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A bar mleczny, or “milk bar,” is a uniquely Polish institution.

Where local ‘milk bars’ feel more like Soviet IKEAs

No-frills state-subsidised canteens dish up hearty Polish fare at prices that haven’t budged much since Stalin.

  • Natasha Bazika

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Only getting bigger… the humble bagel.

Everything about a bagel is great, except one thing

They may have been described as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis”, but the bagel is only getting bigger.

  • Ben Groundwater
Migrants run across the beach at first light last month to board small boats that had come to collect them in Gravelines, France, for the journey across the English Channel.

Poland, Germany deepen row over asylum seekers as vigilantes patrol border

Far-right vigilantes have also begun patrolling the border to prevent asylum seekers moving between the two countries.

  • David Crowe
On the campaign trail, Karol Nawrocki assailed Prime Minister Donald Tusk for, in his telling, jeopardising Poland’s traditionally strong relations with the United States.

Caught between two Wests, Poland tilts towards the Trumpian model

After Romania’s recent rejection of a nationalist candidate who had declared himself a “candidate on the MAGA ticket”, liberals had hoped that Europe’s right-wing populist wave was receding. Those hopes evaporated on Monday.

  • Andrew Higgins
The Motlawa River and old town in Gdansk, Poland.

Port guide: Gdansk, Poland

Eastern Europe’s great port city takes you from medieval trading times to the anti-Soviet movement, and into a lively 21st-century revival.

  • Brian Johnston
Poland’s Radek Sikorski

Ex-war reporter turned foreign minister leading the charge to keep Russia – and China – in check

At a time when Europe’s leadership has been diffuse and distracted, Radek Sikorski has emerged as one of the West’s most forceful voices.

  • Rob Harris
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French President Emmanuel Macron holds a meeting in Paris on Thursday with representatives of industries affected by the US tariffs.

‘Brutal’: Macron vows to protect Europe after US lands shock trade blow

The French president has called on EU nations to stop all investment in the United States after Donald Trump announced a 20 per cent tariff on European imports.

  • James Crisp, Nick Squires, James Rothwell and Sarah Newey
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks at the Sejm, the lower house of parliament, in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday. European countries are preparing for a future without the United States in their corner.

Poland to train ‘every adult male for war’

Donald Tusk also suggested his country would be safer with its own nuclear arsenal, now the US appears to be abandoning its NATO allies.

  • James Rothwell
Holocaust survivor Stanislaw Zalewski.

‘The consequence of being considered different is active persecution’

On the anniversary of the death camp liberation, Auschwitz survivors warn the hatred that led to the horror is ever present.

  • Rob Harris
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At Auschwitz, a solemn 80th anniversary ceremony is held amid global rise in antisemitism

Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism, as world leaders gathered to mark 80 years since the Nazi German death camp was liberated.

  • Rob Harris

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/poland-ed6