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(JTA) — In the verdict of a lawsuit seen by some as significant for the future of Holocaust research and freedom of expression in Poland, a Warsaw court ordered two historians to publicly apologize for part of their research into a Holocaust pogrom. In their 2018 book “Night Without an End,” a 1,700-page tome about Polish collaboration during World War II, historians Jan Grabowski and Barbara Engelking wrote that Edward Malinowski, the late mayor of the village of Malinowo, told Nazi offi...

Community Bulletin Board: the Suburban (for Feb. 10)   New Jersey’s virtual Summer Camp Fair is open for registration, welcoming families who are looking for a safe and rewarding experience for their child. NJ Camp Fair’s goal, in collaboration with The American Camp Association, and the entire camp community, is to bring thoughts of a normal summer, and to make summer camp a reality. Summer camps are expected to re-open whether it is an in-person, hybrid or virtual camp. From 10 a.m. to 3...

Late last year, Staszewski sent emails to Polish and Norwegian officials asking for clarification on funds intended for so-called "LGBTQ-free zones". In response, he was sent correspondence between Frode Dal Fjeldavli, the head of funds at Norway Grants, a financial mechanism funded by a consortium of European countries, and Izabela Barczyk-Olszewska, the fund operator of the regional funds for Ecorys Polska, which Staszewski published on his blog. In the letter, Norway Grants cancelled the gr...

That would be Stellantis-owned Jeep as of January 2021. Stellantis is a newly formed multinational automobile manufacturer which is the result of a merger of French automaker Groupe PSA and Italian-owned Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles. The five-pointed Red Star has long been an international symbol of communism and/or socialism.  It is banned as a political symbol in some former Warsaw Pact countries because it is said to represent a totalitarian political ideology. But Jeep as a brand and a vehicl...

Send to Kindle The Army is concentrating this year’s major European Defender exercise on training for high-end warfare in the Balkans and the Black Sea, the service’s top general there said last week. Speaking at an online forum of the Association of the United States Army, Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command, said final planning is underway for the exercise scheduled for late spring or early summer. It would take place around the Black Sea,...

The process of drafting national recovery plans under time pressure seems to be a handful for Visegrad countries. Frequent issues include a lack of stakeholder involvement, problems with streamlining different requests and ensuring transparency in the process. The €672.5 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is the main component of the EU’s €750bn recovery plan from the coronavirus crisis, dubbed ‘Next Generation EU‘. Member states are currently preparing their national reco...

Ankara’s 2017 decision to purchase $2.5 billion worth of S-400 air defence systems from Moscow caused serious complications in its relationship with its US allies, with...

Poland's biggest power group PGE and Danish counterpart Orsted have struck a deal to jointly develop two offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea that could generate enough electricity to power four million homes.

Estonia’s first ambassador to Mali presents her credentials By 80shares On Monday, 8 February, Ingrid Amer, Estonia’s first ambassador to Mali, presented her credentials to the West African country’s president of the transition, Bah N’Daw; Estonia and Mali are closely linked by defence cooperation – Estonia is currently part of three missions aimed at bolstering Mali’s security. After the presentation ceremony, N’Daw and Amer spoke about the bilateral relations of Estonia and ...

Modern Diplomacy Published 2 months ago “2020 has been a disastrous year for human rights in Europe,” commented Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, at a speech in front of the Council of Europe at the end of last year. In an unprecedented fashion, the COVID-19 pandemic (C-19) has brought to fore a tremendous increase in human rights violations in 2020 throughout the world. According to Reporters Without Borders’ tracker 19 mapping human rights cases of abu...