according to the needs of the ordering party,\" Gromadzi\u0144ski said. \"This ship has the advantage of being designed with the specifics of the Baltic Sea in mind.\"\n\nHowever, he noted the Navy has lacked strategic vision compared to Poland's land forces.\n\n\"We have the largest land army in Europe, but this is mainly due to the fact that we are bordering an aggressor. In my opinion, we have not been fully convinced of what role the Navy should play,\" he said.\n\nBaltic Sea of strategic importance\n\nSecuring the Baltic Sea is crucial for Poland's economic and energy security.\n\nThree Orlen oil platforms operate at sea, while Gdansk's oil port handles supplies for refineries in Poland and Germany.\n\nThe offshore wind energy sector is also developing, with the first 1.14 gigawatt farm due to be commissioned in 2026 some 23 kilometres offshore. It will provide energy for 1.5 million households and reduce CO\u2082 emissions by 2.8 million tonnes annually.\n\nThe LNG terminal in \u015awinouj\u015bcie has a capacity exceeding 8 billion cubic metres per year, while the Baltic Pipe pipeline can transport 10 billion cubic metres. According to analysts, both investments cover Poland's full annual gas demand.\n\nNumerous power and telecommunications cables also rest on the Baltic seabed. Poland operates three major container terminals: Baltic Hub in Gdansk, BCT and GCT in Gdynia, and facilities at the Szczecin-\u015awinouj\u015bcie port complex.\n\nOn 14 January, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launched the Baltic Sentry mission to counter Russian sabotage activities in the Baltic Sea and limit operations of the so-called shadow fleet.\n\nRussian tankers, often sailing under third-country flags, have been transporting oil to India despite sanctions. There have also been reports of damage to undersea cables.\n\nGromadzi\u0144ski warned that continued underinvestment in the fleet increases risks to key facilities.\n\n\"We need to build two or even three lines of protection. Firstly, we need reconnaissance in various forms: submarines and surface ships, sensor networks and reconnaissance aircraft,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a very complex system that is not economically viable for one country to maintain. However, in cooperation with Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Germany, we could have a technological, informational and strategic advantage.\"\n\nThe second line of defence should be anti-aircraft systems on ships and platforms, while the third should be kinetic strikes against enemy objects in the Baltic, he added.\n\nRussian Baltic Fleet and NATO\n\nThe Russian Baltic Fleet is stationed in Baltiysk at the entrance to the Vistula lagoon and in the Gulf of Finland. It includes a submarine, a destroyer, two frigates, four corvettes and a dozen small missile vessels and landing craft.\n\nThe accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO has shifted the balance of power in the region. Combined with support from Poland, Germany and Denmark, Russian vessels now face a much more difficult strategic position.\n\nShips stationed in the Gulf of Finland are particularly vulnerable, as the narrow body of water can be quickly closed off with mines or anti-ship missiles during conflict.\n\nStrategic islands, especially Gotland, are also crucial. Control of Gotland determines dominance in the Baltic, prompting Sweden to increase its military presence there.\n\n\"Russia maintains a fleet in the Baltic, and our task is to lock it in the ports so that, if necessary, it provides an easy target for artillery. In the event of a conflict, we must not allow these vessels to go to sea,\" Gromadzi\u0144ski said.\n\nHe recommended relocating Poland's main naval defence forces and command to \u015awinouj\u015bcie in the west, out of reach of potential eastern threats.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland has agreed to purchase three Swedish submarines in a deal worth approximately 10 billion zloty (\u20ac2.3 billion) as part of its long-awaited Orka naval modernisation programme.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz announced Poland will acquire A26 Blekinge-class submarines from Swedish manufacturer Saab, with the first vessel due to arrive in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sweden presented the best offer according to the team and this was confirmed by the Council of Ministers in an objective analysis of all criteria, both arising from delivery time, price, value, ability to operate especially in the Baltic Sea,\" Kosiniak-Kamysz said.<\/p>\n<p>Seven companies from six countries participated in the tender, including Germany's ThyssenKrupp, Italy's Fincantieri and France's Naval Group.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has pledged technology transfer and investment in Poland's shipbuilding industry to ensure the country can independently service and repair the vessels, according to the Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1993754833560670580\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The submarines will be able to dive to over 200 metres and operate autonomously for at least 30 days. They will be equipped with torpedoes and missile launchers capable of striking coastal and inland targets.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Polish Navy's fleet outdated?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The purchase addresses critical gaps in Poland's naval capabilities. The Polish Navy currently operates about 40 vessels, of which nearly 30 are combat ships stationed mainly in Gdynia and \u015awinouj\u015bcie.<\/p>\n<p>Their technical condition has raised concerns for years, as the naval forces have long been the least well-funded branch of Poland's military.<\/p>\n<p>Poland's only operational submarine, ORP Orze\u0142, was built in the Soviet Union in 1985 and spends more time in overhaul than at sea.<\/p>\n<p>The fleet's largest vessels are equally outdated. The Oliver Hazard Perry frigates have more than 45 years of service, while the corvette ORP Kaszub is 38 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Most other ships serve mainly auxiliary functions, including numerous minesweepers and patrol vessels. The Kormoran II class mine destroyers remain the most modern element of the naval forces.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//16//21//808x539_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: The Polish frigate &#x22;General Kosciuszko&#x22; sets course at the start of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) NATO maneuver from the port of Warenmuende, 5 June 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/384x256_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/640x427_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/750x500_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/828x552_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1080x720_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1200x800_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c473a2bb-bf9f-53c6-8ebc-e052a41c6a21-9571621.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: The Polish frigate &#x22;General Kosciuszko&#x22; sets course at the start of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) NATO maneuver from the port of Warenmuende, 5 June 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Retired Lieutenant General Jaros\u0142aw Gromadzi\u0144ski told Euronews the Defence Ministry's decision was \"very good\", noting that three modern units guarantee continuity of combat capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am in favour of the contract with Sweden because the A26 submarine has a modular design that can be configured according to the needs of the ordering party,\" Gromadzi\u0144ski said. \"This ship has the advantage of being designed with the specifics of the Baltic Sea in mind.\"<\/p>\n<p>However, he noted the Navy has lacked strategic vision compared to Poland's land forces.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have the largest land army in Europe, but this is mainly due to the fact that we are bordering an aggressor. In my opinion, we have not been fully convinced of what role the Navy should play,\" he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Baltic Sea of strategic importance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Securing the Baltic Sea is crucial for Poland's economic and energy security.<\/p>\n<p>Three Orlen oil platforms operate at sea, while Gdansk's oil port handles supplies for refineries in Poland and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The offshore wind energy sector is also developing, with the first 1.14 gigawatt farm due to be commissioned in 2026 some 23 kilometres offshore. It will provide energy for 1.5 million households and reduce CO\u2082 emissions by 2.8 million tonnes annually.<\/p>\n<p>The LNG terminal in \u015awinouj\u015bcie has a capacity exceeding 8 billion cubic metres per year, while the Baltic Pipe pipeline can transport 10 billion cubic metres. According to analysts, both investments cover Poland's full annual gas demand.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous power and telecommunications cables also rest on the Baltic seabed. Poland operates three major container terminals: Baltic Hub in Gdansk, BCT and GCT in Gdynia, and facilities at the Szczecin-\u015awinouj\u015bcie port complex.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//16//21//808x539_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg/" alt=\"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, 3 December 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/384x256_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/640x427_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/750x500_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/828x552_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1080x720_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1200x800_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1920x1281_cmsv2_67023b29-5719-5c98-a055-19fe5f0bb011-9571621.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks during a media conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, 3 December 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>On 14 January, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launched the Baltic Sentry mission to counter Russian sabotage activities in the Baltic Sea and limit operations of the so-called shadow fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Russian tankers, often sailing under third-country flags, have been transporting oil to India despite sanctions. There have also been reports of damage to undersea cables.<\/p>\n<p>Gromadzi\u0144ski warned that continued underinvestment in the fleet increases risks to key facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need to build two or even three lines of protection. Firstly, we need reconnaissance in various forms: submarines and surface ships, sensor networks and reconnaissance aircraft,\" he said. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is a very complex system that is not economically viable for one country to maintain. However, in cooperation with Sweden, Finland, Denmark or Germany, we could have a technological, informational and strategic advantage.\"<\/p>\n<p>The second line of defence should be anti-aircraft systems on ships and platforms, while the third should be kinetic strikes against enemy objects in the Baltic, he added.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Russian Baltic Fleet and NATO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Russian Baltic Fleet is stationed in Baltiysk at the entrance to the Vistula lagoon and in the Gulf of Finland. It includes a submarine, a destroyer, two frigates, four corvettes and a dozen small missile vessels and landing craft.<\/p>\n<p>The accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO has shifted the balance of power in the region. Combined with support from Poland, Germany and Denmark, Russian vessels now face a much more difficult strategic position.<\/p>\n<p>Ships stationed in the Gulf of Finland are particularly vulnerable, as the narrow body of water can be quickly closed off with mines or anti-ship missiles during conflict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//16//21//808x539_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg/" alt=\"A military hovercraft approaches shore during the Russian-Belarusian West-2013 joint war games at the Khmelevka shooting range in Kaliningrad region, 26 September 2013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/384x256_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/640x426_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/750x500_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/828x551_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1080x719_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1200x799_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/16\/21\/1920x1279_cmsv2_f0c1b73d-fbd2-5376-ae7e-166d1f1c2bd0-9571621.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A military hovercraft approaches shore during the Russian-Belarusian West-2013 joint war games at the Khmelevka shooting range in Kaliningrad region, 26 September 2013<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Alexei Druzhinin\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Strategic islands, especially Gotland, are also crucial. Control of Gotland determines dominance in the Baltic, prompting Sweden to increase its military presence there.<\/p>\n<p>\"Russia maintains a fleet in the Baltic, and our task is to lock it in the ports so that, if necessary, it provides an easy target for artillery. In the event of a conflict, we must not allow these vessels to go to sea,\" Gromadzi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<p>He recommended relocating Poland's main naval defence forces and command to \u015awinouj\u015bcie in the west, out of reach of potential eastern threats.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764847921,"updatedAt":1764855354,"publishedAt":1764855350,"firstPublishedAt":1764855350,"lastPublishedAt":1764855350,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/89\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_93a6532d-e412-5fdd-8baf-a3e00e81d7c0-9568978.jpg","altText":"Soldiers of the Polish Navy. ","caption":"Soldiers of the Polish Navy. 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CHARGES RUSSIAN MAN SABOTAGE","daletPyramidId":3481929,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland charges Russian man with directing sabotage and spying from Moscow region","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland charges Russian man with directing sabotage from Moscow region","titleListing2":"Poland charges Russian man with directing sabotage from Moscow region","leadin":"Mikhail Mirgorodsky faces five charges, including organising and leading a criminal group and ordering threats against Ukrainians in Poland.","summary":"Mikhail Mirgorodsky faces five charges, including organising and leading a criminal group and ordering threats against Ukrainians in Poland.","keySentence":"","url":"poland-charges-russian-man-with-directing-sabotage-and-spying-from-moscow-region","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/02\/poland-charges-russian-man-with-directing-sabotage-and-spying-from-moscow-region","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Polish authorities have charged a Russian national in absentia with directing a sabotage and espionage network in Poland on behalf of the Kremlin's intelligence services.\n\nMikhail Mirgorodsky, 28, is accused of leading an organised criminal group of at least 30 people who carried out sabotage on Polish soil at the behest of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\nWhile residing in Russia, Mirgorodsky allegedly oversaw \"espionage, sabotage, subversion and propaganda activities on behalf of the aforementioned intelligence,\" prosecutors said.\n\nHe used the Telegram messaging app to direct the group and his expertise in cryptocurrency to finance their activities in Poland, according to officials.\n\nMirgorodsky \u2014 a mathematician who is said to live in a town in the Moscow region \u2014 faces five charges, including organising and leading a criminal group, arson attacks, ordering threats against Ukrainians in Poland and financing crime with cryptocurrency.\n\nPolish prosecutors said they had initiated a search for the suspect with an arrest warrant and taken steps to launch an international manhunt through an Interpol red notice.\n\nIn 2023, 16 members of Mirgorodsky's network were arrested, including a dozen Ukrainians, three Belarusians and one Russian citizen, according to Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW). They were jailed for terms ranging from 13 months to six years.\n\nAs a result, the group's attempt in 2023 to derail trains transporting weapons and humanitarian aid to Ukraine through Poland was foiled, authorities said.\n\nAs part of the ongoing investigation, eight others \u2014 three Belarusians, a Ukrainian, a Lithuanian, a Polish citizen and two Russians, including Mirgorodsky \u2014 have also been charged, the ABW said. Six of them are located outside Poland.\n\nFurther efforts are underway to identify at least six other suspected members of the group, according to the ABW.\n\nThe development comes a month after an explosion on a railway track in Poland that Warsaw blamed on Ukrainian nationals working as agents for Russian intelligence.\n\nPolish officials say the nation is the target of espionage and hybrid war attacks initiated by Moscow that have grown more serious following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nSince then, Poland has detained dozens of people over suspected sabotage and espionage on its territory on behalf of Russia or Belarus.\n\nSecurity agencies across Europe have accused Russia of staging dozens of attacks and other sabotage incidents on the continent, often using people with passports other than Russian for its activities, such as Bulgarian, Moldovan or Ukrainian.\n\nMoscow has repeatedly denied such allegations, despite a slew of evidence and court cases proving otherwise.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Polish authorities have charged a Russian national in absentia with directing a sabotage and espionage network in Poland on behalf of the Kremlin's intelligence services. <\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Mirgorodsky, 28, is accused of leading an organised criminal group of at least 30 people who carried out sabotage on Polish soil at the behest of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>While residing in Russia, Mirgorodsky allegedly oversaw \"espionage, sabotage, subversion and propaganda activities on behalf of the aforementioned intelligence,\" prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>He used the Telegram messaging app to direct the group and his expertise in cryptocurrency to finance their activities in Poland, according to officials. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//16//37//808x539_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg/" alt=\"People walk through Red Square with the Kremlin in the background in Moscow, 17 October, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/384x256_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/640x427_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/750x500_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/828x552_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/1080x720_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/1200x800_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/16\/37\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6c4acf80-809b-5749-9553-7963b043b69b-9531637.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People walk through Red Square with the Kremlin in the background in Moscow, 17 October, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Mirgorodsky \u2014 a mathematician who is said to live in a town in the Moscow region \u2014 faces five charges, including organising and leading a criminal group, arson attacks, ordering threats against Ukrainians in Poland and financing crime with cryptocurrency. <\/p>\n<p>Polish prosecutors said they had initiated a search for the suspect with an arrest warrant and taken steps to launch an international manhunt through an Interpol red notice.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, 16 members of Mirgorodsky's network were arrested, including a dozen Ukrainians, three Belarusians and one Russian citizen, according to Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW). They were jailed for terms ranging from 13 months to six years.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the group's attempt in 2023 to derail trains transporting weapons and humanitarian aid to Ukraine through Poland was foiled, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the ongoing investigation, eight others \u2014 three Belarusians, a Ukrainian, a Lithuanian, a Polish citizen and two Russians, including Mirgorodsky \u2014 have also been charged, the ABW said. Six of them are located outside Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Further efforts are underway to identify at least six other suspected members of the group, according to the ABW.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//02//russia-cuts-troop-bonuses-and-delays-death-benefits-amid-budget-shortfalls/">Russia cuts troop bonuses and delays death benefits amid budget shortfalls<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//02//third-russian-tanker-attacked-in-the-black-sea-turkey-says/">Third Russian tanker attacked in the Black Sea, Turkey says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The development comes a month after an explosion on a railway track in Poland that Warsaw blamed on Ukrainian nationals working as agents for Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Polish officials say the nation is the target of espionage and hybrid war attacks initiated by Moscow that have grown more serious following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, Poland has detained dozens of people over suspected sabotage and espionage on its territory on behalf of Russia or Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies across Europe have accused Russia of staging dozens of attacks and other sabotage incidents on the continent, often using people with passports other than Russian for its activities, such as Bulgarian, Moldovan or Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly denied such allegations, despite a slew of evidence and court cases proving otherwise.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764688496,"updatedAt":1764694590,"publishedAt":1764694566,"firstPublishedAt":1764694566,"lastPublishedAt":1764694566,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/91\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0e346d22-ef80-5003-b240-c90b6522fccb-9569170.jpg","altText":"FILE: Prime Minister Donald Tusk, second right, visits site of the rail line Mika, that was damaged by sabotage, near Deblin, Poland, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025.","caption":"FILE: Prime Minister Donald Tusk, second right, visits site of the rail line Mika, that was damaged by sabotage, near Deblin, Poland, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"KPRM\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Up to 20 cm of snow expected in some areas, with level 2 avalanche danger in the Tatra Mountains.","summary":"Heavy snowfall, sleet, and negative temperatures affect southern and eastern Poland. Up to 20 cm of snow expected in some areas, with level 2 avalanche danger in the Tatra Mountains.","keySentence":"","url":"poland-braces-for-heavy-snow-and-avalanches","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/21\/poland-braces-for-heavy-snow-and-avalanches","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland's first wave of winter weather has reached the south and east, with heavy snow warnings for Podkarpackie, Ma\u0142opolskie and Lublin.\n\nMeteorologists expect negative temperatures, sleet and steady snowfall through the weekend. In the foothills, temperatures could fall to -7\u00b0C, while parts of Ma\u0142opolska and Podkarpacie may see up to 20 cm of snow. In the Tatra Mountains, rescuers report level 2 avalanche danger and trails covered by fresh, loose snow up to 50 cm. They urge tourists to avoid mountain hikes.\n\nThe Institute of Meteorology and Water Management says the conditions stem from a mix of high pressure over Europe and low pressure over the Baltic and Ligurian Seas.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland's first wave of winter weather has reached the south and east, with heavy snow warnings for Podkarpackie, Ma\u0142opolskie and Lublin. <\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists expect negative temperatures, sleet and steady snowfall through the weekend. In the foothills, temperatures could fall to -7\u00b0C, while parts of Ma\u0142opolska and Podkarpacie may see up to 20 cm of snow. In the Tatra Mountains, rescuers report level 2 avalanche danger and trails covered by fresh, loose snow up to 50 cm. They urge tourists to avoid mountain hikes. <\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management says the conditions stem from a mix of high pressure over Europe and low pressure over the Baltic and Ligurian Seas.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1763739386,"updatedAt":1763746793,"publishedAt":1763746357,"firstPublishedAt":1763746357,"lastPublishedAt":1763746357,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/72\/13\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_083afbfb-4b88-5ac9-b77a-abf834188b57-9557213.jpg","altText":"A lady protects herself from the heavy snowfall under her umbrella, Poland, Nov. 20, 2025","caption":"A lady protects herself from the heavy snowfall under her umbrella, Poland, Nov. 20, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Screenshot from a Telewizja Polska video.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique Mauduit","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":2134,"urlSafeValue":"mauduit","title":"Frederique Mauduit","twitter":null}]},"keywords":[{"id":230,"slug":"poland","urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","titleRaw":"Poland"},{"id":17856,"slug":"extreme-weather","urlSafeValue":"extreme-weather","title":"Extreme weather","titleRaw":"Extreme weather"},{"id":8275,"slug":"snowfall","urlSafeValue":"snowfall","title":"Snowfall","titleRaw":"Snowfall"}],"widgets":[],"related":[{"id":2840509},{"id":2845923},{"id":2850182}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"5QY6VKXCDTI","dailymotionId":"x9u7kqa"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/29\/90\/30\/09\/ED_PYR_2990309_20251121155050.