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Who is Nawrocki, Poland's new president, and what could his narrow victory mean for Polish-Ukrainian relations?
The Kyiv Independent
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June 2, 2025
In a closely contested presidential runoff, conservative historian Karol Nawrocki has been declared the winner of Poland's 2025 presidential election, securing 50.89% of the vote against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski's 49.11%. The result...
‘Why I decided to move to Ukraine to the frontline in Kharkiv’: Interview with Czech journalist Adéla Knapová
Global Voices
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June 2, 2025
Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city in the east, is only 30 kilometers from the border with Russia, which is now the frontline. Before the February 2022 full-scale invasion by Russia, it was home to nearly 1.5 million people and acted as an...
Poland: Nawrocki Takes Slim Lead In Presidential Vote, Exit Polls Show
StratNews Global
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June 1, 2025
Home Europe Poland: Nawrocki Takes Slim Lead In Presidential Vote, Exit Polls Show Nawrocki, 42, an amateur boxer who ran a national remembrance institute, campaigned on a promise to ensure government economic and social policies favour Poles over...
Polish eurosceptic Nawrocki wins presidential vote, electoral commission says
The Straits Times
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June 1, 2025
Mr Karol Nawrocki flashing the victory sign in front of supporters as exit polls are announced at the Mala Warszawa Theatre in Warsaw, Poland.PHOTO: AFP WARSAW – Nationalist and eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki won Poland’s presidential election, the...
EU rocked as right-wing candidate inspired by Trump wins Poland's presidential election - allowing him veto PM's pro-Brussels policies
Daily Mail
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June 2, 2025
Poland has elected conservative eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki as its new president after a staggering turnaround to clinch 50.89 per cent of the vote. Nawrocki, 42, narrowly overcame Warsaw's centrist liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, 53, who scored...
How hooligan prez Nawrocki puts Poland on EU collision course, gives Trump key ally & has torpedoed arch-eurocrat Tusk
The Sun
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June 2, 2025
KAROL Nawrocki has been elected as Poland's new president in a gargantuan blow to the reform agenda of the country's pro-EU government. The Trump-backed, right-wing historian with a hooliganism past won the election with a slim 50.89% of the votes...
Etihad celebrates first flights to Prague, Warsaw
Zawya
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ABU DHABI - Etihad Airways is celebrating the launch of flights to two new destinations in Central Europe – Prague and Warsaw. On Monday 2nd June, the UAE’s national airline operated its inaugural flight to the enchanting Czech capital Prague, one...
Nawrocki win deals blow to Poland’s EU agenda
The Financial Times
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June 2, 2025
Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s newly elected president, is expected to block Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU reform agenda and offer fresh impetus to rightwing populists across the continent. In a narrow run-off victory on Sunday, Nawrocki — a...
MAGA Crowd Celebrates Nawrocki Victory in Poland
Visegrad Insight
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June 2, 2025
And so the race comes to an end. After a bitter campaign and roller coaster night, Law and Justice Party-backed candidate Karol Nawrocki has won the Polish presidential election. MAGA leaders from Central and Eastern Europe, most of whom attended...
Who is Karol Nawrocki? Conservative historian becomes Poland’s next president
The Independent
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June 2, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
The Next President of Poland. Nawrocki Signals a New Chapter of Bitter Polarisation
Visegrad Insight
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June 2, 2025
Poland’s presidential election has cracked open a new fault line in its politics. Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist historian backed by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, edged out Warsaw’s liberal mayor, Rafał Trzaskowski, with a razor-thin 51-49%...
Anti-EU football hooligan ‘pimp’ Karol Nawrocki wins Poland’s presidential election after knife-edge vote
The Sun
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June 2, 2025
ANTI-EU football hooligan "pimp" Karol Nawrocki has won Poland's presidential election. According to the final result from the electoral commission, right-wing historian with a past of football hooliganism Nawrocki, 42, won the election with a...
Who is Poland's next president Karol Nawrocki?
News.Az
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Karol Nawrocki, the conservative historian who won Poland's presidential election, cultivated a tough-guy image during his campaign, posting videos of himself at shooting ranges and boxing rings, News.Az reports citing Reuters. While his liberal...
What Hungary Lost When It Obeyed in Advance
Washington Monthly
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June 1, 2025
In March 1944, the Third Reich occupied Hungary, a country that until then had been one of Berlin’s closest allies. One of those who arrived with the invading forces was a lieutenant colonel in the SS named Kurt Becher. The SS leader Heinrich...
Austrian OMV sold 5% in Ghasha concession to LUKOIL for $594 million
AK&M
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AK&M 30 May 2025 19:05 The Austrian oil and gas company OMV AG has sold a stake in a concession for natural gas production on the UAE continental shelf to Lukoil Gulf Upstream L.L.C. S.P.C. This is reported in a press release from OMV. As part of...
History beckons for UAE with World Cup qualification teasingly close
The National News
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In a region where football fans are so highly skilled at tifos, the one Sharjah’s fans made to see off their coach in his last match was pleasingly rudimentary. Not for them the elaborate choreographies of the giant Saudi Arabian clubs, or even...
Hungary and Slovakia expand Russian fuel use while EU cuts imports
Euromaidan Press
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May 30, 2025
Hungary and Slovakia continue to rely heavily on Russian oil, gas, and nuclear fuel, despite having technical and economic capacity to switch to alternative sources, according to a detailed joint report by the Centre for the Study of Democracy...
Austrian Jewish activists plan major anti-Zionism congress
5Pillars
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May 30, 2025
Europe’s first ever anti-Zionist Jewish Congress is to be held in Austria to platform prominent Jews who denounce Zionism, the weaponisation of anti-Semitism, and Israel’s appalling crimes against the Palestinians. The congress, planned to go...
CHINA: Too Many Chinese Troubles
Strategy Page
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June 4, 2025: China is undergoing an unprecedented series of economic, demographic and medical disasters. In the last three years there’s been a 20 percent drop in American imports from China. The Chinese economy is producing less because the...
Hungary Moves to Silence Its Free Press — The EU Must Act Now
Vsquare
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May 29, 2025
Hungarian Fidesz is effectively outlawing the free press — and, more broadly, democratic public debate. With its ‘transparency’ bill proposal, introduced on May 13, Fidesz is aligning itself with the authoritarian tactics seen in Putin’s Russia....