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The Nord Stream 2 pipeline being built between Russia and Germany is one of Europe’s most politically controversial projects. With opposition to it growing, the future of the pipeline is in doubt. In this Nov. 11, 2018 file photo a ship works offshore in the Baltic Sea on the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 from Russia to Germany. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP) (CN) — European politics are heading toward a moment of reckoning and it all has to do with a 764-mile natural gas pipeline under ...

Giovinazzi in favour of Monza sprint race idea PlanetF1 13/02/2021 © Getty Images Monza Antonio Giovinazzi is open to the idea of sprint races in Formula 1, saying he would like to see two races at Monza. The concept of shorter sprint races in Formula 1 has been put on the table several times over the last few years, although the idea to do them in reverse-grid format has always seemingly been the downfall. That element has now been scrapped, although Formula 1 are still pushing for sprint...

Follow Feb. 14, 2021 Yin and yang. Prof. Daniel Blatman could not have chosen a more miserable simile for describing the way Poles related to Jews during the Holocaust. The historian (wearing his Chinese philosophy expert hat?) wrote in Haaretz on February 8 that the rescue and the killing of Jews were “two intertwining phenomena” that could not be disentangled from one another. Thus, he explained, the reality was too complex to allow a distinction between “anti-Semitic denouncers of Jews...

The prosecution of researchers and journalists who deal with Polish involvement in the Holocaust constitutes a “real threat to academic and press freedom,” says the museum.

Belarus And South Ossetia When in 1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not expand one inch eastward after German reunification, he was not alone in making that commitment. Documents declassified a few years ago establish that the same pledge was also made by President George H.W. Bush, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, CIA Director Robert Gat...

Agata Manysiak was delighted to be back on the slopes in another Polish resort, Szczyrk. “It’s great, conditions are great. There is natural snow and it would be a shame not to take advantage of it,” she said. Many of the thousands who gathered in the center of Zakopane were celebrating the second place finish of Pole Andrzej Stekala in a Ski Jumping World Cup event in the town. “Fights, brawls, arguments, damage to shops … a burning car,” police spokesman Roman Wieczorek told priva...

Last Survivor of Legendary Warsaw Orphanage Dies in Israel A beacon of hope during the Nazi occupation, the orphanage directed by Dr Januscz Korczak was built on the pioneering ideas of respecting and empowering every child. Janusz Korczak, a specialist in children’s medicine who wrote over 20 books advocating for children’s rights for respect, founded and directed a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw that became famous throughout Europe for its pioneering ideas empowering children to maximize thei...

Some Europeans get choosy about which vaccines they want By Staff | Feb 14, 2021 A Polish teacher is vaccinated against the coronavirus with the AstraZeneca vaccine in Krakow, Poland, Friday Feb. 12, 2021. As Poland began vaccinating teachers on Friday, many say they are unhappy that they are getting AstraZeneca vaccines against the coronavirus, rather than the Pfizer shots earmarked for health care workers and the elderly. Nearly a year into the pandemic, many Europeans and others globally are...

Does EU Membership Facilitate Convergence? The Experience of the EUs Eastern Enlargement - Volume II Channels of Interaction Analyses the ways in which EU membership contributed to the convergence of certain countries Explores the workings of channels such as trade, investment, financial integration, labour, laws and institutions Contributors are lead academics of the area, including researchers working in European and global institutions, and research divisions of national banks in the EUsee m...

WARSAW, Poland - Many Europeans are desperate for a coronavirus vaccine. But not just any vaccine.As AstraZeneca shots are rolling out to European Union...