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":11634207,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/29\/90\/30\/09\/SHD_PYR_2990309_20251121155050.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":16280266,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"1080p","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/29\/90\/30\/09\/FHD_PYR_2990309_20251121155050.mp4","editor":"","duration":60000,"filesizeBytes":48450374,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"Telewizja Polska","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"nocomment","urlSafeValue":"nocomment","title":"No Comment","online":1,"url":"\/nocomment"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":230,"urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","url":"\/news\/europe\/poland"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/video\/2025\/11\/21\/poland-braces-for-heavy-snow-and-avalanches","lastModified":1763746357},{"id":2848010,"cid":9554841,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION IN POLAND","daletPyramidId":3360073,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Is Poland awash with Russian disinformation? PM Tusk warns against anti-Ukrainian narratives","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland's PM Donald Tusk warns against anti-Ukrainian narratives","titleListing2":"Is Poland awash with Russian disinformation? PM Tusk warns against anti-Ukrainian narratives","leadin":"The Ministry of Digitalisation has warned against disinformation about the rail explosion and urged people to be cautious about online reports and try to verify information.","summary":"The Ministry of Digitalisation has warned against disinformation about the rail explosion and urged people to be cautious about online reports and try to verify information.","keySentence":"","url":"is-poland-awash-with-russian-disinformation-pm-tusk-warns-against-anti-ukrainian-narrative","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/20\/is-poland-awash-with-russian-disinformation-pm-tusk-warns-against-anti-ukrainian-narrative","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"An explosion on a railway track near the village of Mika on Sunday night damaged part of the line that carries aid into Ukraine, an incident senior figures in the Polish government said was an act of sabotage by Russian intelligence.\n\nPolish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia and known to Polish authorities are suspected of blowing up the railway line.\n\n\"All facts point to a Russian trace,\" Tusk said.\n\nYet European research, analytics and advisory collective Res Futura Data House analysed thousands of online comments about the incident and found that 42% of the people posting blamed Ukrainians for the sabotage.\n\n\"The largest number of comments suggest that people of Ukrainian origin are behind the incident,\" Res Futura wrote in a post on X.\n\n\"These indications are often based on previous events, such as fires at facilities in Poland, vandalism or the presence of Ukrainians near strategic infrastructure,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"It is often hypothesised that these actions were retaliatory or provocative, allegedly to draw Poland into a direct conflict with Russia.\"\n\nOnly 24% of the statements blamed Russians for the attack, while 19% of the comments put the blame on services linked to the Polish state.\n\nAccording to Res Futura, the proliferation of these false claims may be linked to a decline in the effectiveness of the country's Internal Security Agency (ABW).\n\nWhile presenting the latest information to parliament, Tusk warned against the spread of anti-Ukrainian sentiment and disinformation online.\n\n\"It is becoming increasingly easy to whip up anti-Ukrainian resentments for known reasons, as more and more Polish citizens are carrying the burden of the fact that we are hosting such a large number of refugees and migrants,\" he said.\n\n\"From the point of view of Russian interests, the awakening of radically anti-Ukrainian emotions, disinformation of the type that Ukrainian drones are attacking Poland or that Ukrainians are blowing up trains, have a double value for Russian services.\"\n\nThe prime minister also said that it is in Russia's interest to divide the West and divert it from the needs of Ukraine, which is much weaker without international support.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski also published a post on X, advocating solidarity with Ukraine and highlighting the benefits to Russia of spreading disinformation and anti-Ukrainian narratives in Poland.\n\n\"Some people, especially on the right, have never mentally entered the Union and the Union is still some 'them' for them,\" Sikorski wrote.\n\n\"Those who blame Ukraine for Russia's actions in Poland are political saboteurs...Russia spends billions on fuelling such sentiments, on disinformation and propaganda.\"\n\n\"It wants to set a part of public opinion against our neighbours, against the EU and against refugees from Ukraine who have fled to Poland from Russian bombs,\" Sikorski concluded.\n\nDespite appeals from those in power, anti-Ukrainian content is increasingly appearing in the statements of public figures in Poland, blaming the Ukrainians for acts of sabotage and division and falsely suggesting that they are in the interests of the government in Kyiv.\n\nLeader of the far-right Polish Crown Confederation party and MEP Grzegorz Braun called the explosion \"another anti-Polish provocation\" which \"warmongers are trying to use to escalate tensions\" in a post on X.\n\nRoman Fritz, vice-president of the Polish Crown Confederation, said on X that \"the saboteurs traditionally turned out to be Ukrainian citizens.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former Prime Minister Leszek Miller hypothesised online that Ukrainian citizens are very often behind acts of sabotage and that \"no one has more practical experience in detecting, analysing and organising explosions on railway tracks than Ukrainians.\"\n\nMiller did not provide any examples to support his claims.\n\nThe leader of the far-right Confederation, currently the third political force in Poland, S\u0142awomir Mentzen, linked Russian intelligence activities with the migration of Ukrainian citizens to Poland.\n\n\"They let in a Ukrainian who had been convicted of sabotage there and who has now blown up tracks in Poland. We cannot let everyone in. Poland must vet people who want to come to us!\" he posted.\n\nThe Polish Ministry of Digitalisation warned on its website against disinformation about the rail explosion and urged people to be extra cautious about reports appearing online and try to verify information.\n\n\"Disinformation activity conducted in the Russian and Polish infosphere has been identified since Sunday,\" the ministry said.\n\n\"It is intended to redirect responsibility for the sabotage of the Polish railway lines to the Ukrainian side and to discredit the actions taken by the Polish services responsible for security,\" it concluded.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An explosion on a railway track near the village of Mika on Sunday night damaged part of the line that carries aid into Ukraine, an incident senior figures in the Polish government said was an act of sabotage by Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia and known to Polish authorities are suspected of blowing up the railway line.<\/p>\n<p>\"All facts point to a Russian trace,\" Tusk said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet European research, analytics and advisory collective Res Futura Data House analysed thousands of online comments about the incident and found that 42% of the people posting blamed Ukrainians for the sabotage. <\/p>\n<p>\"The largest number of comments suggest that people of Ukrainian origin are behind the incident,\" Res Futura wrote in a post on X. <\/p>\n<p>\"These indications are often based on previous events, such as fires at facilities in Poland, vandalism or the presence of Ukrainians near strategic infrastructure,\" the organisation added. <\/p>\n<p>\"It is often hypothesised that these actions were retaliatory or provocative, allegedly to draw Poland into a direct conflict with Russia.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6664739884393064\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//14//19//808x539_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg/" alt=\"Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the site where the Mika railway line was sabotaged near Deblin, Poland, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/384x256_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/640x427_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/750x500_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/828x552_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1080x720_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1200x800_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1920x1280_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the site of the sabotage of the Mika railway line near Deblin, Poland, Monday, 17 November 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">KPRM\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Only 24% of the statements blamed Russians for the attack, while 19% of the comments put the blame on services linked to the Polish state. <\/p>\n<p>According to Res Futura, the proliferation of these false claims may be linked to a decline in the effectiveness of the country's Internal Security Agency (ABW).<\/p>\n<p>While presenting the latest information to parliament, Tusk warned against the spread of anti-Ukrainian sentiment and disinformation online.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is becoming increasingly easy to whip up anti-Ukrainian resentments for known reasons, as more and more Polish citizens are carrying the burden of the fact that we are hosting such a large number of refugees and migrants,\" he said. <\/p>\n<p>\"From the point of view of Russian interests, the awakening of radically anti-Ukrainian emotions, disinformation of the type that Ukrainian drones are attacking Poland or that Ukrainians are blowing up trains, have a double value for Russian services.\"<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also said that it is in Russia's interest to divide the West and divert it from the needs of Ukraine, which is much weaker without international support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1991161587369910364\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski also published a post on X, advocating solidarity with Ukraine and highlighting the benefits to Russia of spreading disinformation and anti-Ukrainian narratives in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\"Some people, especially on the right, have never mentally entered the Union and the Union is still some 'them' for them,\" Sikorski wrote. <\/p>\n<p>\"Those who blame Ukraine for Russia's actions in Poland are political saboteurs...Russia spends billions on fuelling such sentiments, on disinformation and propaganda.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"It wants to set a part of public opinion against our neighbours, against the EU and against refugees from Ukraine who have fled to Poland from Russian bombs,\" Sikorski concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Despite appeals from those in power, anti-Ukrainian content is increasingly appearing in the statements of public figures in Poland, blaming the Ukrainians for acts of sabotage and division and falsely suggesting that they are in the interests of the government in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the far-right Polish Crown Confederation party and MEP Grzegorz Braun called the explosion \"another anti-Polish provocation\" which \"warmongers are trying to use to escalate tensions\" in a post on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//48//41//808x539_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg/" alt=\"Poland&#x27;s Foreign Minister Rados&#x142;aw Sikorski speaks during press conference in Kyiv, 12 September, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/1920x1280_cmsv2_ed56a492-3626-512c-969d-2702f233e9a4-9554841.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Poland&#x27;s Foreign Minister Rados&#x142;aw Sikorski speaks during press conference in Kyiv, 12 September, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Roman Fritz, vice-president of the Polish Crown Confederation, said on X that \"the saboteurs traditionally turned out to be Ukrainian citizens.\" <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Leszek Miller hypothesised online that Ukrainian citizens are very often behind acts of sabotage and that \"no one has more practical experience in detecting, analysing and organising explosions on railway tracks than Ukrainians.\" <\/p>\n<p>Miller did not provide any examples to support his claims.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the far-right Confederation, currently the third political force in Poland, S\u0142awomir Mentzen, linked Russian intelligence activities with the migration of Ukrainian citizens to Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\"They let in a Ukrainian who had been convicted of sabotage there and who has now blown up tracks in Poland. We cannot let everyone in. Poland must vet people who want to come to us!\" he posted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//09//24//disinformation-report-misrepresented-to-claim-poles-hold-kyiv-responsible-for-drone-incurs/">Disinformation report misrepresented to claim Poles hold Kyiv responsible for drone incursion<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//24//russias-disinformation-toolbox-in-moldova-bot-networks-moscow-church-propaganda-and-vote-b/">Russia/u2019s disinformation toolbox in Moldova: Bot networks, Moscow church propaganda and vote-buying<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Polish Ministry of Digitalisation warned on its website against disinformation about the rail explosion and urged people to be extra cautious about reports appearing online and try to verify information.<\/p>\n<p>\"Disinformation activity conducted in the Russian and Polish infosphere has been identified since Sunday,\" the ministry said. <\/p>\n<p>\"It is intended to redirect responsibility for the sabotage of the Polish railway lines to the Ukrainian side and to discredit the actions taken by the Polish services responsible for security,\" it concluded.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1763574967,"updatedAt":1763628639,"publishedAt":1763616620,"firstPublishedAt":1763616620,"lastPublishedAt":1763628638,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/48\/41\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_222aa4f5-1664-5fda-8444-db38d4896f23-9554841.jpg","altText":"A man waves the Ukrainian and Polish flag during a 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CLOSES LAST RUSSIAN CONSULATE","daletPyramidId":3355831,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland to shut last Russian consulate after railway sabotage, foreign minister says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland to shut last Russian consulate after weekend railway sabotage","titleListing2":"Poland to shut last Russian consulate after railway sabotage, foreign minister says","leadin":"Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the weekend explosion on a line linking Warsaw to the border with\u00a0Ukraine as an \"unprecedented act of sabotage.\"","summary":"Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the weekend explosion on a line linking Warsaw to the border with\u00a0Ukraine as an \"unprecedented act of sabotage.\"","keySentence":"","url":"poland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-after-railway-sabotage-foreign-minister-says","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/19\/poland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-after-railway-sabotage-foreign-minister-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland's Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said on Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said Russian intelligence was suspected of being behind the blast on a railway line in Poland, deemed to be an act of sabotage.\n\nSikorski stated he had repeatedly warned Russia that its diplomatic and consular presence would be reduced further if it did not cease hostile actions against Poland, Polish news agency PAP reported.\n\n\"In connection with this, though it will not be our full response, I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the last Russian consulate in Gdansk,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Moscow would be formally notified within hours.\n\n\"This time it was an act of not only subversion, as happened before, but an act of state terror as its clear intention was to cause human casualties,\" Sikorski said.\n\nThe closure will leave Russia with only its embassy in Warsaw.\n\nPoland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the weekend explosion on a line linking Warsaw to the border with Ukraine as an \"unprecedented act of sabotage.\"\n\nThe blast damaged tracks near Mika, about 100 kilometres southeast of the Polish capital. No one was hurt.\n\nIn a separate incident at the weekend, power lines were destroyed in the area of Pu\u0142awy, about 50 kilometres from Lublin in eastern Poland.\n\nAsked about Sikorski's comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia\u2019s \"relations with Poland have deteriorated completely.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Tusk told the Polish parliament that the two suspects had been collaborating with the Russian secret services for a long time.\n\nHe said their identities were known but could not be revealed to the public because of the ongoing investigation, and that the pair had already left Poland, crossing into Belarus.\n\nWestern officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.\n\nMoscow's goal, Western officials say, is to undermine support for Ukraine, spark fear and divide European societies.\n\nPoland had already ordered the closure of two other Russian consulates. The consulate in Krak\u00f3w was closed earlier this year after Poland determined that a fire that destroyed a shopping centre in Warsaw in 2024 was the result of arson ordered by the Russian intelligence service.\n\nAnd in 2024, Sikorski ordered the closure of the consulate in Pozna\u0144, in response to acts of sabotage, including arson, that he said were sponsored by Moscow.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland's Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said on Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said Russian intelligence was suspected of being behind the blast on a railway line in Poland, deemed to be an act of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Sikorski stated he had repeatedly warned Russia that its diplomatic and consular presence would be reduced further if it did not cease hostile actions against Poland, Polish news agency PAP reported.<\/p>\n<p>\"In connection with this, though it will not be our full response, I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the last Russian consulate in Gdansk,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Moscow would be formally notified within hours.<\/p>\n<p>\"This time it was an act of not only subversion, as happened before, but an act of state terror as its clear intention was to cause human casualties,\" Sikorski said.<\/p>\n<p>The closure will leave Russia with only its embassy in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//43//17//808x539_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg/" alt=\"Poland&#x2019;s Foreign Minister Rados&#x142;aw Sikorski speaking to parliament in Warsaw, 19 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/384x256_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/640x427_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/750x500_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/828x552_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/1080x720_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/1200x800_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/1920x1280_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Poland&#x2019;s Foreign Minister Rados&#x142;aw Sikorski speaking to parliament in Warsaw, 19 November, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Chamber of Deputies of the Polish Parliament\/x.com\/KancelariaSejmu<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the weekend explosion on a line linking Warsaw to the border with Ukraine as an \"unprecedented act of sabotage.\"<\/p>\n<p>The blast damaged tracks near Mika, about 100 kilometres southeast of the Polish capital. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident at the weekend, power lines were destroyed in the area of Pu\u0142awy, about 50 kilometres from Lublin in eastern Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Sikorski's comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia\u2019s \"relations with Poland have deteriorated completely.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//17//polands-prime-minister-calls-weekend-rail-line-explosion-near-warsaw-act-of-sabotage/">Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//18//poland-suggests-russia-is-responsible-for-railway-blast-on-ukraine-delivery-line/">Poland blames Russian intelligence for blast on railway line to Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Tusk told the Polish parliament that the two suspects had been collaborating with the Russian secret services for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>He said their identities were known but could not be revealed to the public because of the ongoing investigation, and that the pair had already left Poland, crossing into Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6664739884393064\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//14//19//808x539_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg/" alt=\"Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D&#x119;blin, 17 November, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/384x256_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/640x427_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/750x500_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/828x552_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1080x720_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1200x800_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/1920x1280_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D&#x119;blin, 17 November, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">KPRM\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Moscow's goal, Western officials say, is to undermine support for Ukraine, spark fear and divide European societies.<\/p>\n<p>Poland had already ordered the closure of two other Russian consulates. The consulate in Krak\u00f3w was closed earlier this year after Poland determined that a fire that destroyed a shopping centre in Warsaw in 2024 was the result of arson ordered by the Russian intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2024, Sikorski ordered the closure of the consulate in Pozna\u0144, in response to acts of sabotage, including arson, that he said were sponsored by Moscow.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1763553284,"updatedAt":1764071400,"publishedAt":1763554220,"firstPublishedAt":1763554220,"lastPublishedAt":1764071400,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ef8bb8b1-05de-5caa-95f9-1c73b926c503-9554317.jpg","altText":"A view of the Russian consulate in the Polish city of Gdansk, 28 September, 2012","caption":"A view of the Russian consulate in the Polish city of Gdansk, 28 September, 2012","captionUrl":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/","captionCredit":"Yanek\/fotopolska.eu\/CC BY-SA 3.0","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/43\/17\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bff37bcb-bf23-5700-bce3-82ddefd952fd-9554317.jpg","altText":"Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski speaking to parliament in Warsaw, 19 November, 2025","caption":"Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski speaking to parliament in Warsaw, 19 November, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Chamber of Deputies of the Polish Parliament\/x.com\/KancelariaSejmu","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1200,"height":800},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/14\/19\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_31307d35-a793-584a-80b1-e751ec8a44d1-9551419.jpg","altText":"Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D\u0119blin, 17 November, 2025","caption":"Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D\u0119blin, 17 November, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"KPRM\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Their identities are known,\" Tusk told lawmakers in the parliament in Warsaw.\n\nThe Polish premier did not disclose the names of the alleged perpetrators. \u00a0\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said evidence suggested that Russian intelligence services appeared to have ordered the sabotage over the weekend.\n\n\"Everything indicates\" that the rail incident over the weekend was \"initiated by the Russian secret services,\" Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski, the spokesperson for Poland's secret services minister, said in comments reported by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).\n\nDobrzy\u0144ski spoke after a meeting of the governmental National Security Committee, which took place on Tuesday morning and included military commanders, heads of intelligence services and a representative of the president.\n\nIn what Tusk called on Monday an \"unprecedented act of sabotage,\" a segment of a rail line linking Poland's capital Warsaw to the border with Ukraine was blown up over the weekend.\n\nAnother segment further south was also damaged in what officials say was also likely sabotage.