Poland in the UK

Undersecretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz met in London on 18 November with James Cleverly, UK Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa, and Wendy Morton, UK Under Secretary of State for European Neighbourhood and the Americas.

On 12th and 14th of November 2021, a series of music concerts was held in the newly renovated Polish Ex-Combatants House. Presented music included amongst others that of Feliks Janiewicz (1762-1848), an outstanding Polish violinist and composer, a musician of great importance for the Scottish music scene and a co-founder of the first Edinburgh Music Festival in 1815, whose work is unknown in Scotland.

On 11 November 1918, 103 years ago, Poland regained its independence. On this day, after his release from the Magdeburg Fortress, Józef Piłsudski took over military command from the Regency Council and, three days later, assumed supreme authority over civilian matters, to finally “as Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army [...] notify belligerent and neutral governments and nations” of the reappearance of “the reborn and independent Republic of Poland” on the map. After 123 years of captivity, Poland became a sovereign and internationally recognised state.

On Saturday, 6 November, the participants of The eMobi Road to COP26 initiative visited London. The initiative, organised by the Polish Chamber of Electromobility Development Association (PIRE), is a drive by electric cars through Europe to Glasgow to present a petition for the establishment of a World Electromobility Day by the United Nations at the COP26 climate conference.

On Sunday, 17 October 2021, Professor John Rink, an authority on the works of Fryderyk Chopin, and a Chopin Piano Competition juror, received the Bene Merito honorary distinction during a ceremony at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw. The ceremony was attended by Head of the Foreign Service Arkady Rzegocki, Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute Artur Szklener, as well as the jurors of the 18th Chopin Piano Competition and distinguished guests from the world of culture.

On Monday, 4 September at the St Francis of Assisi Church in London, the funeral of Karolina Kaczorowska, the last Polish First Lady in Exile, wife of the last President of Poland in Exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, émigré activist and teacher, took place.

The charging fees issues for educational services by public universities are regulated in the Act of 20 July 2018, Law on Higher Education and Science, and in the case of non-public universities, they result from the internal regulations of these universities.

Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been receiving reports of phone scams in which fraudsters claim to be either MFA’s employees or employees of Polish missions abroad to get the call recipients perform certain actions, especially money transfers. Usually, during the phone conversation scammers will inform you that you have failed to follow certain procedures or provided partial or false data while filling out forms, which will allegedly bring about legal consequences.

With the holiday season in full swing, we kick off the third edition of the social media campaign to discover hidden Polish treasures around Britain!