French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to visit China in the new year, as speculation swirls about Beijing’s potential role in ending the Ukraine war. According to several sources familiar with the matter, Macron’s trusted diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne travelled this week to Beijing with a team of aides to lay the groundwork for a…
Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Europe is facing a daunting reality. With Donald Trump, who has long pushed allies to boost their military budgets, heading back in the White House, they may have to spend a lot more. Not just for…
TORUN, Poland (AP) — The mother of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is boycotting the world premiere of “Rust” at a film festival in Poland on Wednesday, saying she views it as an attempt by Alec Baldwin to “unjustly profit” from her daughter’s death. The Western is premiering at the International Film Festival of the Art…
Polish stocks and the zloty currency dropped as investors used the Eastern European country’s assets as a proxy for escalating risk in the region as Russia widened its scope for using nuclear weapons. Warsaw’s WIG20 index plunged as much as 3.5%, the biggest drop among key global equity indexes on Tuesday and its largest one-day…
Text size Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed satisfaction Friday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had told Russian President Vladimir Putin that nothing could be decided about Ukraine without Kyiv’s participation. “Scholz… gave me an account of his talk with V.Putin,” said Tusk on X, referring to a phone call earlier Friday between the two…
Home News ‘From Kremlin to White House: Putin’s Calculated Influence in Trump’s Political Rise’ Russia’s secret operation involved hacking emails and documents and spreading false information on social media. New Delhi: George Papadopoulos, who was a foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, shared with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had harmful information about…
Hi, this is Konrad Krasuski in Warsaw. Welcome to our weekly newsletter on what’s shaping economics and investments from the Baltic Sea to the Balkans. You can subscribe here. The mood at the Warsaw Stock Exchange was jubilant when Polish convenience store chain Zabka began trading this week. The $1.6 billion initial public offering –…
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Stanislawa Wasilewska was 42 when she was captured by Nazi German troops on Aug. 31, 1944 in Warsaw and sent to the women’s concentration camp at Ravensbrück. From there, she was sent to the Neuengamme forced labor camp, where she was given prisoner number 7257 and had her valuables seized. Eighty…