\n\nPolish prosecutors are investigating \"acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature\" directed against railway infrastructure and committed for the benefit of foreign intelligence.\n\n\"These actions brought about an immediate danger of a land traffic disaster, threatening the lives and health of many people and property on a large scale,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nDefence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Radio Zet on Tuesday that authorities were investigating the planned use of a camera found near the damaged tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route.\n\nHe also said army patrols have been sent to check the safety of railways and other key infrastructure in the east of the country.\n\nIn the first incident, an explosion damaged the tracks near the village of Mika, about 100 kilometres southeast of Warsaw and, in a separate incident, power lines were destroyed in the area of Pu\u0142awy, 50 kilometres from Lublin.\n\nTrains carrying passengers were forced to stop at both locations, but no one was hurt.\n\n\"The explosion was most likely intended to blow up the train,\" Tusk said on Monday in reference to the Mika incident.\n\nThe damage caused at both locations has since been repaired.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that Russian intelligence services orchestrated an explosion on a railway line used to transport aid to Ukraine, carried out by two Ukrainian nationals working as their agents.<\/p>\n<p>\"The identified perpetrators are two Ukrainian citizens who have been cooperating with Russian intelligence services for a long time. Their identities are known,\" Tusk told lawmakers in the parliament in Warsaw. <\/p>\n<p>The Polish premier did not disclose the names of the alleged perpetrators. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said evidence suggested that Russian intelligence services appeared to have ordered the sabotage over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\"Everything indicates\" that the rail incident over the weekend was \"initiated by the Russian secret services,\" Jacek Dobrzy\u0144ski, the spokesperson for Poland's secret services minister, said in comments reported by the Polish Press Agency (PAP).<\/p>\n<p>Dobrzy\u0144ski spoke after a meeting of the governmental National Security Committee, which took place on Tuesday morning and included military commanders, heads of intelligence services and a representative of the president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.604\">\n <div 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In what Tusk called on Monday an \"unprecedented act of sabotage,\" a segment of a rail line linking Poland's capital Warsaw to the border with Ukraine was blown up over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Another segment further south was also damaged in what officials say was also likely sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Polish prosecutors are investigating \"acts of sabotage of a terrorist nature\" directed against railway infrastructure and committed for the benefit of foreign intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\"These actions brought about an immediate danger of a land traffic disaster, threatening the lives and health of many people and property on a large scale,\" prosecutors said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Radio Zet on Tuesday that authorities were investigating the planned use of a camera found near the damaged tracks on the Warsaw-Lublin route.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n 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IN RAILROAD POLAND","daletPyramidId":3332120,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland's Tusk calls rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'","titleListing2":"Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'","leadin":"Meanwhile, Poland's defence chief W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubiesz\u00f3w line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.","summary":"Meanwhile, Poland's defence chief W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubiesz\u00f3w line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.","keySentence":"","url":"polands-prime-minister-calls-weekend-rail-line-explosion-near-warsaw-act-of-sabotage","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/17\/polands-prime-minister-calls-weekend-rail-line-explosion-near-warsaw-act-of-sabotage","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was damaged by a weekend explosion that Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an \"unprecedented act of sabotage\".\n\nTusk, who visited the site on Monday, said the line is \"crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately, the worst fears have been confirmed,\" the Polish leader said in a statement Monday.\n\n\"An act of sabotage has occurred on the Warsaw-Lublin route. An explosion has destroyed the railway track.\"\n\nA train driver on the line between the capital Warsaw and Lublin reported track irregularities around 7:40 am on Sunday.\n\nFurther inspections determined there was damage to a section of track near the village of Mika, about 100 kilometres southeast of Warsaw, officials said.\n\nIt was not immediately clear whether the explosion and damage occurred late on Saturday or early on Sunday.\n\nTwo passengers and several staff members were on the train but no injuries were reported, officials said.\n\nPolish Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday that the army plans to examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubiesz\u00f3w line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.\n\nThe Polish army's Chief of the General Staff, General Wies\u0142aw Kuku\u0142a, said the incident had been deliberate but did not say who he thought was responsible.\n\n\"The adversary has started preparations for war. They are building a certain environment here to bring about an undermining of public confidence in the government, bodies such as the armed forces and the police,\" he said in remarks to Polskie Radio.\n\nGeneral Kuku\u0142a said the unnamed enemy is creating \"conditions that are convenient for the potential conduct of aggression on Polish territory.\"\n\n\"This is a serious situation and therefore requires special monitoring and reliable communication by all parties involved in its clarification,\" the National Security Bureau (BBN) said in a statement.\n\nIn a post on X, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that \"threats to our security are real and growing.\"\n\n\"Europe must urgently boost capacity to protect our skies and our infrastructure,\" she said.\n\nA second train was damaged separately on Sunday and that is under investigation, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski said.\n\nA train on the \u015awinouj\u015bcie to Rzesz\u00f3w route was forced to stop on Sunday night about 50 kilometres from Lublin after the overhead electrical cables that powered the train were damaged, Kierwi\u0144ski said in a statement on Monday.\n\nThere were 475 passengers on board but no injuries were reported.\n\nAuthorities in Poland have detained dozens of people over\u00a0suspected sabotage and espionage since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A railway line linking Warsaw to southeastern Poland was damaged by a weekend explosion that Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an \"unprecedented act of sabotage\".<\/p>\n<p>Tusk, who visited the site on Monday, said the line is \"crucially important for delivering aid to Ukraine.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Unfortunately, the worst fears have been confirmed,\" the Polish leader said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\"An act of sabotage has occurred on the Warsaw-Lublin route. An explosion has destroyed the railway track.\"<\/p>\n<p>A train driver on the line between the capital Warsaw and Lublin reported track irregularities around 7:40 am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Further inspections determined there was damage to a section of track near the village of Mika, about 100 kilometres southeast of Warsaw, officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//13//77//808x539_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg/" alt=\"Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits site of the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D&#x119;blin, 17 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/384x256_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/640x427_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/750x500_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/828x552_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/1080x720_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/1200x800_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/13\/77\/1920x1280_cmsv2_0f5c69ef-7a7b-5920-8f4e-a33299a572f5-9551377.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits site of the rail line that was damaged by sabotage near D&#x119;blin, 17 November, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">KPRM\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether the explosion and damage occurred late on Saturday or early on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Two passengers and several staff members were on the train but no injuries were reported, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Polish Defence Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday that the army plans to examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubiesz\u00f3w line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish army's Chief of the General Staff, General Wies\u0142aw Kuku\u0142a, said the incident had been deliberate but did not say who he thought was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\"The adversary has started preparations for war. 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The creation and residence of renowned Polish architects Oskar and Sofia Hansen is both a showcase and a moving tribute to the \"Open Form\" style.","summary":"Just an hour away from Warsaw, along the River Bug, stands a wooden house, hiding layers of history, complexity and architectural innovation. The creation and residence of renowned Polish architects Oskar and Sofia Hansen is both a showcase and a moving tribute to the \"Open Form\" style.","keySentence":"","url":"home-is-where-the-hansen-is-poland-pays-tribute-to-open-form-architecture-pioneers","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/11\/16\/home-is-where-the-hansen-is-poland-pays-tribute-to-open-form-architecture-pioneers","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Taking your first steps towards the Hansen House, the first thing that meets the eye is an unusual wall. Rather than an airtight barrier, it is permeable, interacting with the surrounding environment, and allowing the outdoors in. A triangular roof, connecting the garden with the house, has a similar message: the dwelling and its environment combine to make a larger, greater whole.\n\nThe idea? \"Open Form\" architecture, a movement pioneered in the 1950s by the Hansens and embodied in their own living space. As the name suggests, the style emphasizes blurred boundaries, a user-centric focus, and a break with the modernist orthodoxy promoted by Le Corbusier.\n\n\"We see different shots of greenery through the gaps, specially designed windows, which form the framework of this space. Oskar Hansen said that Open Form is a frame of reference for looking at the world,\" Tomasz Fudala, curator of the Hansen House tells Euronews.\n\nA poetic idea\n\nThe experimental Hansen House is an outstanding example of architecture included in the Iconic Houses Network list, to which people from all over the world, including Switzerland, Brazil and the University of Venice, travel to every year. It inspires wonder and awards architectural innovation.\n\nOskar Hansen applied his concept of the open form in visual games he played with students while he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw throughout the 1950s. They focused on emphasizing the difference between an open and a closed form, principles which were crucial in all areas of his life: from his architectural work and his home to his personal life and moral convictions.\n\n\"Open form was that good, proper architecture that provides a background for life, does not dominate us, is humanistic. And the closed form? It's easiest to imagine such a static, ancient statue on a pedestal, something centralising, gaining power over us. And then Hansen developed this, he said that the open form is ecology. That is the understanding of nature and our place in it. And the closed form is war, destruction. So it was quite a poetic and general theory, but he actually implemented it throughout his life in the form of various games. But also in his own home,\" Tomasz Fudala explains.\n\nArchitecture without a budget\n\nEverything in the Hansens' home was created by the independent work of its inhabitants, who took the passion they felt for their work into their personal living space. As the curator of their home tells Euronews, this place is particularly interesting because it shows that you don't need a lot of money to build. The house was built from recycled materials, demolition materials and found boards, again showcasing the innovative nature of the movement Oskar Hansen espoused.\n\n\"The greatest works of architecture can be created from found wood. From recycled materials. From poor materials. In fact, here the builders had no budget. And it's a shock for many people who come here, but such a positive one, because they think: wow, that means you can design, draw yourself something, build something, but it's not all based on big money, so it's great,\" says Tomasz Fudala.\n\n\"Here the Hansens show us that you can make an outstanding work of art actually very cheaply, with the power of imagination, creativity, and, well, great talent,\" he adds.\n\nZofia and Oskar Hansen\n\nZofia Hansen, Oskar's wife, was also an architect. Her distinctive mark is also felt throughout the walls of the couple's home. Their relationship was one of collaboration and building upon the ideas of the other. The two met in 1950 while studying architecture in Warsaw.\n\n\"Zofia Hansen worked in the circle of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, that is, the circle of modernists, architects who were interested in ensuring that housing estates were humanely built, that there was greenery, that children could play freely and that cars did not invade them,\" Fudala explains.\n\n\"He, in turn, had such an opportunity to go to France after the war and met Pablo Picasso there. He met and worked with Pierre Jeanneret, which is Le Corbusier's cousin. He had the opportunity to see what the West looked like at the time when the new system, the Polish People's Republic, real socialism, was being installed in Poland,\" says the curator.\n\nBlurring the boundary\n\nWe meet Wanda Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka, a neighbour of the Hansens for 40 years, in Szumin, the village about an hour away from Warsaw where the couple lived. She recounts tales of Oskar Hansen's sense of humour, and visits she made to the house for tea and chats with the couple.\n\nShe sits down on a bench in front of their house, a bench placed there on purpose to harken back to older Polish habits of welcoming guests. The space is remarkably modern, but doesn't fail to take inspiration from the past.\n\n\"Here, there has always been a bench of some kind, because the farmers used this road to go and cultivate the fields, and it was usually here that they stopped, chatted, reported to each other, told jokes, on their way back after work. Just like people. Mr. Oskar Hansen decided that the bench could not be abolished. He built a bench, which would continue to serve a similar role, but not only. It worked out nicely, because people who stopped by would talk, and inside the Hansens would sit at a table on the terrace, listening to one another. Hansen could hear what the farmers were talking about. The farmers heard what the Hansens were discussing,\" Wanda explains.\n\nIn this way, the Open Form movement meant that the couple opened up their lives to the surrounding community, blurring personal boundaries as well as architectural ones.\n\nThe house in Szumin began to be built between 1968 and 1970 and was never actually completed. The Hansens created it continuously, in collaboration with the village community, with their friends, and with their children.\n\nWanda gets up from her bench and invites us inside. She points out to us how colorfully the wall is constructed, the one that first catches the eye.\n\n\"From the outside it was grey with a white stripe, here [inside] it is an absolute negative - it is white with a grey stripe. This is an indication that we are already inside,\" she explains.\n\nLiving house and working at night\n\nWanda Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka takes us on a tour of the Hansen space room by room. Throughout the property, there are quite a few elements that are practical in use and at the same time act as teaching apparatuses. For example, a table that extends through the interior to the exterior. All its planks are two-coloured and can be arranged as desired.\n\n\"Once, when I came to them for tea, Mr Oskar suggested that I arrange the colours on the table in such a way as to make it nice and pleasant for me. Another time he asked me to express the mood I was in today with this. So these were quite difficult games. But very interesting\", recalls Wanda.\n\nThe space was made to be interacted and played with, by the Hansens themselves, as well as by the surrounding community.\n\nFor the Hansens, colours always played an important role. \"Above all this white that appears at various points. It had an guiding role, telling people which way to go and so on,\" the neighbor explains.\n\nWe go up to the first floor with her to see Oskar Hansen's studio. It's a wonderful, bright, spacious room with a panoramic window.\n\n\"Oskar spent his days either in the orchard, tending to his pigeons, or in the garage. On the other hand, in the evening the light would come on and he would stay here until dawn. So I think he did all his creative work, his designs and other things at night,\" Wanda says with a smile.\n\nNow the room is quite empty, but as a neighbor of the family reveals to us, there were once bookshelves filled to the brim in the studio.\n\nBirds, cars, and wine\n\nWanda leads us back downstairs. She shows us the toilet with its glass ceiling. Apparently Sophie Hansen liked this place in autumn because the leaves covered it from above.\n\nNext to it we see another studio where Oskar Hansen made furniture, as well as his aviary and the garage where he kept his beloved car, of which only the license plate remains.\n\nWe look at the garden. Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka recalls that the crop of this small orchard was Hansen's homemade wine. It was not good, but no one ever told the landlord that.\n\n\"I don't know if you know, but all these old trees, they were all planted by the Hansens and each of these trees has a name. Here somewhere grows Igor, Alvar, I don't know exactly which one. And on the other side there's a linden tree called Zofia and an oak called Oskar,\" she says, pointing along the property.\n\nNot an open-air museum\n\nThe Hansen House is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, which wants to keep it in the spirit of Open Form, i.e. meaning that it will continue to remain fluid, never stagnant or declared \"complete\". Breaking with tradition, it is meant to be an experimental space flowing with life.\n\n\"This is not intended to serve as an open-air museum, but rather showcase the house through various activities. Workshops are held there, various meeting, students come on trips, and the house remains alive. It is a museum, where you can actually enter the real toilet of its owners, see how they ate, see their personal objects, but also perform the games they did, while doing some kind of artistic or architectural task,\" says the curator of the Hansen House.\n\n\"The Hansens' son, Igor Hansen, said he wanted viewers to \"live\" in the house for a little while, to feel comfortable there. To sit down, take a close look at everything and sort of blend into this whole situation that his parents had designed,\" Fudala adds.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Taking your first steps towards the Hansen House, the first thing that meets the eye is an unusual wall. Rather than an airtight barrier, it is permeable, interacting with the surrounding environment, and allowing the outdoors in. A triangular roof, connecting the garden with the house, has a similar message: the dwelling and its environment combine to make a larger, greater whole. <\/p>\n<p>The idea? \"Open Form\" architecture, a movement pioneered in the 1950s by the Hansens and embodied in their own living space. As the name suggests, the style emphasizes blurred boundaries, a user-centric focus, and a break with the modernist orthodoxy promoted by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//09//16//le-corbusier-100-years-on-celebrating-the-architects-most-iconic-buildings/">Le Corbusier<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\"We see different shots of greenery through the gaps, specially designed windows, which form the framework of this space. Oskar Hansen said that Open Form is a frame of reference for looking at the world,\" Tomasz Fudala, curator of the Hansen House tells Euronews.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"The Hansen House in the village of Szumin, about an hour outside of Warsaw. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_5bdf4e01-6c18-5cfb-b5c0-b668cfcc91a6-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Hansen House in the village of Szumin, about an hour outside of Warsaw. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews \/ Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>A poetic idea<\/h2>\n<p>The experimental Hansen House is an outstanding example of architecture included in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.iconichouses.org//houses//oskar-hansen-house/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>the Iconic Houses Network<\/strong><\/a> list, to which people from all over the world, including Switzerland, Brazil and the University of Venice, travel to every year. It inspires wonder and awards architectural innovation. <\/p>\n<p>Oskar Hansen applied his concept of the open form in visual games he played with students while he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw throughout the 1950s. They focused on emphasizing the difference between an open and a closed form, principles which were crucial in all areas of his life: from his architectural work and his home to his personal life and moral convictions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.562\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"Oskar Hansen at the AICA congress in Wroclaw, 1975.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x465_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x607_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x674_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1079_cmsv2_4a64d940-b591-56ea-886a-27289430f882-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Oskar Hansen at the AICA congress in Wroclaw, 1975.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Open form was that good, proper architecture that provides a background for life, does not dominate us, is humanistic. And the closed form? It's easiest to imagine such a static, ancient statue on a pedestal, something centralising, gaining power over us. And then Hansen developed this, he said that the open form is ecology. That is the understanding of nature and our place in it. And the closed form is war, destruction. So it was quite a poetic and general theory, but he actually implemented it throughout his life in the form of various games. But also in his own home,\" Tomasz Fudala explains.<\/p>\n<h2>Architecture without a budget<\/h2>\n<p>Everything in the Hansens' home was created by the independent work of its inhabitants, who took the passion they felt for their work into their personal living space. As the curator of their home tells Euronews, this place is particularly interesting because it shows that you don't need a lot of money to build. The house was built from recycled materials, demolition materials and found boards, again showcasing the innovative nature of the movement Oskar Hansen espoused. <\/p>\n<p>\"The greatest works of architecture can be created from found wood. From recycled materials. From poor materials. In fact, here the builders had no budget. And it's a shock for many people who come here, but such a positive one, because they think: wow, that means you can design, draw yourself something, build something, but it's not all based on big money, so it's great,\" says Tomasz Fudala.<\/p>\n<p>\"Here the Hansens show us that you can make an outstanding work of art actually very cheaply, with the power of imagination, creativity, and, well, great talent,\" he adds. <\/p>\n<h2>Zofia and Oskar Hansen<\/h2>\n<p>Zofia Hansen, Oskar's wife, was also an architect. Her distinctive mark is also felt throughout the walls of the couple's home. Their relationship was one of collaboration and building upon the ideas of the other. The two met in 1950 while studying architecture in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>\"Zofia Hansen worked in the circle of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, that is, the circle of modernists, architects who were interested in ensuring that housing estates were humanely built, that there was greenery, that children could play freely and that cars did not invade them,\" Fudala explains.<\/p>\n<p>\"He, in turn, had such an opportunity to go to France after the war and met Pablo Picasso there. He met and worked with Pierre Jeanneret, which is Le Corbusier's cousin. He had the opportunity to see what the West looked like at the time when the new system, the Polish People's Republic, real socialism, was being installed in Poland,\" says the curator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6611570247933884\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x535_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"Zofia and Oskar Hansen.