Posts Tagged ‘Poland’
 

 

Europe Hashes Out Climate Change Compromise

… and shows the world what to expect from the next round of global negotiations in Paris 2015. After the EU summit in Brussels this Thursday and Friday, European leaders struck a new deal on climate change and energy poli...
by Mathias Einberger
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EURO 2012 UPDATE: Nationalist Riots

Nationalism and footballing sympathies came to a head in Warsaw on Tuesday prior to the second leg of the EURO 2012 group stages, in a match between historical and political rivals Russia and Poland in their first meeting since...
by Colin Busby
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Fast For Climate Justice

Typhoon Haiyan served as a stark reminder to delegates at the UN climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland last year. It also spurred a chain of fasting for climate justice. Last year Yeb Saño, lead delegate for the Filipi...
by Ayesha Constable
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COP19: Day One

The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
by Kahil Lloyd
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Reforming The EU’s Cohesion Funds

The city of Bytom lies at the heart of Silesia – a region in the south of Poland that used to be the industrial center of the country. Through the second half of the 20th century, the Communist government fostered steel and ...
by Greg Janota
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“Why Edward Snowden Wishes He’d Sought Asylum In Poland”

The Polish vodka Sobieski states on its website that vodka’s “birthplace was in Poland” and not in Russia, as many believe. However what draws attention to the product is the use of whistleblower Edward Snowden in...
by Robert Valencia
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The Liberation Of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp

January 27th marked the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland by the Red Army. This date signifies the end to a site that facilitated some of the worlds most heinous and utterl...
by Jamal Russell Black
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Brave New World: The significance of Cuba at the Summit of the Americas

In 2013, US President Barack Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro, shook hands at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, and it took the world by surprise. After five decades of separation, it appeared somethin...
by Simon Fraser
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