Poland in the EU

Polish flags at the Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU are being flown at half-mast on 27th January to pay tribute and mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in the spirit of Pope Francis’ words, obliges us to expressly fight against all acts that trample on human dignity: racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism. We cannot allow the truth to be ignored or manipulated for immediate political needs – we read in the Statement issued by the Presidency of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE) and the President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) on behalf of the bishops of Europe.

On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated the German Nazi death camp KL Auschwitz. What they found there continues to sow terror and elicit unequivocal moral condemnation to this day.

The Berlin conference on resolving the conflict in Libya, climate diplomacy, cooperation aimed at supporting the Sahel states and developments in the Middle East were the main points on the agenda of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels.

“We have recently witnessed attempts by President Vladimir Putin and other representatives of Russian authorities at reinterpreting the history of World War II,” Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said at the Sunday ministerial meeting of member countries of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) that was held in Brussels.

- In this crisis situation, it is necessary to maintain transatlantic unity - said minister Jacek Czaputowicz, summing up the Friday meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC), which held an extraordinary meeting in Brussels.

The European Parliament Management Innovation Day conference brought together 365 top-level officials of the European Commission, the General Secretariat of the Council and the European Parliament. Amongst the panelists was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the EU Andrzej Sados who presented Poland's position on building a strong EU economy.

The 20th century brought the world inconceivable suffering and the death of hundreds of millions of people killed in the name of sick, totalitarian ideologies. The death toll of Nazism, fascism and communism is obvious for people of our generation. It is also obvious who is responsible for those crimes – and whose pact started World War II, the most murderous conflict in the history of humankind.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski inaugurated the 2nd edition of the Polska Food Festival. The honorary guests of the festival were introduced and welcomed by the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the EU Andrzej Sadoś.

Poland will be reaching climate neutrality at its own pace, in line with its objectives - said the head of the Polish government after the end of the first day of the European Council summit in Brussels. This solution will allow Poland to carry out the energy transformation in a safe and economically beneficial way.