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x254_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x423_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x496_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x547_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x714_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x793_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1269_cmsv2_f4a3e693-0d84-50e2-9955-ee574b248a09-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Zofia and Oskar Hansen.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">SARP Warszawa<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Blurring the boundary<\/h2>\n<p>We meet Wanda Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka, a neighbour of the Hansens for 40 years, in Szumin, the village about an hour away from Warsaw where the couple lived. She recounts tales of Oskar Hansen's sense of humour, and visits she made to the house for tea and chats with the couple.<\/p>\n<p>She sits down on a bench in front of their house, a bench placed there on purpose to harken back to older Polish habits of welcoming guests. The space is remarkably modern, but doesn't fail to take inspiration from the past. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"The Hansens&#x27; neighbour, Wanda Chr&#xF3;&#x15B;cicka, in front of their house in the village of Szumin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_7da73e65-3c34-5bb3-aeaa-9f60cebecdc4-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Hansens&#x27; neighbour, Wanda Chr&#xF3;&#x15B;cicka, in front of their house in the village of Szumin.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews \/ Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Here, there has always been a bench of some kind, because the farmers used this road to go and cultivate the fields, and it was usually here that they stopped, chatted, reported to each other, told jokes, on their way back after work. Just like people. Mr. Oskar Hansen decided that the bench could not be abolished. He built a bench, which would continue to serve a similar role, but not only. It worked out nicely, because people who stopped by would talk, and inside the Hansens would sit at a table on the terrace, listening to one another. Hansen could hear what the farmers were talking about. The farmers heard what the Hansens were discussing,\" Wanda explains. <\/p>\n<p>In this way, the Open Form movement meant that the couple opened up their lives to the surrounding community, blurring personal boundaries as well as architectural ones. <\/p>\n<p>The house in Szumin began to be built between 1968 and 1970 and was never actually completed. The Hansens created it continuously, in collaboration with the village community, with their friends, and with their children.<\/p>\n<p>Wanda gets up from her bench and invites us inside. She points out to us how colorfully the wall is constructed, the one that first catches the eye. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"The wall in the Hansen House in Szumin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_010252fe-339d-5852-9a6c-ef7e75e1de8e-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The wall in the Hansen House in Szumin.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews \/ Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"From the outside it was grey with a white stripe, here [inside] it is an absolute negative - it is white with a grey stripe. This is an indication that we are already inside,\" she explains.<\/p>\n<h2>Living house and working at night<\/h2>\n<p>Wanda Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka takes us on a tour of the Hansen space room by room. Throughout the property, there are quite a few elements that are practical in use and at the same time act as teaching apparatuses. For example, a table that extends through the interior to the exterior. All its planks are two-coloured and can be arranged as desired.<\/p>\n<p>\"Once, when I came to them for tea, Mr Oskar suggested that I arrange the colours on the table in such a way as to make it nice and pleasant for me. Another time he asked me to express the mood I was in today with this. So these were quite difficult games. But very interesting\", recalls Wanda.<\/p>\n<p>The space was made to be interacted and played with, by the Hansens themselves, as well as by the surrounding community. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.562\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"A table in the Hansen home in Szumin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x465_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x607_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x674_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1079_cmsv2_b0e9e361-48bf-5fa7-b5d7-16df453e9381-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A table in the Hansen home in Szumin.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews \/ Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For the Hansens, colours always played an important role. \"Above all this white that appears at various points. It had an guiding role, telling people which way to go and so on,\" the neighbor explains. <\/p>\n<p>We go up to the first floor with her to see Oskar Hansen's studio. It's a wonderful, bright, spacious room with a panoramic window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x539_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"Oskar Hansen&#x27;s studio in his home in Szumin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6c1fe928-e44b-5ba5-85f3-c202024ca67c-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Oskar Hansen&#x27;s studio in his home in Szumin.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Oskar spent his days either in the orchard, tending to his pigeons, or in the garage. On the other hand, in the evening the light would come on and he would stay here until dawn. So I think he did all his creative work, his designs and other things at night,\" Wanda says with a smile. <\/p>\n<p>Now the room is quite empty, but as a neighbor of the family reveals to us, there were once bookshelves filled to the brim in the studio.<\/p>\n<h2>Birds, cars, and wine<\/h2>\n<p>Wanda leads us back downstairs. She shows us the toilet with its glass ceiling. Apparently Sophie Hansen liked this place in autumn because the leaves covered it from above.<\/p>\n<p>Next to it we see another studio where Oskar Hansen made furniture, as well as his aviary and the garage where he kept his beloved car, of which only the license plate remains.<\/p>\n<p>We look at the garden. Chr\u00f3\u015bcicka recalls that the crop of this small orchard was Hansen's homemade wine. It was not good, but no one ever told the landlord that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//43//76//78//808x454_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg/" alt=\"Wanda, a neighbour of the Hansens, shows the vines from which Oskar Hansen made wine.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_54a40e30-6d33-58ab-93b9-bf911641c07a-9437678.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wanda, a neighbour of the Hansens, shows the vines from which Oskar Hansen made wine.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews \/ Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"I don't know if you know, but all these old trees, they were all planted by the Hansens and each of these trees has a name. Here somewhere grows Igor, Alvar, I don't know exactly which one. And on the other side there's a linden tree called Zofia and an oak called Oskar,\" she says, pointing along the property. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Not an open-air museum<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Hansen House is owned by the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////artmuseum.pl//szumin/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Museum of Modern Art<\/strong><\/a> in Warsaw, which wants to keep it in the spirit of Open Form, i.e. meaning that it will continue to remain fluid, never stagnant or declared \"complete\". Breaking with tradition, it is meant to be an experimental space flowing with life. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is not intended to serve as an open-air museum, but rather showcase the house through various activities. Workshops are held there, various meeting, students come on trips, and the house remains alive. It is a museum, where you can actually enter the real toilet of its owners, see how they ate, see their personal objects, but also perform the games they did, while doing some kind of artistic or architectural task,\" says the curator of the Hansen House.<\/p>\n<p>\"The Hansens' son, Igor Hansen, said he wanted viewers to \"live\" in the house for a little while, to feel comfortable there. To sit down, take a close look at everything and sort of blend into this whole situation that his parents had designed,\" Fudala adds. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760348277,"updatedAt":1763294769,"publishedAt":1763277207,"firstPublishedAt":1763277207,"lastPublishedAt":1763294768,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/43\/76\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c199327b-a9d7-5ad7-bb37-9f0b6252d96c-9437678.jpg","altText":"Sophie and Oskar Hansen.","caption":"Sophie and Oskar Hansen.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":824,"height":425}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3278,"urlSafeValue":"burzec","title":"Marcelina Burzec","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":3234,"urlSafeValue":"glogowski","title":"Glogowski 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BELARUS BORDER REINFORCEMENT","daletPyramidId":3311296,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland implements new security measures at Belarus border while re-opening two crossings","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Poland implements new security measures at border with Belarus","titleListing2":"Poland implements new security measures at Belarus border while re-opening two crossings","leadin":"Poland has long accused Belarus of luring asylum seekers and then pushing them en masse towards the border in an effort to destabilise the country.","summary":"Poland has long accused Belarus of luring asylum seekers and then pushing them en masse towards the border in an effort to destabilise the country.","keySentence":"","url":"poland-implements-new-security-measures-at-belarus-border-while-re-opening-two-crossings","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/14\/poland-implements-new-security-measures-at-belarus-border-while-re-opening-two-crossings","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland is implementing additional security measures at its border with Belarus to fend off hybrid threats, the Polish government said on Friday.\n\nAn additional mesh fence will be erected at the border in Podlaskie province, which will run alongside the road and the metal barrier at the border.\n\nThe new fence will help the Border Guard detain migrants who manage to cross the first barrier.\n\nThe structure will be four metres high and will be accompanied by barbed wire running across and along the fence. Materials for its construction are already being delivered to the border.\n\nThe fence will also be equipped with thermal-imaging cameras, which are placed on 10-metre-long poles, Brigadier General S\u0142awomir Klekotka, Commander of the Podlaskie Border Guard Unit, confirmed.\n\nThe decision to bolster security measures comes as Poland announced it will reopen two border crossings with Belarus that it had closed in September in response to large-scale military exercises conducted by Belarusian and Russian forces.\n\n\"We have sealed [the border] in such a way that the risk of illegal crossings has been reduced to an absolute minimum,\" Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a press conference on Friday.\n\n\"And this is why I decided, in consultation with local authorities and entrepreneurs from Podlaskie, to open these border crossings,\" Tusk noted, adding that the re-opening of the borders will be closely monitored.\n\nEarlier in October, Tusk said Poland would delay the re-opening of the two border crossings until at least mid November in solidarity with Lithuania amid a heightened security threat from Russia.\n\nThe decision to re-open the border was aimed to lift restrictions on the flow of traffic.\n\n\"I hope that everyone on both sides of the border understands that these crossings can serve ordinary people and that politics should not brutally interfere in the lives of people living near the border every time,\" Tusk said.\n\nThe first border crossing to re-open will be the Bobrowniki\u2013Bierestowica border crossing. It will operate with restrictions for freight traffic, limited to vehicles registered in EU member states, EFTA countries that are part of the European Economic Area, and the Swiss Confederation.\n\nCertain restrictions will also apply for passenger traffic, including coaches.\n\nThe second crossing, Ku\u017anica Bia\u0142ostocka\u2013Bruzgi, will reopen with restrictions for passenger traffic only, with bus traffic excluded.\n\nPoland has long accused Belarus of luring asylum seekers and then pushing them en masse towards the border in an effort to destabilise the country.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland is implementing additional security measures at its border with Belarus to fend off hybrid threats, the Polish government said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>An additional mesh fence will be erected at the border in Podlaskie province, which will run alongside the road and the metal barrier at the border. <\/p>\n<p>The new fence will help the Border Guard detain migrants who manage to cross the first barrier.<\/p>\n<p>The structure will be four metres high and will be accompanied by barbed wire running across and along the fence. Materials for its construction are already being delivered to the border. <\/p>\n<p>The fence will also be equipped with thermal-imaging cameras, which are placed on 10-metre-long poles, Brigadier General S\u0142awomir Klekotka, Commander of the Podlaskie Border Guard Unit, confirmed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5611866501854141\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//54//89//92//808x454_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg/" alt=\"Additional security measures will be installed on the Polish-Belarusian border in the Podlaskie province. 13 Nov., 2025.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/384x215_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/640x359_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/750x421_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/828x465_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/1080x606_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/1200x673_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/89\/92\/1920x1077_cmsv2_b532f3b3-6464-5cb7-a207-26c3bb751482-9548992.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Additional security measures will be installed on the Polish-Belarusian border in the Podlaskie province. 13 Nov., 2025.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">EBU<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The decision to bolster security measures comes as Poland announced it will reopen two border crossings with Belarus that it had <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//23//poland-to-reopen-border-with-belarus-after-nearly-two-week-closure-pm-tusk-says/">closed in September<\/a> in response to large-scale military exercises conducted by Belarusian and Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have sealed [the border] in such a way that the risk of illegal crossings has been reduced to an absolute minimum,\" Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a press conference on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\"And this is why I decided, in consultation with local authorities and entrepreneurs from Podlaskie, to open these border crossings,\" Tusk noted, adding that the re-opening of the borders will be closely monitored. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//04//16//two-bodies-believed-to-be-migrants-retrieved-from-poland-belarus-border-river/">Two bodies believed to be migrants retrieved from river on Poland-Belarus border<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//09//18//eu-closely-monitors-possible-trade-impact-of-poland-belarus-border-closure/">EU 'closely' monitors possible trade impact of Poland-Belarus border closure<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Earlier in October, Tusk said Poland would delay the re-opening of the two border crossings until at least mid November in solidarity with Lithuania amid a heightened security threat from Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The decision to re-open the border was aimed to lift restrictions on the flow of traffic. <\/p>\n<p>\"I hope that everyone on both sides of the border understands that these crossings can serve ordinary people and that politics should not brutally interfere in the lives of people living near the border every time,\" Tusk said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div 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<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The first border crossing to re-open will be the Bobrowniki\u2013Bierestowica border crossing. 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POLISH MP WANTS GTA VI NOW","daletPyramidId":3261023,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'It's a huge scandal': GTA VI delay row reaches Polish parliament","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"'It's a huge scandal': Polish MP hits out over delay for GTA VI ","titleListing2":"'It's a huge scandal': GTA VI delay row reaches Polish parliament","leadin":"A Polish MP has made the headlines by voicing 'concern' about the latest delay of Grand Theft Auto 6, arguably the most anticipated video game of the decade.","summary":"A Polish MP has made the headlines by voicing 'concern' about the latest delay of Grand Theft Auto 6, arguably the most anticipated video game of the decade.","keySentence":"","url":"its-a-huge-scandal-gta-vi-delay-row-reaches-polish-parliament","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/11\/10\/its-a-huge-scandal-gta-vi-delay-row-reaches-polish-parliament","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Was it a joke? Maybe. Yet, it really happened.\n\nGTA VI's new delay is no longer just an issue for the fans of the popular video game series; it has now landed in parliament. To be precise, the Polish parliament.\n\nDuring a recent session, a member of the KWiN\u00a0opposition party (Confederation Liberty and Independence) took the floor to speak out against the new postponement.\n\n\"As part of my parliamentary statement, I wanted to inform you about a very disturbing matter. An hour ago, Rockstar Games announced that the release of GTA VI will be delayed until next year. This is a huge scandal\", said Witold Tumanowicz.\n\n\"Honestly, if people don't take to the streets after something like this, I don't know what will happen,\"\u00a0the MP added jokingly in his speech at the Polish lower house last week.\n\nSome Polish media slammed the 38-year-old's stunt as an \"absurd scene\", while social media users took it with a bit more humour.\n\n\"Finally, some important topics are being discussed\", was one of the comments on X.\n\nAnother MP, from the Law and Justice Party, Pawe\u0142 Szrot, backed his colleague and doubled down: \"I respect such statements, Representative. I hope the add-on for Bannerlord (another role-playing video game) doesn't get delayed any further.\"\n\nWhat is GTA, and what happened with the new release?\n\nProduced by Rockstar Games, GTA (Grand Theft Auto) is a hugely successful gangster-themed video game series, famous for its violence, strong and coarse language, but also for its well-crafted characters and realism - so much so that it's become a classic pop icon.\n\nOver the years, players of the game have enjoyed settings that have ranged from 1980s Miami to backdrops inspired by Los Angeles' early-2000 ghettos.\n\nThe very first title was released in 1997, then six more followed. The franchise is understood to have sold over 450 million copies.\n\nGTA VI has already suffered not one, but two delays.\n\nInitially scheduled for Autumn 2025, the latest announcement says it will only be on sale on 19th November 2026.\n\nThe previous chapter - GTA V - hit the shelves 12 years ago, which explains the current sky-high hype and anticipation for the new title.\u00a0\n\nRockstar justified the delay with a succinct statement, saying the extra months will allow developers \"to finish the game with the level of polish you have come to expect and deserve.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Was it a joke? Maybe. Yet, it really happened.<\/p>\n<p>GTA VI's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//07//extra-time-needed-grand-theft-auto-6-delayed-again-as-rockstar-games-upsets-fans/">new delay<\/a> is no longer just an issue for the fans of the popular video game series; it has now landed in parliament. To be precise, the Polish parliament. <\/p>\n<p>During a recent session, a member of the KWiN opposition party (Confederation Liberty and Independence) took the floor to speak out against the new postponement.<\/p>\n<p>\"As part of my parliamentary statement, I wanted to inform you about a very disturbing matter. An hour ago, Rockstar Games announced that the release of GTA VI will be delayed until next year. This is a huge scandal\", said Witold Tumanowicz.<\/p>\n<p>\"Honestly, if people don't take to the streets after something like this, I don't know what will happen,\" the MP added jokingly in his speech at the Polish lower house last week.<\/p>\n<p>Some Polish media <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////wpolityce.pl//kultura/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">slammed <\/a>the 38-year-old's stunt as an \"absurd scene\", while social media users took it with a bit more humour.<\/p>\n<p>\"Finally, some important topics are being discussed\", was one of the comments on X.<\/p>\n<p>Another MP, from the Law and Justice Party, Pawe\u0142 Szrot, backed his colleague and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////x.com//PSzrot//status//1986833048722080068/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">doubled down<\/a>: \"I respect such statements, Representative. I hope the add-on for Bannerlord (another role-playing video game) doesn't get delayed any further.\"<\/p>\n<h2>What is GTA, and what happened with the new release?<\/h2>\n<p>Produced by Rockstar Games, GTA (Grand Theft Auto) is a hugely successful gangster-themed video game series, famous for its violence, strong and coarse language, but also for its well-crafted characters and realism - so much so that it's become a classic pop icon.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, players of the game have enjoyed settings that have ranged from 1980s Miami to backdrops inspired by Los Angeles' early-2000 ghettos.<\/p>\n<p>The very first title was released in 1997, then six more followed. The franchise is understood to have sold over<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////ir.take2games.com//static-files//4caa8ce3-9cd2-45d5-b267-593e2391801f?\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> 450 million copies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.778\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//54//34//31//808x626_cmsv2_af9c9c4b-383b-5700-8cfb-88ce0b11835a-9543431.jpg/" alt=\"A &#x22;Grand Theft Auto V&#x22; billboard is displayed at Figueroa Hotel on Sept. 10, 2013, in Los Angeles\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/54\/34\/31\/384x299_cmsv2_af9c9c4b-383b-5700-8cfb-88ce0b11835a-9543431.jpg 384w, 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VIDEO SHOT IN POLAND","daletPyramidId":3226122,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Rosal\u00eda\u2019s Warsaw wonderland: Can you unlock the hidden messages in 'Berghain' video?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Rosal\u00eda in Warsaw: What are the cryptic clues in 'Berghain' video? ","titleListing2":"Rosal\u00eda\u2019s dreamlike tale of freedom: 'Berghain' video filmed in Warsaw contains lots of hidden messages ","leadin":"Evocative, symbolic, and visually arresting - Rosal\u00eda\u2019s latest release, 'Berghain' is no ordinary music video. Written in English, Spanish, and German, Marcelina Burzec says the operatic track and parade of avant-garde fashion invites viewers to unravel its intricate layers of meaning.","summary":"Evocative, symbolic, and visually arresting - Rosal\u00eda\u2019s latest release, 'Berghain' is no ordinary music video. Written in English, Spanish, and German, Marcelina Burzec says the operatic track and parade of avant-garde fashion invites viewers to unravel its intricate layers of meaning.","keySentence":"","url":"rosalias-warsaw-wonderland-can-you-unlock-the-hidden-messages-in-berghain-video","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/11\/06\/rosalias-warsaw-wonderland-can-you-unlock-the-hidden-messages-in-berghain-video","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"'Berghain' is not merely a music video - it is pure cinema, and a love letter to and from the Polish capital.\n\nDirected by Nicol\u00e1s M\u00e9ndez, a Latin Grammy winner for Best Short Form Music Video, the piece dazzles with its aesthetic precision and emotional depth.\n\nFilmed in Warsaw, it sees Rosal\u00eda gliding through the city aboard a Solaris bus and visiting the Warsaw Zoo. Yet, these surface-level scenes merely hint at deeper themes: freedom, purity, and personal metamorphosis. The video weaves in visual echoes of Polish cinema, art, and even religiosity.\n\nBerghain serves as a prelude to Rosal\u00eda\u2019s forthcoming album, Lux, and reflects a profound spiritual journey.\n\nFreedom and an emotional odyssey\n\nThe title of the song references Berlin\u2019s legendary night club Berghain - a symbol of openness, transcendence, and liberation, yet also of ritual. The club, often called a cathedral of electronic music, mirrors the dual nature of spirituality and sensuality. This interplay between sacred and profane runs through the entire video, underscoring the artist\u2019s exploration of emotional release and rebirth.