The Hungarian government has officially handed over the European Presidency to Poland after it’s six-month turn in the rotating post, but one aspect of the country’s largely forgettable semester in charge will remain, at least until the end of the year.
In 1993, John Godson was a Nigerian college student looking to do missionary work abroad. Through various connections he made with ministers and missionaries from around the world, he ended up moving to Poland, making him just one of a few thousand Africans in the entire country. Seventeen years later, he became Poland’s first-ever black [...]
In the early days of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, then-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe wrote to the White House that Polish leaders were beginning to fear that they had “become an afterthought, or even a nuisance, in Washington circles.”
Just days after talking to the Prague Post about his most recent charge of insulting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, journalist Andrzej Poczobut has been arrested for slandering the longtime president and is back in jail.
Polish-Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut, a writer for Poland’s daily Gazeta Wyborcza, spoke to The Prague Post after news of the most recent charge against him hit the media. The story ran in our April 6 edition, but the full interview can be read here.
Welcome to our newest blog, CEE Changes. Borne out of the Region section of our print edition, which covers the ViĊĦegrad region of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, (as well as the surrounding developing democracies and non-EU nations such as Ukraine, Belarus and some of the Baltic countries) we intend to use this blog to keep our readers updated on news from outside the Czech Republic. It could be policy news, it could be something fun or strange, or it could be a dispatch from a concert in Warsaw. We’re called The Prague Post, but we aim to inform our region.