Poland has promised Netanyahu safe passage to an Auschwitz memorial service. Former and current EU officials are speaking out.

Mainstream EU leaders have breathed a sigh of relief. After a Hungarian presidency marked by what they saw as damaging freelance diplomacy, the torch has now passed to Poland, which holds the reins

It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break through the border to provoke and destabilize Poland and the rest of Europe.

Poland assumed the six-month presidency of the EU Council. Its theme, unsurprisingly, is security. With Russia advancing on the battlefield and Donald Trump’s commitment to NATO uncertain, Europe’s eastern border is looking wobbly.

Poland joined other EU countries in allowing the Israeli leader entry without threat of arrest, this time for a ceremony commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz — which Netanyahu had no intention of attending anyway.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that protecting borders is a 'sacred duty', but humanitarian organisations have expressed concerns. View on euronews

WARSAW - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk favours cutting benefits for refugees and migrants living and working in Poland, including Ukrainians - a proposal first put forward by the opposition PiS party.

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It’s urged Poland “to drastically change course of action" and do all it can to protect migrants and refugees. But EU leaders signed off on Poland’s actions at a summit last month.

A historian of the Holocaust and curator of the Auschwitz exhibition, now in Toronto, invites all who gather on Jan. 27 to also consider the date’s political origins.

Polish president talks about Trump’s return, security and EU challenges | Talk to Al Jazeera As Poland assumes the European Union Council presidency, President Andrzej Duda talks to Al Jazeera about navigating critical challenges.

A six-phase “road map” prepared by the EU’s foreign service advocates a “staged approach” to lifting sanctions on the country “to incentivise peaceful transition and reconstruction”. An arms embargo, sanctions on equipment used for internal repression and measures targeting Assad regime officials would be exempt, the document states.