\n\nHeartbreak and healing\n\nAt its core, the narrative portrays a woman devastated by lost love. In the opening scenes, Rosal\u00eda clutches a golden pendant - a token of devotion. Later, during a medical examination, she undergoes a heart test, with a poster titled \u201cConduction System of the Heart\u201d (in Polish) looming behind her.\n\nSoon after, she visits a jeweller, as if attempting to mend her broken heart. Behind her hangs Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s 'Lady with an Ermine' one of Poland\u2019s most treasured artworks, housed in Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Czartoryski Museum. Its symbolism of purity, renewal, and transformation reflects the overarching narrative of Lux \u2014 an odyssey toward light and rebirth.\n\nA cinematic homage: Three Colors: Blue\n\nThe video concludes with Rosal\u00eda reclaiming her heart after dipping a sugar cube into her coffee \u2014 a poetic act of quiet catharsis. She then transforms into a dove, the eternal emblem of freedom, hope, and love. This metamorphosis alludes to Three Colors: Blue, the masterpiece by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, starring Juliette Binoche.\n\nKie\u015blowski once described a pivotal scene in Three Colors: Blue where Binoche\u2019s character, Julie, encounters a man who loves her, as music swells mysteriously - later revealed to come from a street musician\u2019s flute. \u201cWe did something similar in Three Colors: White,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere Karol plays the harmonica in the subway. At that moment, Julie rejects the man, and he leaves, leaving her utterly alone.\u201d\n\nRosal\u00eda\u2019s transformation, then, mirrors this cinematic solitude - an embrace of freedom through loss.\n\nA grateful Warsaw - and its delighted fans\n\nBefore the video\u2019s release, Rosal\u00eda teased her Warsaw adventure on Instagram, sharing snapshots from the city, including a visit to the beloved Rusa\u0142ka milk bar. The posts amassed nearly a million likes and a flood of admiration from Polish fans, who expressed both pride and excitement.\n\nLux arrives November 7th\n\nThe release of Lux, the artist\u2019s fourth album, is scheduled for November 7th. It features 18 tracks recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. You\u2019ll hear contributions from Bj\u00f6rk, Carminho, Estrella Morente and Silvia P\u00e9rez Cruz, as well as the choirs Escolania de Montserrat and Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0.\n\nAfter listening to and watching Berghain one can\u2019t help but await Lux with heightened anticipation - a promise of transcendence through sound, vision, and emotion. Can you feel it already?\n\n","htmlText":"<p>'Berghain' is not merely a music video - it is pure cinema, and a love letter to and from the Polish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Nicol\u00e1s M\u00e9ndez, a Latin Grammy winner for Best Short Form Music Video, the piece dazzles with its aesthetic precision and emotional depth. <\/p>\n<p>Filmed in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//08//10//a-garden-to-remember-the-hidden-stories-of-warsaws-lazienki-park/">Warsaw, it sees Rosal\u00eda gliding through the city aboard a Solaris bus and visiting the Warsaw Zoo. Yet, these surface-level scenes merely hint at deeper themes: freedom, purity, and personal metamorphosis. The video weaves in visual echoes of Polish cinema, art, and even religiosity.<\/p>\n<p><em>Berghain<\/em> serves as a prelude to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//28//rosalia-releases-berghain-her-collaboration-with-bjork-and-first-preview-of-her-new-album-/">Rosal/u00eda/u2019s forthcoming album, <em>Lux<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and reflects a profound spiritual journey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//08//spanish-pop-star-rosalias-world-tour-items-auctioned-to-support-young-artists/">Spanish pop star Rosal\u00eda\u2019s World Tour items auctioned to support young artists<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Freedom and an emotional odyssey<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The title of the song references Berlin\u2019s legendary night club Berghain - a symbol of openness, transcendence, and liberation, yet also of ritual. The club, often called a cathedral of electronic music, mirrors the dual nature of spirituality and sensuality. This interplay between sacred and profane runs through the entire video, underscoring the artist\u2019s exploration of emotional release and rebirth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.602\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//65//99//808x487_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg/" alt=\"Screenshot from Rosal&#xED;a&#x2019;s video for Berghain.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/384x231_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/640x385_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/750x452_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/828x498_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1080x650_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1200x722_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1920x1156_cmsv2_cf80a07b-0f9a-581a-b709-642d7a5a824d-9536599.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Screenshot from Rosal&#xED;a&#x2019;s video for Berghain.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Youtube \/ @rosalia<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Heartbreak and healing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>At its core, the narrative portrays a woman devastated by lost love. In the opening scenes, Rosal\u00eda clutches a golden pendant - a token of devotion. Later, during a medical examination, she undergoes a heart test, with a poster titled \u201cConduction System of the Heart\u201d (in Polish) looming behind her.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, she visits a jeweller, as if attempting to mend her broken heart. Behind her hangs Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s 'Lady with an Ermine' one of Poland\u2019s most treasured artworks, housed in Krak\u00f3w\u2019s Czartoryski Museum. Its symbolism of purity, renewal, and transformation reflects the overarching narrative of <em>Lux<\/em> \u2014 an odyssey toward light and rebirth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.606\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//65//99//808x490_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg/" alt=\"Screenshot from Rosal&#xED;a&#x2019;s video for Berghain.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/384x233_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/640x388_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/750x455_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/828x502_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1080x654_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1200x727_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1920x1164_cmsv2_702814e4-7b4b-51c0-a82f-3ca974ed40e0-9536599.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Screenshot from Rosal&#xED;a&#x2019;s video for Berghain.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\"> Youtube \/ @rosalia<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>A cinematic homage: <em>Three Colors: Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The video concludes with Rosal\u00eda reclaiming her heart after dipping a sugar cube into her coffee \u2014 a poetic act of quiet catharsis. She then transforms into a dove, the eternal emblem of freedom, hope, and love. This metamorphosis alludes to <em>Three Colors: Blue<\/em>, the masterpiece by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, starring <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//12//a-rare-interview-with-juliette-binoche-the-new-president-of-the-european-film-academy/">Juliette Binoche<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5637408568443051\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//65//99//808x456_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg/" alt=\"Screenshot from the video for Berghain. It references a scene from Krzysztof Kie&#x15B;lowski&#x2019;s film &#x27;Three Colours: Blue&#x27;.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/384x216_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/640x361_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/750x423_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/828x467_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1080x609_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1200x676_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1920x1082_cmsv2_f820093d-6477-529f-a12f-135bff531f83-9536599.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Screenshot from the video for Berghain. It references a scene from Krzysztof Kie&#x15B;lowski&#x2019;s film &#x27;Three Colours: Blue&#x27;.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Youtube \/ @rosalia<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Kie\u015blowski <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//watch?v=9-k6sIN-2K4\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">once described<\/a> a pivotal scene in <em>Three Colors: Blue<\/em> where Binoche\u2019s character, Julie, encounters a man who loves her, as music swells mysteriously - later revealed to come from a street musician\u2019s flute. \u201cWe did something similar in <em>Three Colors: White,<\/em>\u201d he said, \u201cwhere Karol plays the harmonica in the subway. At that moment, Julie rejects the man, and he leaves, leaving her utterly alone.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rosal\u00eda\u2019s transformation, then, mirrors this cinematic solitude - an embrace of freedom through loss.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A grateful Warsaw - and its delighted fans<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Before the video\u2019s release, Rosal\u00eda teased her Warsaw adventure on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//rosalia.vt//p//DPzIp8UjMso//?hl=en\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, sharing snapshots from the city, including a visit to the beloved Rusa\u0142ka milk bar. The posts amassed nearly a million likes and a flood of admiration from Polish fans, who expressed both pride and excitement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7407407407407407\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//65//99//808x599_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg/" alt=\"Rosal&#xED;a at the Rusa&#x142;ka milk bar in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/384x284_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/640x474_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/750x556_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/828x613_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1080x800_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1200x889_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1920x1422_cmsv2_056df15e-e377-5cc3-8272-845d8466972b-9536599.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rosal&#xED;a at the Rusa&#x142;ka milk bar in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Instagram \/ @rosalia.vt<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7490636704119851\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//65//99//808x603_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg/" alt=\"Rosal&#xED;a at the Rusa&#x142;ka milk bar in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/384x288_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/640x479_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/750x562_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/828x620_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1080x809_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1200x899_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/1920x1438_cmsv2_fd1f8b41-8ff5-522c-bc5f-6d07725a5fb2-9536599.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rosal&#xED;a at the Rusa&#x142;ka milk bar in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Instagram \/ rosalia.vt<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><em>Lux<\/em> <strong>arrives November 7th<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The release of <em>Lux<\/em>, the artist\u2019s fourth album, is scheduled for November 7th. It features 18 tracks recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. You\u2019ll hear contributions from Bj\u00f6rk, Carminho, Estrella Morente and Silvia P\u00e9rez Cruz, as well as the choirs Escolania de Montserrat and Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to and watching <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//watch?v=htQBS2Ikz6c\%22 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><em>Berghain<\/em><\/a>one can\u2019t help but await <em>Lux<\/em> with heightened anticipation - a promise of transcendence through sound, vision, and emotion. Can you feel it already?<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1762441446,"updatedAt":1762445056,"publishedAt":1762445050,"firstPublishedAt":1762445050,"lastPublishedAt":1762445050,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/65\/99\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9aeed2ff-971f-5256-8b29-5aadcc4bad7a-9536599.jpg","altText":"Screenshot from Rosal\u00eda\u2019s music video for \u2018Berghain\u2019.","caption":"Screenshot from Rosal\u00eda\u2019s music video for the song Berghain.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Youtube \/ @rosalia","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1204}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3278,"urlSafeValue":"burzec","title":"Marcelina Burzec","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":230,"slug":"poland","urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","titleRaw":"Poland"},{"id":11646,"slug":"music","urlSafeValue":"music","title":"Music","titleRaw":"Music"},{"id":9471,"slug":"pop-music","urlSafeValue":"pop-music","title":"Pop music","titleRaw":"Pop music"},{"id":28368,"slug":"rosalia","urlSafeValue":"rosalia","title":"Rosalia","titleRaw":"Rosalia"},{"id":9493,"slug":"contemporary-music","urlSafeValue":"contemporary-music","title":"Contemporary music","titleRaw":"Contemporary music"},{"id":9489,"slug":"electronic-music","urlSafeValue":"electronic-music","title":"Electronic music","titleRaw":"Electronic music"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":5},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2389494},{"id":2829389},{"id":2851507}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":230,"urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","url":"\/news\/europe\/poland"},"town":{"id":2211,"urlSafeValue":"warsaw","title":"Warsaw"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":{"id":3,"slug":"openai","isActive":1},"localisation":{"producerLanguage":"pl","storyId":9536599,"online":1},"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":1,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/culture\/2025\/11\/06\/rosalias-warsaw-wonderland-can-you-unlock-the-hidden-messages-in-berghain-video","lastModified":1762445050},{"id":2842618,"cid":9538077,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"HEWELIUSZ","daletPyramidId":3216834,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'Hevelius': The story of Poland's greatest maritime tragedy heads for Netflix debut ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"High seas drama: Poland's deadly 'Hevelius' shipwreck set for Netflix ","titleListing2":"Behind the scenes at 'Hevelius': One of Poland's most 'difficult and demanding' cinematography projects readies for Netflix debut ","leadin":"'Hevelius' is a new Netflix series based on the story of Poland's worst maritime tragedy, when 56 people died in 1993. The highly anticipated Polish-made production has already been described as one of the 'most difficult and demanding cinematographic projects' to be staged in Poland's history.","summary":"'Hevelius' is a new Netflix series based on the story of Poland's worst maritime tragedy, when 56 people died in 1993. The highly anticipated Polish-made production has already been described as one of the 'most difficult and demanding cinematographic projects' to be staged in Poland's history.","keySentence":"","url":"hevelius-the-story-of-polands-greatest-maritime-tragedy-heads-for-netflix-debut","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/11\/06\/hevelius-the-story-of-polands-greatest-maritime-tragedy-heads-for-netflix-debut","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On the night of 13 January 1993, the ferry 'Jan Heweliusz' sailed from the port of \u015awinouj\u015bcie in Poland to Ystad in Sweden two hours late.\n\nDifficult weather conditions had been reported prior to the voyage and the crew knew they were in for a difficult night at sea. No one, however, could have predicted that the challenging crossing would turn out to be the biggest peacetime maritime tragedy in the country's history.\n\nA total of 56 people died, including 36 passengers and 20 crew members. Only nine people survived.\n\nThis event, still shrouded in mystery, is the subject of the Polish Netflix series 'Hevelius'.\n\nThe story is told from the perspective of the show's two main characters: the survivor of the tragedy, struggling with guilt, and the grieving widow who lost her husband in the disaster.\n\nSet in the realities of communist Poland, the series paints a picture of a tense legal system in which, in the end, the ship's captain is the only person to blame - even though there was a more complex background to the event, and shared responsibility. By the time the ferry set sail in January 1993, it had already had 30 major incidents on its record, including a partial sinking just over a decade earlier.\n\n\"A big part of the series is dedicated to that disaster and shows it, but also an even bigger part is really about what happened afterwards. It tells the story of the people who stayed ashore, who lost loved ones, also the people who survived the disaster. It is not only a drama. It is not only a disaster film, but it is also simply a social drama. And a courtroom drama,\" explained Jan Holoubek, director of the series, in an interview with Euronews Culture.\n\nAlthough it is a fictional series, the creators have devoted a great deal of work to reflect the reality of the events as closely as possible.\n\n\"Kasper Bajon, who wrote the script, went through dozens of files, talked to very many people who were affected by the disaster. So there is a great deal of truth here,\" adds Holoubek.\n\nThe production is notable for its grandeur, with a wide range of practical, special and computer effects used.\n\n\"The project is already one of the most difficult and demanding projects I am aware of so far in the history of Polish cinematography. Mainly because the scale of the number of fully digital shots, especially the shots of the Hevelius, the ferry sailing at night in a full storm, were very difficult shots and such a film having more than 60 fully digital shots I have not seen. In addition, there were about a thousand shots in total throughout the series, which required various types of special effects involvement, heavy or light, so in that respect it is certainly a unique series,\" explained special effects supervisor Krzysztof Hrycak.\n\nThe scale of the project reflects the dynamic development of the Polish film, television and post-production industry\n\n\"I think we are moving in a very good direction as Poland, because at least we, from production to production, are making films or series that have an increasing share of special effects, which from the point of view of complexity for us is quite important, but also generally, qualitatively these productions are getting better and better, well realised and with more and more panache,\" adds Hrycak.\n\nProjects such as Hevelius show how wide a talent pool Polish cinema has today\n\n\"No less than 95 per cent of this series was made in Poland, by Polish hands, and it seems to me that the industry is absolutely competitive on a European or global scale. We have no complexes here,\" says Holoubek.\n\nHevelius is now available on Netflix.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>On the night of 13 January 1993, the ferry 'Jan Heweliusz' sailed from the port of \u015awinouj\u015bcie in Poland to Ystad in Sweden two hours late.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult weather conditions had been reported prior to the voyage and the crew knew they were in for a difficult night at sea. No one, however, could have predicted that the challenging crossing would turn out to be the biggest peacetime maritime tragedy in the country's history.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 56 people died, including 36 passengers and 20 crew members. Only nine people survived.<\/p>\n<p>This event, still shrouded in mystery, is the subject of the Polish Netflix series 'Hevelius'. <\/p>\n<p>The story is told from the perspective of the show's two main characters: the survivor of the tragedy, struggling with guilt, and the grieving widow who lost her husband in the disaster.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//05//30//the-netflix-supremacy-what-were-the-most-streamed-shows-of-2024-2025/">The Netflix supremacy: What were the most-streamed shows of 2024-2025?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Set in the realities of communist Poland, the series paints a picture of a tense legal system in which, in the end, the ship's captain is the only person to blame - even though there was a more complex background to the event, and shared responsibility. By the time the ferry set sail in January 1993, it had already had 30 major incidents on its record, including a partial sinking just over a decade earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\"A big part of the series is dedicated to that disaster and shows it, but also an even bigger part is really about what happened afterwards. It tells the story of the people who stayed ashore, who lost loved ones, also the people who survived the disaster. It is not only a drama. It is not only a disaster film, but it is also simply a social drama. And a courtroom drama,\" explained Jan Holoubek, director of the series, in an interview with Euronews Culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//07//34//808x454_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg/" alt=\"Jan Holoubek, director of the Netflix series &#x27;Hevelius&#x27;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/384x216_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/640x360_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/750x422_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/828x466_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1080x608_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1200x675_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1920x1080_cmsv2_41b696e9-ce9e-5fe6-a294-fe51e87f8bd2-9530734.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jan Holoubek, director of the Netflix series &#x27;Hevelius&#x27;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews\/Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Although it is a fictional series, the creators have devoted a great deal of work to reflect the reality of the events as closely as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\"Kasper Bajon, who wrote the script, went through dozens of files, talked to very many people who were affected by the disaster. So there is a great deal of truth here,\" adds Holoubek.<\/p>\n<p>The production is notable for its grandeur, with a wide range of practical, special and computer effects used.<\/p>\n<p>\"The project is already one of the most difficult and demanding projects I am aware of so far in the history of Polish cinematography. Mainly because the scale of the number of fully digital shots, especially the shots of the Hevelius, the ferry sailing at night in a full storm, were very difficult shots and such a film having more than 60 fully digital shots I have not seen. In addition, there were about a thousand shots in total throughout the series, which required various types of special effects involvement, heavy or light, so in that respect it is certainly a unique series,\" explained special effects supervisor Krzysztof Hrycak. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//53//07//34//808x454_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg/" alt=\"Post-production of the series &#x27;Hevelius&#x27;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/384x216_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/640x360_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/750x422_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/828x466_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1080x608_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1200x675_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/1920x1080_cmsv2_af82af52-64e1-531b-9c01-8740a0da3a7d-9530734.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Post-production of the series &#x27;Hevelius&#x27;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews\/Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The scale of the project reflects the dynamic development of the Polish film, television and post-production industry<\/p>\n<p>\"I think we are moving in a very good direction as Poland, because at least we, from production to production, are making films or series that have an increasing share of special effects, which from the point of view of complexity for us is quite important, but also generally, qualitatively these productions are getting better and better, well realised and with more and more panache,\" adds Hrycak.<\/p>\n<p>Projects such as Hevelius show how wide a talent pool Polish cinema has today<\/p>\n<p>\"No less than 95 per cent of this series was made in Poland, by Polish hands, and it seems to me that the industry is absolutely competitive on a European or global scale. We have no complexes here,\" says Holoubek. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hevelius<\/em> is now available on Netflix.