UK trails Poland and Bulgaria on adults educated to A-level standard Lecturers’ union says European data shows Britain risks languishing in ‘mid-table obscurity’ due to rising cost of learning We should therefore reduce the cost of learning by paying lecturers less and having fewer of them. There, job done. Not quite what I’d expect the

Ratification of fiscal pact looks doubtful in Poland and Sweden

Donald Tusk, the Polish PM, argues that, as a country treaty-bound to join the single currency, such exclusion for Poland is unwarranted

Created to remember one of the darkest chapters in mankind's history, Holocaust Day is for many people an occasion for unadulterated discomfort. Most of my family perished in the Holocaust and those who survived either hid in occupied Poland, pretending to be Catholics, fled to Uzbekistan in the then-USSR or, like Marcel Rayman, fought the Nazis. Today I re-read a letter Marcel sent to his fa...

Ratification of fiscal pact looks doubtful in Poland and SwedenPolish PM Donald Tusk has said that if Poland is unable to secure a degree of participation rights at future eurozone economic meetings, it would be difficult for the country to sign up to the fiscal compact.

Poland, a European Union member but outside the eurozone, warned on yesterday (24 January) it could not sign up to the bloc's new treaty on tighter fiscal rules if it is not allowed to take part in meetings of the single-currency states. More »

The trio of EU presidencies "is a joke" - at least in the current form that groups Poland, Denmark and Cyprus, three countries with completely different agendas - says a prominent Brussels-based political analyst. More »

Poland's European affairs minister said the "biggest disappointment" of his country's EU presidency, largely seen as successful under the difficult circumstances of the eurozone crisis, was the failure to take on board Bulgaria and Romania in the EU border-free Schengen area. More »

Analysts from France, Germany and Poland consider EU deal

A federalist Poland would be the ideal mediator between a closer monetary union and the European Union, writes Heinrich Winkler