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1762361740,"updatedAt":1762437112,"publishedAt":1762437077,"firstPublishedAt":1762499657,"lastPublishedAt":1762437111,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/53\/07\/34\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2cc11d89-6d3b-5ca3-8524-a97c22bff138-9530734.jpg","altText":"Trailer for the film \"Hevelius\"","caption":"Trailer for the film \"Hevelius\"","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Courtesy: Netflix.com","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3264,"urlSafeValue":"skiba","title":"Katarzyna-Maria Skiba","twitter":null},{"id":3472,"urlSafeValue":"jeremiah.fisayo@euronews.com","title":"Jeremiah 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AIRPLANE INTERCEPTION","daletPyramidId":3145405,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Polish air force intercepts Russian Il-20 surveillance plane flying over Baltic Sea","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Polish air force intercepts Russian surveillance plane over Baltic Sea","titleListing2":"Polish #MiG-29 fighters intercepted a #Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea. The machine with its transponder switched off did not violate Polish airspace.","leadin":"The air force said that while the Russian plane did not violate Polish airspace, it did not have a flight plan and the transponder enabling it to be tracked was switched off.","summary":"The air force said that while the Russian plane did not violate Polish airspace, it did not have a flight plan and the transponder enabling it to be tracked was switched off.","keySentence":"","url":"polish-air-force-intercepts-russian-il-20-surveillance-plane-flying-over-baltic-sea","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/10\/29\/polish-air-force-intercepts-russian-il-20-surveillance-plane-flying-over-baltic-sea","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Two MiG-29 fighter jets from the Polish Air Force intercepted a Russian aircraft which was performing a flight over the Baltic Sea.\n\nThe Operational Command of the Armed Forces identified the aircraft as a Il-20 and said it was flying in international airspace.\n\nThe Il-20 is a Soviet-era reconnaissance aircraft used for reconnaissance and electronic listening missions.\n\nThe air force said that while the Russian plane did not violate Polish airspace, it did not have a flight plan and the transponder enabling it to be tracked was switched off.\n\n\"Thanks to the high combat readiness, the professionalism of the pilots and the efficient functioning of the air defence system, the operations were carried out quickly, effectively and safely,\" Operational Command said in a statement.\n\nThe command noted that the Polish Armed Forces remain in constant readiness to respond to any threats and protect Poland's territorial integrity.\n\nBoth NATO and the European Union have been on high alert following a string of airspace violations, thought to be from Russia, in recent weeks.\n\nNATO issued a warning to Moscow at the end of September, saying it would use all means to defend against any further breaches of its airspace after the downing of Russian drones over Poland and Estonia's report of an intrusion by Russian fighter jets.\n\nThe 10 September incident in Poland was the first direct encounter between NATO and Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022.\n\nEstonia said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered its airspace for 12 minutes on Friday without authorisation, a charge that the Kremlin has rejected.\n\nThe incidents caused widespread consternation among leaders across Europe, raising questions about the alliance's preparedness against growing Russian aggression.\n\n\"Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions,\" the alliance said in a statement.\n\nFollowing the violation of Polish airspace, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced\u00a0the formation of the Eastern Sentry programme, which aims to deter further Russian incursions and show solidarity with Poland.\n\n\"We see drones violating our airspace. Whether it was intentional or not, it is unacceptable. The allies have expressed full solidarity with Poland. It is crucial to counter aggression and defend every member of the Alliance,\" the NATO chief said.\n\nIncidents in Denmark and Norway\n\nMeanwhile on 23 September, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Russian involvement could not be ruled out after Copenhagen airport was\u00a0forced to close for several hours the previous night\u00a0following the sighting of a number of drones.\n\n\"It says something about the times we live in and what we as a society must be prepared to deal with,\" Frederiksen said.\n\nThe Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the allegations \"unfounded.\"\n\nAlso on 22 September, Oslo airport in Norway was closed for three hours after possible drone sightings were reported.\n\nRussia allegedly violated Norway's airspace three times in 2025, according to the government, but it remains unclear whether Monday's incident was deliberate or the result of navigation errors.\n\n\"Regardless of the cause, this is not acceptable,\" Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Two MiG-29 fighter jets from the Polish Air Force intercepted a Russian aircraft which was performing a flight over the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Operational Command of the Armed Forces identified the aircraft as a Il-20 and said it was flying in international airspace.<\/p>\n<p>The Il-20 is a Soviet-era reconnaissance aircraft used for reconnaissance and electronic listening missions.<\/p>\n<p>The air force said that while the Russian plane did not violate Polish airspace, it did not have a flight plan and the transponder enabling it to be tracked was switched off.<\/p>\n<p>\"Thanks to the high combat readiness, the professionalism of the pilots and the efficient functioning of the air defence system, the operations were carried out quickly, effectively and safely,\" Operational Command said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The command noted that the Polish Armed Forces remain in constant readiness to respond to any threats and protect Poland's territorial 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Both NATO and the European Union have been on high alert following a string of airspace violations, thought to be from Russia, in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>NATO issued a warning to Moscow at the end of September, saying it would use all means to defend against any further breaches of its airspace after the downing of Russian drones over Poland and Estonia's report of an intrusion by Russian fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 September incident in Poland was the first direct encounter between NATO and Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in early 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Estonia said three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets entered its airspace for 12 minutes on Friday without authorisation, a charge that the Kremlin has rejected.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents caused widespread consternation among leaders across Europe, raising questions about the alliance's preparedness against growing Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//23//two-russian-military-aircraft-enter-nato-member-lithuanias-airspace-military-says/">Two Russian military aircraft enter NATO member Lithuania's airspace, military says<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//21//nato-annual-nuclear-exercise-steadfast-noon-winds-down-in-the-netherlands/">NATO annual nuclear exercise 'Steadfast Noon' winds down in the Netherlands<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Russia should be in no doubt: NATO and Allies will employ, in accordance with international law, all necessary military and non-military tools to defend ourselves and deter all threats from all directions,\" the alliance said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Following the violation of Polish airspace, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//09//12//nato-secretary-general-announces-eastern-sentry-initiative-for-the-alliances-eastern-flank/">the formation of the Eastern Sentry programme<\/strong><\/a>, which aims to deter further Russian incursions and show solidarity with Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\"We see drones violating our airspace. Whether it was intentional or not, it is unacceptable. The allies have expressed full solidarity with Poland. It is crucial to counter aggression and defend every member of the Alliance,\" the NATO chief said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Incidents in Denmark and Norway<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile on 23 September, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Russian involvement could not be ruled out after Copenhagen airport was <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//22//flights-halted-after-drone-sightings-at-copenhagen-airport/">forced to close for several hours the previous night<\/strong><\/a> following the sighting of a number of drones.<\/p>\n<p>\"It says something about the times we live in and what we as a society must be prepared to deal with,\" Frederiksen said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called the allegations \"unfounded.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6655\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//52//97//37//808x539_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg/" alt=\"People walk outside Aalborg Airport in Denmark, 25 September, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/384x256_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/640x426_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/750x499_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/828x551_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/1080x719_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/1200x799_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/97\/37\/1920x1278_cmsv2_8fc5032a-465e-559a-8cf0-ae7a3c70b5f0-9529737.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People walk outside Aalborg Airport in Denmark, 25 September, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Also on 22 September, Oslo airport in Norway was closed for three hours after possible drone sightings were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russia allegedly violated Norway's airspace three times in 2025, according to the government, but it remains unclear whether Monday's incident was deliberate or the result of navigation errors.<\/p>\n<p>\"Regardless of the cause, this is not acceptable,\" Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1761737752,"updatedAt":1761754214,"publishedAt":1761746128,"firstPublishedAt":1761746128,"lastPublishedAt":1761754214,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/96\/03\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_18008804-bc66-5dc2-8adb-82b1c0575074-9529603.jpg","altText":"Mig-29 aircraft of the Polish Air Force during a military parade to mark Polish Army Day in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015. 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Many are called, but only a few, a very select few, are chosen.\n\nAuditions for this, the 19th edition, began a little over two weeks ago when eleven of the highest-rated pianists lined up for the finals.\n\nGoing for gold\n\nAccompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Boreyko, each of them performed one of Chopin's two piano concertos and Polonaise-Fantasy, Op. 61.\n\nOriginally more than 640 young artists from all over the world applied to compete. The largest group of players were from China, followed by Poland and Japan.\n\nWhen the music stopped, the 17-member jury, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, awarded the gold medal to Lu and a cheque for \u20ac60,000. The silver medal was awarded to Canada's Kevin Chen with bronze going to Zitong Wang of China.\n\nLocal favourite, Piotr Alexewicz finished joint fifth with Vincent Ong of Malaysia.\n\n\"This is a dream come true, I am very touched,\" said Lu after the verdict was announced. \"I would also like to thank all Chopin lovers around the world,\" - added the laureate.\n\nSpecial awards\n\nSpecial prizes were also presented to several performers.\n\nThe best performance of mazurkas award went to Yehuda Prokopowicz from Poland while the prize for the best performance of a ballad went to Adam Ka\u0142du\u0144ski; China's Tianyao Lyu took home the special prize for the best performance of a concerto.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>It's easy to understand why 27-year-old Eric Lu hailed his victory at Poland's International Fryderyk Chopin Competition as a \"dream come true.\" <\/p>\n<p>The event, often described in classical circles as the Olympics of piano playing, takes place once every five years. Many are called, but only a few, a very select few, are chosen. <\/p>\n<p>Auditions for this, the 19th edition, began a little over two weeks ago when eleven of the highest-rated pianists lined up for the finals. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//14//war-and-chopin-inside-the-photographic-worlds-of-wojciech-grzedzinski/">War and Chopin: Inside the photographic worlds of Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//01//24//poland-has-acquired-a-rare-unpublished-manuscript-by-frederic-chopin-after-lengthy-negotia/">Poland purchases 'rare' unpublished manuscript by Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin after lengthy negotiations<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Going for gold<\/h2>\n<p>Accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Boreyko, each of them performed one of Chopin's two piano concertos and Polonaise-Fantasy, Op. 61.<\/p>\n<p>Originally more than 640 young artists from all over the world applied to compete. The largest group of players were from China, followed by Poland and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>When the music stopped, the 17-member jury, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, awarded the gold medal to Lu and a cheque for \u20ac60,000. The silver medal was awarded to Canada's Kevin Chen with bronze going to Zitong Wang of China.<\/p>\n<p>Local favourite, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//17//local-hero-hopes-piotr-alexewicz-makes-final-of-polands-chopin-piano-competition/">Piotr Alexewicz<\/strong><\/a> finished joint fifth with Vincent Ong of Malaysia. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is a dream come true, I am very touched,\" said Lu after the verdict was announced. \"I would also like to thank all Chopin lovers around the world,\" - added the laureate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//GFTHzzFA-TQ/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Special awards<\/h2>\n<p>Special prizes were also presented to several performers. <\/p>\n<p>The best performance of mazurkas award went to Yehuda Prokopowicz from Poland while the prize for the best performance of a ballad went to Adam Ka\u0142du\u0144ski; China's Tianyao Lyu took home the special prize for the best performance of a concerto.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1761022380,"updatedAt":1761134752,"publishedAt":1761134747,"firstPublishedAt":1761134747,"lastPublishedAt":1761134747,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/03\/03\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d5b3272e-46b4-57a7-89c7-03299e2fa56d-9520303.jpg","altText":"Eric Lu, winner of the 19th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition.","caption":"Eric Lu, winner of the 19th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. 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Further operational activities are continuing,\" he said.\n\nThe goal of their actions, Polish prosecutors said, was to intimidate populations and destabilise EU countries supporting Ukraine.\n\nTomasz Siemoniak, Poland's minister coordinating special services, also wrote on social media that the detainees were arrested on suspicion of \"conducting reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure, preparing resources for sabotage and directly carrying out attacks\".\n\nSince Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has detained dozens of people over\u00a0suspected sabotage and espionage.\n\nLast month, prosecutors in Poland's Baltic neighbour Lithuania said that they had uncovered and detained a\u00a0Russia-linked network of suspects\u00a0alleged to have planned and organised arson attacks in various European countries.\n\nWestern officials have accused Russia and its proxies of being behind dozens of incidents across Europe since the\u00a0invasion of Ukraine\u00a0three years ago.\n\nThe suspected attacks range from stuffing car exhausts with expanding foam in Germany to a plot to\u00a0plant explosives in cargo planes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Authorities in Poland have arrested eight people across the country on suspicion of preparing acts of sabotage, a spokesperson for the National Prosecutor's Office has said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have accused one of the detainees, who is a Ukrainian national, of being involved in plans to send explosive materials to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Two other Ukrainians, aged 21 and 24, are also thought to have been involved in the plot, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Russian intelligence services. <\/p>\n<p>The pair were detained in Romania, the Romanian authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested in Romania after depositing two parcels containing improvised incendiary devices at an international courier company in Bucharest, according to the Romanian authorities. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//42//58//95//808x539_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg/" alt=\"Poland&#x27;s Prime Minister Donald Tusk addresses parliament in Warsaw, 11 June, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/384x256_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/640x427_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/750x500_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/828x552_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/1080x720_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/1200x800_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/42\/58\/95\/1920x1280_cmsv2_d3181b16-4fcc-55aa-b8fd-1a5a5d8c015f-9425895.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Poland&#x27;s Prime Minister Donald Tusk addresses parliament in Warsaw, 11 June, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Prime Minister Donald Tusk posted about the detention of eight people on X on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\"The case is ongoing. Further operational activities are continuing,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of their actions, Polish prosecutors said, was to intimidate populations and destabilise EU countries supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland's minister coordinating special services, also wrote on social media that the detainees were arrested on suspicion of \"conducting reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure, preparing resources for sabotage and directly carrying out attacks\". <\/p>\n<p>Since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has detained dozens of people over suspected sabotage and espionage. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, prosecutors in Poland's Baltic neighbour Lithuania said that they had uncovered and detained a Russia-linked network of suspects alleged to have planned and organised arson attacks in various European countries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div 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ago.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected attacks range from stuffing car exhausts with expanding foam in Germany to a plot to plant explosives in cargo planes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1761044565,"updatedAt":1761052110,"publishedAt":1761050813,"firstPublishedAt":1761050813,"lastPublishedAt":1761050813,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/52\/09\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_80388ac2-0eac-554d-b2c2-6e3066ce17cb-9520902.jpg","altText":"A polish police vehicle drives past a check point close to the border with Belarus in Kuznica, 16 November, 2021","caption":"A polish police vehicle drives past a check point close to the border with Belarus in Kuznica, 16 November, 2021","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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Chopin Competition Finalists","daletPyramidId":3030482,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Local hero hopes: Piotr Alexewicz makes final of Poland's Chopin piano competition","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Polish pianist carries home hopes into Chopin competition final ","titleListing2":"And then there were 11... Finalists revealed for the Chopin Piano Competition ","leadin":"The jury of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, have decided on 11 pianists for the final round of competition with local hopes resting on the playing hands of Poland's Piotr Alexewicz.","summary":"The jury of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, have decided on 11 pianists for the final round of competition with local hopes resting on the playing hands of Poland's Piotr Alexewicz.","keySentence":"","url":"local-hero-hopes-piotr-alexewicz-makes-final-of-polands-chopin-piano-competition","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/10\/17\/local-hero-hopes-piotr-alexewicz-makes-final-of-polands-chopin-piano-competition","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The classical musical world now knows the names of the finalists of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and among them is home favourite Piotr Alexewicz, the only Pole to make the cut.\n\nLaunched in 1927, the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is one of the oldest musical events of its kind in the world and, one of the most prestigious awards for pianists.\n\nSince its inception, the contest's repertoire has consisted exclusively of legendary composer's music.\n\nChopin's Eleven\n\nAlso qualified for the final stage of the auditions are: Kevin Chen from Canada, David Khrikuli from Georgia, Shiori Kuwahara from Japan, Tianyou Li from China, Eric Lu from the United States, Tianyao Lyu from China, Vincent Ong from Malaysia, Miyu Shindo from Japan, Zitong Wang from China and William Yang from the United States.\n\nThe finalists will begin with a performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61, followed by a performance of a selected piano concerto by Fryderyk Chopin with the accompaniment of the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Andrzej Boreyka: in E minor, Op. 11 or in F minor, Op. 21.\n\nThe winner of the 19th Chopin Competition will receive a cash prize of \u20ac60,000 and a gold medal.\n\nThe final auditions will take place from 18-20 October in sessions starting at 6pm each day.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The classical musical world now knows the names of the finalists of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and among them is home favourite Piotr Alexewicz, the only Pole to make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1927, the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is one of the oldest musical events of its kind in the world and, one of the most prestigious awards for pianists. <\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, the contest's repertoire has consisted exclusively of legendary composer's music. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//14//war-and-chopin-inside-the-photographic-worlds-of-wojciech-grzedzinski/">War and Chopin: Inside the photographic worlds of Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Chopin's Eleven<\/h2>\n<p>Also qualified for the final stage of the auditions are: Kevin Chen from Canada, David Khrikuli from Georgia, Shiori Kuwahara from Japan, Tianyou Li from China, Eric Lu from the United States, Tianyao Lyu from China, Vincent Ong from Malaysia, Miyu Shindo from Japan, Zitong Wang from China and William Yang from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists will begin with a performance of the Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61, followed by a performance of a selected piano concerto by Fryderyk Chopin with the accompaniment of the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Andrzej Boreyka: in E minor, Op. 11 or in F minor, Op. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the 19th Chopin Competition will receive a cash prize of \u20ac60,000 and a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The final auditions will take place from 18-20 October in sessions starting at 6pm each day.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760690473,"updatedAt":1760699439,"publishedAt":1760699385,"firstPublishedAt":1760699385,"lastPublishedAt":1760699385,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/50\/38\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3b27dcaf-79eb-53a0-9b74-5cda91d6a9a4-9515038.jpg","altText":"Peter Alexevich","caption":"Peter Alexevich","captionUrl":"https:\/\/www.chopincompetition.pl\/pl\/media?type=photos","captionCredit":"Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3332,"urlSafeValue":"wakulska","title":"Weronika 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EXTRADITION NORDSTREAM","daletPyramidId":3031080,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Polish court blocks extradition to Germany of suspect in Nord Stream pipeline attack","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Polish court blocks extradition of suspect in Nord Stream attack","titleListing2":"Polish court blocks extradition to Germany of suspect in Nord Stream pipeline attack","leadin":"Undersea explosions on 26 September 2022, severely damaged the two pipelines. The incident added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources.","summary":"Undersea explosions on 26 September 2022, severely damaged the two pipelines. The incident added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources.","keySentence":"","url":"polish-court-considers-extradition-to-germany-of-suspect-in-nord-stream-pipeline-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/10\/17\/polish-court-considers-extradition-to-germany-of-suspect-in-nord-stream-pipeline-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Polish court blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines on Friday, a handover that Poland's prime minister has said wasn't in his country's interest.\n\nThe 46-year-old suspect, who has been identified only as Volodymyr Z. in line with local privacy rules, was arrested near Warsaw on a German warrant on 30 September.\n\nGerman prosecutors have described him as a trained diver and allege that he was part of a group that placed explosives on the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm three years ago.\n\nThe Warsaw District Court rejected his extradition on Friday and ordered his immediate release.\n\nLawyer Tymoteusz Paprocki said ahead of the hearing that \"my client doesn\u2019t admit guilt, he didn\u2019t commit any crime against Germany and he doesn\u2019t understand why these charges were made by the German side.\"\n\nHe said he also would argue that no Ukrainian should be charged with any action directed against Russia.\n\nPoland, whose successive governments have been staunchly anti-Russian, has a history of opposition to the pipelines.\n\nPrime Minister Donald Tusk has said it would not be in Poland's interest to hand over the suspect.\n\nPipelines damaged\n\nUndersea explosions on 26 September 2022, severely damaged the pipelines.\n\nThe damage added to tensions over the\u00a0war in Ukraine\u00a0as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources following the Kremlin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nThe explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was inaugurated in 2011 and carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia\u00a0cut off supplies at the end of August 2022.\n\nThey also damaged the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which never entered service because Germany\u00a0suspended its certification process\u00a0shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nGermany had previously pushed ahead with the Nord Stream 2 project despite opposition from central and eastern European countries and the US, which argued it would increase Europe\u2019s dependence on Russian gas and give Russia the possibility of\u00a0using supplies as a geopolitical weapon.\n\nTusk said earlier this month that \"the problem of Europe, the problem of Ukraine, the problem of Lithuania and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built.\"\n\nHe said that \"the only people who should be ashamed of and quiet about Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it.\"\n\nAt the time of his arrest, Volodymyr Z. was a resident of Poland, where he lived with his wife and children, Polish prosecutors say. His wife has told Polish media her husband is innocent and that they were together in Poland at the time the pipelines were blown up.\n\nHe is one of two Ukrainians whose extradition German judicial authorities are trying to secure in the case.\n\nA man suspected to have been one of the coordinators of the attack was\u00a0arrested in Italy in August. This week,\u00a0Italy's top court\u00a0annulled a lower court's decision to order his extradition and called for another panel of judges to reassess the case, his lawyer said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Polish court blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines on Friday, a handover that Poland's prime minister has said wasn't in his country's interest.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old suspect, who has been identified only as Volodymyr Z. in line with local privacy rules, was arrested near Warsaw on a German warrant on 30 September.<\/p>\n<p>German prosecutors have described him as a trained diver and allege that he was part of a group that placed explosives on the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Warsaw District Court rejected his extradition on Friday and ordered his immediate release.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Tymoteusz Paprocki said ahead of the hearing that \"my client doesn\u2019t admit guilt, he didn\u2019t commit any crime against Germany and he doesn\u2019t understand why these charges were made by the German side.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5739583333333333\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//65//20//70//808x464_cmsv2_56822928-eeca-5c9a-ab8b-451fbc981807-8652070.jpg/" alt=\"The gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Swedish Coast Guard&#x27;s aircraft, 27 September, 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/65\/20\/70\/384x220_cmsv2_56822928-eeca-5c9a-ab8b-451fbc981807-8652070.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">The gas leak in the Baltic Sea from Nord Stream photographed from the Swedish Coast Guard&#x27;s aircraft, 27 September, 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He said he also would argue that no Ukrainian should be charged with any action directed against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Poland, whose successive governments have been staunchly anti-Russian, has a history of opposition to the pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said it would not be in Poland's interest to hand over the suspect.<\/p>\n<h2>Pipelines damaged<\/h2>\n<p>Undersea explosions on 26 September 2022, severely damaged the pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>The damage added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources following the Kremlin\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was inaugurated in 2011 and carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut off supplies at the end of August 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//46//80//72//808x539_cmsv2_3e72b88f-8667-5afa-8bbf-2c38dd452422-9468072.jpg/" alt=\"Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, 10 September, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/46\/80\/72\/384x256_cmsv2_3e72b88f-8667-5afa-8bbf-2c38dd452422-9468072.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, 10 September, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>They also damaged the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which never entered service because Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Germany had previously pushed ahead with the Nord Stream 2 project despite opposition from central and eastern European countries and the US, which argued it would increase Europe\u2019s dependence on Russian gas and give Russia the possibility of using supplies as a geopolitical weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk said earlier this month that \"the problem of Europe, the problem of Ukraine, the problem of Lithuania and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//17//russian-barrage-causes-blackouts-in-ukraine-as-zelenskyy-seeks-trumps-help-in-washington/">Russia batters Ukraine\u2019s energy grid with drone and missile strikes, officials say<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//16//trump-says-he-will-meet-putin-in-hungary-in-bid-to-resolve-ukraine-war/">Trump says he will meet Putin in Hungary in bid to resolve Ukraine war<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>He said that \"the only people who should be ashamed of and quiet about Nord Stream 2 are those who decided to build it.\"<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his arrest, Volodymyr Z. was a resident of Poland, where he lived with his wife and children, Polish prosecutors say. His wife has told Polish media her husband is innocent and that they were together in Poland at the time the pipelines were blown up.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of two Ukrainians whose extradition German judicial authorities are trying to secure in the case.<\/p>\n<p>A man suspected to have been one of the coordinators of the attack was arrested in Italy in August. This week, Italy's top court annulled a lower court's decision to order his extradition and called for another panel of judges to reassess the case, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760694485,"updatedAt":1760724735,"publishedAt":1760695709,"firstPublishedAt":1760695709,"lastPublishedAt":1760711402,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/57\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6e1d4194-2603-51f4-a2a2-0935148ca491-9515786.jpg","altText":"A Ukrainian man who has been identified only as Volodymyr Z in a regional court in Warsaw, 17 October, 2025","caption":"A Ukrainian man who has been identified only as Volodymyr Z in a regional court in Warsaw, 17 October, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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COURT UKRAINIAN EXTRADITION","daletPyramidId":3025160,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Italy court blocks extradition of Ukrainian to Germany in Nord Stream pipelines blast case","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Italy court blocks extradition of Ukrainian in Nord Stream blast case","titleListing2":"Italy's top court blocks extradition of Ukrainian man to Germany in Nord Stream explosion case","leadin":"The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut of supplies at the end of August 2022.","summary":"The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut of supplies at the end of August 2022.","keySentence":"","url":"italy-court-blocks-extradition-of-ukrainian-to-germany-in-nord-stream-pipelines-blast-case","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/10\/16\/italy-court-blocks-extradition-of-ukrainian-to-germany-in-nord-stream-pipelines-blast-case","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Italy's top court has rejected the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man arrested on suspicion of setting off\u00a0explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, his lawyer said on Thursday.\n\nItaly's Cassation Court annulled a previous decision by a Bologna appeals court on Wednesday, which had ordered the extradition to Germany of the 49-year-old suspect, Serhii Kuznietsov.\n\nThe Italian top court has now demanded another panel of the same appeals court to reassess the case, said Kuznietsov's lawyer, Nicola Canestrini.\n\nCanestrini said the motivations of the Cassation court's decision have not been filed yet and are expected in the coming weeks.\n\n\"In the meantime, I will evaluate whether the conditions exist to request my client's release, since the legal basis for detention has ceased to exist,\" Canestrini added.\n\nThe explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia\u00a0cut of supplies\u00a0at the end of August 2022.\n\nThey also damaged the parallel Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which never entered service because Germany\u00a0suspended its certification process\u00a0shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.\n\nGerman prosecutors opened an investigation after the explosions and officials have pointed to an interest in clearing up what happened.\n\nKuznietsov was detained on a European arrest warrant on 21 August, at a camping ground near the Adriatic coastal city of Rimini, where he was on holiday with his family.\n\nDuring his first hearing confirming his detention, Kuznietsov denied any involvement in the explosions, saying he was in Ukraine where he was serving in the army as a captain at the time of the blasts.\n\nGerman prosecutors allege that Kuznietsov organised and carried out the detonation of at least four bombs between 14 and 27 kilograms at a depth of 70-80 metres in the Baltic Sea near the Danish island of Bornholm on 26 September 2022, according to the extradition papers.\n\nPolish authorities arrested another Ukrainian citizen last month who is also suspected of involvement in the undersea explosions.\n\nThe Warsaw District Court is expected to rule on his extradition on Friday, but the decision can be appealed.\n\nPrime Minister Donald Tusk said in early October that it was not \"in the interest of Poland\" to extradite the man.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Italy's top court has rejected the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man arrested on suspicion of setting off explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, his lawyer said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Italy's Cassation Court annulled a previous decision by a Bologna appeals court on Wednesday, which had ordered the extradition to Germany of the 49-year-old suspect, Serhii Kuznietsov.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian top court has now demanded another panel of the same appeals court to reassess the case, said Kuznietsov's lawyer, Nicola Canestrini.<\/p>\n<p>Canestrini said the motivations of the Cassation court's decision have not been filed yet and are expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\"In the meantime, I will evaluate whether the conditions exist to request my client's release, since the legal basis for detention has ceased to exist,\" Canestrini added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>German prosecutors opened an investigation after the explosions and officials have pointed to an interest in clearing up what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Kuznietsov was detained on a European arrest warrant on 21 August, at a camping ground near the Adriatic coastal city of Rimini, where he was on holiday with his family.<\/p>\n<p>During his first hearing confirming his detention, Kuznietsov denied any involvement in the explosions, saying he was in Ukraine where he was serving in the army as a captain at the time of the blasts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.645\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" 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extradition papers.<\/p>\n<p>Polish authorities arrested another Ukrainian citizen last month who is also suspected of involvement in the undersea explosions.<\/p>\n<p>The Warsaw District Court is expected to rule on his extradition on Friday, but the decision can be appealed.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in early October that it was not \"in the interest of Poland\" to extradite the man.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760633958,"updatedAt":1760635969,"publishedAt":1760635942,"firstPublishedAt":1760635942,"lastPublishedAt":1760635942,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/48\/21\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7c24404e-a6b0-5a19-8227-4565c3b320ab-9514821.jpg","altText":"The Russian pipe-laying ship Akademik Tscherski on deployment for further construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline moored off Germany, 8 September, 2020","caption":"The Russian pipe-laying ship Akademik Tscherski on deployment for further construction of the Nord 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ZERO PERSONAL INCOME TAX","daletPyramidId":3024324,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Poland's president signs off on new zero income tax law for parents with two children","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Polish president signs zero income tax law for parents with two kids ","titleListing2":"Poland's president signs new law ensuring zero income tax for parents with two children","leadin":"The bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (\u20ac32,973) a year.","summary":"The bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (\u20ac32,973) a year.","keySentence":"","url":"polands-president-signs-off-on-new-zero-income-tax-law-for-parents-with-two-children","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/10\/16\/polands-president-signs-off-on-new-zero-income-tax-law-for-parents-with-two-children","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Poland's president has signed a new law introducing zero personal income tax (PIT) for parents raising at least two children, a reform which aims to support families, increase household income and boost economic activity.\n\nThe bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (\u20ac32,973) a year.\n\nThe tax break is available to all parents who have parental responsibility over children, including legal guardians and foster parents.\n\nAccording to calculations by the presidency, an average Polish family is expected to be around 1,000 zloty (\u20ac235) per month better off thanks to the new tax break.\n\nThe actual impact of the new regulations will only be visible in the 2026 tax return, which will be filed in 2027.\n\nThe aim of the reform is to reduce the tax burden on families, increase disposable income, stimulate consumption and encourage professional activity.\n\nNawrocki made zero PIT for families one of the pillars of his presidential campaign.\n\nAs early as March, he presented his so-called \"Contract with the Poles,\" in which he announced the introduction of the tax relief from the first day of his presidency.\n\nAfter his victory in the June run-off he kept his word, symbolically signing the bill on 8 August before passing it to Poland\u2019s parliament, the Sejm.\n\nZero PIT is just one element of a wider reform dubbed the \"tax armour,\" a package of reforms that also includes a reduction of VAT from 23% to 22%, the abolition of capital gains tax and the introduction of a quota-based pension indexation.\n\nWho will benefit?\n\nThe president's office says that financing the programme will come from a tightening of the tax system to the tune of 14 billion zloty (\u20ac3 billion), but financial experts believe that such a sum is unrealistic to achieve by this route alone.\n\nTax specialists also warn that the real benefits will be felt mainly by the wealthiest citizens.\n\nPiotr Juszczyk, chief tax adviser at inFakt, stresses that low-income families, \u00a0who pay little or no income tax, will gain a negligible amount while those with high incomes will benefit the most.\n\nFor example, a family with a gross monthly income of 7,000 zloty (\u20ac1,648) can count on a relief of around 395 zloty (\u20ac93) per month.\n\nIn comparison, parents earning 12,000 zloty (\u20ac2,826) per month will save as much as 913 zloty (\u20ac215) every month, or over 11,000 zloty (\u20ac2,590) per year.\n\nMeanwhile, those earning the lowest national income can only expect to see savings of around 75 zloty (\u20ac17) while those with incomes lower than the tax-free amount will not see any change at all as they are already exempt from PIT.\n\nWhat do Poles think?\n\nOn 11 September, public consultations were held on the draft law prepared by the President. 476 people took part in the consultation, 71% of whom were men and 29% were women.\n\nAround 76% of respondents felt that the new tax law was definitely needed, while only 16% expressed strong opposition to Nawrocki's proposal.\n\nIn addition, 66% of respondents positively assessed the presented assessment of the economic and financial impact of the introduction of zero PIT for 2+2 families, while between 10-11% disagreed with it.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Poland's president has signed a new law introducing zero personal income tax (PIT) for parents raising at least two children, a reform which aims to support families, increase household income and boost economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (\u20ac32,973) a year.<\/p>\n<p>The tax break is available to all parents who have parental responsibility over children, including legal guardians and foster parents.<\/p>\n<p>According to calculations by the presidency, an average Polish family is expected to be around 1,000 zloty (\u20ac235) per month better off thanks to the new tax break.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.697\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//51//46//15//808x565_cmsv2_7b2fee78-8953-535d-95ba-b08e1918c51c-9514615.jpg/" alt=\"A family at a railway station in Przemysl, 22 March, 2022\" 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(max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A family at a railway station in Przemysl, 22 March, 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Sergei Grits<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The actual impact of the new regulations will only be visible in the 2026 tax return, which will be filed in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the reform is to reduce the tax burden on families, increase disposable income, stimulate consumption and encourage professional activity.<\/p>\n<p>Nawrocki made zero PIT for families one of the pillars of his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As early as March, he presented his so-called \"Contract with the Poles,\" in which he announced the introduction of the tax relief from the first day of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>After his victory in the June run-off he kept his word, symbolically signing the bill on 8 August before passing it to Poland\u2019s parliament, the Sejm.<\/p>\n<p>Zero PIT is just one element of a wider reform dubbed the \"tax armour,\" a package of reforms that also includes a reduction of VAT from 23% to 22%, the abolition of capital gains tax and the introduction of a quota-based pension indexation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//51//46//15//808x539_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg/" alt=\"Poland&#x2019;s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, in Warsaw, 7 March, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/384x256_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/640x427_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/750x500_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/828x552_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1080x720_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1200x800_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/1920x1280_cmsv2_79577929-ec6f-5eae-aa56-74e973e72268-9514615.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Poland&#x2019;s lower house of parliament, the Sejm, in Warsaw, 7 March, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Who will benefit?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The president's office says that financing the programme will come from a tightening of the tax system to the tune of 14 billion zloty (\u20ac3 billion), but financial experts believe that such a sum is unrealistic to achieve by this route alone.<\/p>\n<p>Tax specialists also warn that the real benefits will be felt mainly by the wealthiest citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Piotr Juszczyk, chief tax adviser at inFakt, stresses that low-income families, who pay little or no income tax, will gain a negligible amount while those with high incomes will benefit the most.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//03//poland-accuses-russia-of-attack-plot-involving-explosives-smuggled-in-corn-tins/">Poland accuses Russia of attack plot involving explosives smuggled in corn tins <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//23//poland-to-reopen-border-with-belarus-after-nearly-two-week-closure-pm-tusk-says/">Poland to reopen border with Belarus after nearly two-week closure, PM Tusk says <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For example, a family with a gross monthly income of 7,000 zloty (\u20ac1,648) can count on a relief of around 395 zloty (\u20ac93) per month.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, parents earning 12,000 zloty (\u20ac2,826) per month will save as much as 913 zloty (\u20ac215) every month, or over 11,000 zloty (\u20ac2,590) per year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, those earning the lowest national income can only expect to see savings of around 75 zloty (\u20ac17) while those with incomes lower than the tax-free amount will not see any change at all as they are already exempt from PIT.<\/p>\n<h2>What do Poles think?<\/h2>\n<p>On 11 September, public consultations were held on the draft law prepared by the President. 476 people took part in the consultation, 71% of whom were men and 29% were women.<\/p>\n<p>Around 76% of respondents felt that the new tax law was definitely needed, while only 16% expressed strong opposition to Nawrocki's proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 66% of respondents positively assessed the presented assessment of the economic and financial impact of the introduction of zero PIT for 2+2 families, while between 10-11% disagreed with it.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760627191,"updatedAt":1760633522,"publishedAt":1760631602,"firstPublishedAt":1760631602,"lastPublishedAt":1760633521,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_89a39666-39fd-5db0-8a7f-e2f1af695184-9514615.jpg","altText":"Polish President Karol Nawrocki speaks during a press conference in Vilnius, 8 September, 2025","caption":"Polish President Karol Nawrocki speaks during a press conference in Vilnius, 8 September, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1619,"height":910},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/51\/46\/15\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7b2fee78-8953-535d-95ba-b08e1918c51c-9514615.jpg","altText":"A family at a railway station in Przemysl, 22 March, 2022","caption":"A 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PHOTOGRAPHER CHOPIN UKRAINE","daletPyramidId":2951450,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"War and Chopin: Inside the photographic worlds of Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"War and Chopin: Behind the photographic lens with Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski","titleListing2":"War and Chopin. Two photojournalistic leitmotifs by Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski","leadin":"For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski away from the front line and traditionally leads him to Warsaw - the Chopin International Piano Competition. But what does Chopin have to do with war and conflict?","summary":"For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski away from the front line and traditionally leads him to Warsaw - the Chopin International Piano Competition. But what does Chopin have to do with war and conflict?","keySentence":"","url":"war-and-chopin-inside-the-photographic-worlds-of-wojciech-grzedzinski","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/10\/14\/war-and-chopin-inside-the-photographic-worlds-of-wojciech-grzedzinski","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Every five years, since 1927, Warsaw has become the classical music capital of the world thanks to the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition. It is an event that attracts the eyes (or rather the ears) of classical music lovers from all over the world.\n\nFor young pianists, it is a watershed moment for which they often prepare since early childhood. Victory is finally a chance for a worldwide career, a place on the most important music stages and a place in the history of music.\n\nAmong those who have been documenting this event for two decades is Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski - a Polish photojournalist whose work is particularly defined by two distant leitmotifs: war and Chopin.\n\nCapturing worlds apart\n\nWojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, winner of prestigious awards such as the World Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, Visa d'Or or Sony World Photography Awards, has for years been reporting on armed conflicts in Lebanon, Georgia, South Sudan and Afghanistan, and has spent may months in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of the country.\n\nEvery five years, however, he is drawn to Warsaw by the Chopin Competition, of which he is the official photographer. The organisers of the event, known for their rigorous selection of journalists, trust his eye.\n\nHow is it possible that war and Chopin are particular areas of his work?\n\n\"I have never felt myself to be exclusively a war photojournalist,\" - says Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski. 'Paradoxically, I photographed the first Chopin Competition a year before I went to my first conflict. These two worlds - war and music - are intertwined in my work. The competition is not a therapy or an escape for me, but a completely different area of photographic activity, extremely different from the front.\"\n\nFor Grz\u0119dzinski, the Chopin Competition 'is a marker in time, an anchor in reality. No matter what happens in the world, he has been returning to Warsaw for this event for 20 years.\n\nPhotographing the war and the Chopin Competition may seem extremely distant, but Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski sees a common denominator in them.\n\n\"For me, the key to photography is a human being in an extreme moment of life,\" Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski explains as we chat at Warsaw's National Philharmonic Hall during a short break in the several-hour-long auditions.\n\n\"There is a stage in front of us where all the pianists who come here to face and try their hand at the competition are placed in an absolutely extreme situation. But also to measure themselves against themselves, against other countries, to be judged and by the jury, by the audience. This is a borderline situation and the same, I feel, is the extreme of a war situation. Of course, the risks are different, but the level of emotion accompanying these events is paradoxically very similar.\"\n\nGrz\u0119dzi\u0144ski has been photographing the Chopin Competition since 2005, when, as he admits, he found himself backstage at the Philharmonic by accident.\n\n\"I was a photographer for 'Rzeczpospolita', which is still the competition's media patron. After a difficult trip to Belarus, where I contracted various illnesses, my boss Micha\u0142 Sadowski said: 'Go to the Chopin Competition, you'll rest there'. It's perverse, considering how much work there is at the competition,\" he recalls with a smile.\n\nAt the time, he liked his photographs, they changed the way the competition was shown.\n\n\"They were a bit different. We broke this thing of showing pianists only from the stage. We started to sneak into the backstage area. So as to show more and also show the difficult life of a musician. Because it is a life full of sacrifices. Hours of lonely rehearsals, training. It has quite a lot in common with the life of an athlete, because these are hours of practice. Often alone in the hall. It's worth showing that.\"\n\nBehind the scenes of the Chopin Competition\n\nThis year, 84 participants from 18 countries entered the 19th edition of the competition, including 28 from China, 13 from Poland and 13 from Japan. Forty pianists, including four Poles, made it to the second stage. The winner will announced in the final, which will run from 18 to 20 October.\n\nThe organisers of the Chopin competition want to provide the participants with the best possible conditions for concentration. That is why Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski has unrestricted access to the backstage area.\n\nThe photographs allow us to feel the atmosphere of the competition, but also to see how music brings people together across borders. People who communicate with each other using the language of \u00e9tudes, waltzes, nocturnes and preludes - by Chopin, of course.\n\nBut what does he observe there? What scenes, what atmosphere?\n\n\"Each of this year's 84 pianists is an absolute individual. There are 16-year-olds and almost 30-year-olds, each with a different baggage of experience. It is interesting to watch how they deal with stress. Just now, Yehuda Prokopovich was playing a character who was riddled with stress. Others even sink into themselves, trying to cut themselves off from the reality around them.\"\n\nGrz\u0119dzi\u0144ski emphasises that what fascinates him about the people he photographs is their passion. Entering the competition is preceded not only by preliminaries, but also by years of practice.\n\n\"Some people give their first concerts at the age of four! We are talking about a situation where a person in their twenties already has 15 years of professional experience! It is unbelievable to meet such people and interact with them.\"\n\nWhen war meets Chopin\n\nSometimes Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski's two worlds - war and Chopin - merge and surprisingly intermingle. And literally. One such event earned him the Photograph of the Year award at Grand Press Photo 2022.\n\n\"It was probably on the fifth of March 2022. A bomb fell on Biala Cerkiew, a town about 80 kilometres south of Kyiv. Suddenly there was an explosion in the town where we were. Kyiv was encircled on three sides by the Russians. We went to the scene and it turned out that a bomb or a rocket had exploded between the single-family houses - to this day I don't know what it was exactly', Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski recalls.\n\nOne of the houses that suffered mightily was that of Irina Maniukina, a 48-year-old pianist at the time.\n\n\"There was a burnt facade there, the door was kicked down, everything was flying. Her daughter was also slightly injured. Luckily it was only scratches on the skin. And so we walked around that house. And she [Irina] at one point walks up to the piano, takes the protective cover off it and starts playing. On a completely out of tune instrument, in a room with broken windows, she starts playing Chopin. And I had shivers at that moment. Because these are my two photographic worlds... Suddenly, they intersected in one place and at one moment\".\n\nThe Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is accompanied by numerous events, including an exhibition of photographs by Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski from the four previous editions of the competition. It can be seen in Warsaw's Hala Koszyki until 22 October 2025 (admission free).\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Every five years, since 1927, Warsaw has become the classical music capital of the world thanks to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//frederic-chopin/">Fryderyk Chopin<\/strong><\/a> International Piano Competition**.** It is an event that attracts the eyes (or rather the ears) of classical music lovers from all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>For young pianists, it is a watershed moment for which they often prepare since early childhood. Victory is finally a chance for a worldwide career, a place on the most important music stages and a place in the history of music.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who have been documenting this event for two decades is Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski - a Polish photojournalist whose work is particularly defined by two distant leitmotifs: war and Chopin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//808x454_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski at the National Philharmonic.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_1ac989bf-352c-5156-9bef-6497cc998f7b-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski at the National Philharmonic.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Capturing worlds apart<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski, winner of prestigious awards such as the World Press Photo, Grand Press Photo, Visa d'Or or <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//03//11//beauty-everywhere-take-a-look-at-the-winners-of-the-2025-sony-world-photography-awards/">Sony World Photography Awards<\/strong><\/a>, has for years been reporting on armed conflicts in Lebanon, Georgia, South Sudan and Afghanistan, and has spent may months in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of the country. <\/p>\n<p>Every five years, however, he is drawn to Warsaw by the Chopin Competition, of which he is the official photographer. The organisers of the event, known for their rigorous selection of journalists, trust his eye.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5623249299719888\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Ukrainian artillery near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x607_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_d20e9532-a8e0-5191-b8e0-7eba346e8a09-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian artillery near Bachmut, in eastern Ukraine. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Zuzanna Sejbuk, Polish pianist. Participant of the 19th ed. International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a169e897-ed04-5544-82a4-ad3811255fb3-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Zuzanna Sejbuk, Polish pianist. Participant in the 19th ed. Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski\/NIFC<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.562111801242236\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Vyacheslav Levitsky smokes a cigarette, holding it with a fork attached with a rubber band to the stump of his forearm. He lost his limbs due to injuries and frostbite in Russian captivity.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x465_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x607_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1079_cmsv2_c4ef3bc6-6a10-5d39-90c8-718354c6738b-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Vyacheslav Levitsky smokes a cigarette, holding it with a fork attached with a rubber band to the stump of his forearm. He lost his limbs due to injuries and frostbite in Russian captivity.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grzedzinski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>How is it possible that war and Chopin are particular areas of his work?<\/p>\n<p>\"I have never felt myself to be exclusively a war photojournalist,\" - says Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski. 'Paradoxically, I photographed the first Chopin Competition a year before I went to my first conflict. These two worlds - war and music - are intertwined in my work. The competition is not a therapy or an escape for me, but a completely different area of photographic activity, extremely different from the front.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Hyuk Lee, pianist from South Korea. Participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_c5192a05-6726-5b31-9347-23127ce19a31-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hyuk Lee, pianist from South Korea. Participant in the 19th edition of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski\/NIFC<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullscreen widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625744934445769\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1052x591_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Irina, a waitress injured in a Russian rocket attack on the Ria Pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, waits to be rescued under rubble. Thirteen people were killed in the shelling.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_32e35c97-ee7e-57e9-89b8-e29d4c692d5d-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Irina, a waitress injured in a Russian rocket attack on the Ria Pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, waits to be rescued under the rubble. Thirteen people were killed in the shelling.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For Grz\u0119dzinski, the Chopin Competition 'is a marker in time, an anchor in reality. No matter what happens in the world, he has been returning to Warsaw for this event for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Photographing the war and the Chopin Competition may seem extremely distant, but Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski sees a common denominator in them.<\/p>\n<p>\"For me, the key to photography is a human being in an extreme moment of life,\" Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski explains as we chat at Warsaw's National Philharmonic Hall during a short break in the several-hour-long auditions.<\/p>\n<p>\"There is a stage in front of us where all the pianists who come here to face and try their hand at the competition are placed in an absolutely extreme situation. But also to measure themselves against themselves, against other countries, to be judged and by the jury, by the audience. This is a borderline situation and the same, I feel, is the extreme of a war situation. Of course, the risks are different, but the level of emotion accompanying these events is paradoxically very similar.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"A participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_41a65736-034e-5899-beab-e5f7722235e1-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski\/NIFC<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5626304801670147\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"A Russian soldier smokes a cigarette near Gori. Conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia. 13 August 2008.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_909e86a9-36aa-5a4d-888b-2670e772ccc0-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Russian soldier smokes a cigarette near Gori. Conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia. 13 August 2008.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski has been photographing the Chopin Competition since 2005, when, as he admits, he found himself backstage at the Philharmonic by accident. <\/p>\n<p>\"I was a photographer for 'Rzeczpospolita', which is still the competition's media patron. After a difficult trip to Belarus, where I contracted various illnesses, my boss Micha\u0142 Sadowski said: 'Go to the Chopin Competition, you'll rest there'. It's perverse, considering how much work there is at the competition,\" he recalls with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he liked his photographs, they changed the way the competition was shown.<\/p>\n<p>\"They were a bit different. We broke this thing of showing pianists only from the stage. We started to sneak into the backstage area. So as to show more and also show the difficult life of a musician. Because it is a life full of sacrifices. Hours of lonely rehearsals, training. It has quite a lot in common with the life of an athlete, because these are hours of practice. Often alone in the hall. It's worth showing that.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//06//21//romantic-life-chopin-scheffer-delacroix-sand-a-parisian-circle-reimagined-in-warsaw-expo/">'Romantic Life: Chopin, Scheffer, Delacroix, Sand' \u2013 a Parisian circle reimagined in Warsaw<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2021//10//11//chopin-portrait-restored-after-flea-market-find-may-be-a-prelude-to-a-windfall/">Chopin portrait, restored after flea market find, may be a 'prelude' to a windfall<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Behind the scenes of the Chopin Competition<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This year, 84 participants from 18 countries entered the 19th edition of the competition, including 28 from China, 13 from Poland and 13 from Japan. Forty pianists, including four Poles, made it to the second stage. The winner will announced in the final, which will run from 18 to 20 October.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of the Chopin competition want to provide the participants with the best possible conditions for concentration. That is why Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski has unrestricted access to the backstage area.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs allow us to feel the atmosphere of the competition, but also to see how music brings people together across borders. People who communicate with each other using the language of \u00e9tudes, waltzes, nocturnes and preludes - by Chopin, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But what does he observe there? What scenes, what atmosphere?<\/p>\n<p>\"Each of this year's 84 pianists is an absolute individual. There are 16-year-olds and almost 30-year-olds, each with a different baggage of experience. It is interesting to watch how they deal with stress. Just now, Yehuda Prokopovich was playing a character who was riddled with stress. Others even sink into themselves, trying to cut themselves off from the reality around them.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//808x454_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_02d754c2-fa16-5429-8fa1-1f29d7545878-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grzedzinski\/NIFC<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski emphasises that what fascinates him about the people he photographs is their passion. Entering the competition is preceded not only by preliminaries, but also by years of practice.<\/p>\n<p>\"Some people give their first concerts at the age of four! We are talking about a situation where a person in their twenties already has 15 years of professional experience! It is unbelievable to meet such people and interact with them.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When war meets Chopin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Sometimes Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski's two worlds - war and Chopin - merge and surprisingly intermingle. And literally. One such event earned him the Photograph of the Year award at Grand Press Photo 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Irina Maniukina plays a piece by Fr&#xE9;d&#xE9;ric Chopin on the piano in her living room in Belaya Cerkieva, northern Ukraine, just after the bombing.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_54600708-d6f4-553d-8be0-d67595ed8fa6-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Irina Maniukina plays a piece by Fr&#xE9;d&#xE9;ric Chopin on the piano in her living room in Belaya Cerkieva, northern Ukraine, just after the bombing.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"It was probably on the fifth of March 2022. A bomb fell on Biala Cerkiew, a town about 80 kilometres south of Kyiv. Suddenly there was an explosion in the town where we were. Kyiv was encircled on three sides by the Russians. We went to the scene and it turned out that a bomb or a rocket had exploded between the single-family houses - to this day I don't know what it was exactly', Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski recalls.<\/p>\n<p>One of the houses that suffered mightily was that of Irina Maniukina, a 48-year-old pianist at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\"There was a burnt facade there, the door was kicked down, everything was flying. Her daughter was also slightly injured. Luckily it was only scratches on the skin. And so we walked around that house. And she [Irina] at one point walks up to the piano, takes the protective cover off it and starts playing. On a completely out of tune instrument, in a room with broken windows, she starts playing Chopin. And I had shivers at that moment. Because these are my two photographic worlds... Suddenly, they intersected in one place and at one moment\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"Exhibition of photographs by Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski in Hala Koszyki.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x422_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x466_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x608_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x675_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1080_cmsv2_225988e1-f312-58ae-80d7-e952d2534b93-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Exhibition of photographs by Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski in Hala Koszyki.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pawe&#x142; G&#x142;ogowski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5619307832422586\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//20//86//1280x719_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg/" alt=\"15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/384x216_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/640x360_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/750x421_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/828x465_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1080x607_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1200x674_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/1920x1079_cmsv2_94d6582b-ea8e-5c5c-973b-0175eb0ac378-9502086.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Wojciech Grz&#x119;dzi&#x144;ski<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition is accompanied by numerous events, including <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////koszyki.com//wystawa-wojciech-grzedzinski///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>an exhibition of photographs by Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski from the four previous editions of the competition<\/strong><\/a>. It can be seen in Warsaw's Hala Koszyki until 22 October 2025 (admission free).<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1760016916,"updatedAt":1760452604,"publishedAt":1760439922,"firstPublishedAt":1760439922,"lastPublishedAt":1760439922,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/20\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c935f00c-8a6f-51f5-b44e-29844bdbc5b0-9502086.jpg","altText":"The 19th edition of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.","caption":"The 19th edition of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Wojciech Grz\u0119dzi\u0144ski\/NIFC","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1125}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3286,"urlSafeValue":"galka-reczko","title":"Aleksandra Galka Reczko","twitter":"@Ola_Galka"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[{"id":3491,"urlSafeValue":"pawel.glogowski@euronews.com","title":"Pawel Glogowski","twitter":null}]},"keywords":[{"id":4147,"slug":"photography","urlSafeValue":"photography","title":"Photography","titleRaw":"Photography"},{"id":9459,"slug":"classical-music","urlSafeValue":"classical-music","title":"Classical music","titleRaw":"Classical music"},{"id":26692,"slug":"war-in-ukraine","urlSafeValue":"war-in-ukraine","title":"War in Ukraine","titleRaw":"War in Ukraine"},{"id":11510,"slug":"frederic-chopin","urlSafeValue":"frederic-chopin","title":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin","titleRaw":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"image","count":12},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2808534},{"id":2839257},{"id":2840169}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"vOLu-iDGhmU","dailymotionId":"x9s4qa8"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/26\/86\/84\/09\/ED_PYR_2686849_20251014143645.mp4","editor":"","duration":135880,"filesizeBytes":22418084,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/26\/86\/84\/09\/SHD_PYR_2686849_20251014143645.mp4","editor":"","duration":135880,"filesizeBytes":33605329,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"1080p","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/26\/86\/84\/09\/FHD_PYR_2686849_20251014143645.mp4","editor":"","duration":135880,"filesizeBytes":106884035,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture News","online":0,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/culture-news\/culture-news"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"culture","verticals":[{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":10,"slug":"culture","urlSafeValue":"culture","title":"Culture"},"themes":[{"id":"culture-news","urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news","url":"\/culture\/culture-news"},{"id":"art","urlSafeValue":"art","title":"Art","url":"\/culture\/art"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":53,"urlSafeValue":"culture-news","title":"Culture news"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":230,"urlSafeValue":"poland","title":"Poland","url":"\/news\/europe\/poland"},"town":{"id":2211,"urlSafeValue":"warsaw","title":"Warsaw"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":{"id":1,"slug":"deepl","isActive":1},"localisation":{"producerLanguage":"pl","storyId":9502086,"online":1},"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":1,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/culture\/2025\/10\/14\/war-and-chopin-inside-the-photographic-worlds-of-wojciech-grzedzinski","lastModified":1760439922}]">

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Undersea explosions on 26 September 2022, severely damaged the two pipelines. The incident added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources.

17/10/2025

Poland

Italy court blocks extradition of Ukrainian in Nord Stream blast case

The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which carried Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea until Russia cut of supplies at the end of August 2022.

16/10/2025

Poland

Polish president signs zero income tax law for parents with two kids

The bill, presented by Karol Nawrocki in August, removes the income tax obligation on families earning up to 140,000 zloty (€32,973) a year.

16/10/2025

Culture news

War and Chopin: Behind the photographic lens with Wojciech Grzędziński

For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and traditionally leads him to Warsaw - the Chopin International Piano Competition. But what does Chopin have to do with war and conflict?

14/10/2025