Central Europe correspondent for The Financial Times, based in Warsaw. Previously New York Times in Spain. Book author of "¿Esto es España?" Views are my own.
Madrid
Joined September 2011
- Tweets2.9K
- Following1.4K
- Followers18.3K
- Likes342
A bomb threat closed down temporarily Warsaw's Modlin airport today, while another scare on a plane landing at Chopin airport forced a runway closure. Coordinated attacks? In any case, a day of high alert across European skies. ft.com/content/f1122a7d-f27b… via @ft
Poland’s struggle to restore the rule of law ft.com/content/551ece11-bd7c… via @ft
Sirens, daily text message alerts and airport flight suspensions have become the new and worrying reality of life in eastern Poland as Russian attacks on Ukraine reach across the Polish border. as.ft.com/r/d45e85a7-04b7-44…
After the suspension of top constitutional court judges, Polish Prime Minister Tusk has pledged the tribunal will "function as it should" under a new leadership, even as the opposition accuses him of an institutional coup. as.ft.com/r/9bd2acaa-0f46-4f…
Raphael Minder retweeted
Poland. The use of police forces at the Constitutional Court is a deeply troubling episode in the life of a country governed by the rule of law.
The Polish constitutional dispute should be resolved through other means. European rulings must be respected. Once you become a member of the European Union, you are expected to abide by its rules and principles.
I understand the arguments put forward by the Polish government, but police forces should have no place in a constitutional court. Such a situation is unprecedented in a democratic country.
Poland's battle over the rule of law has intensified after the head of the country’s constitutional court and his deputy were suspended, threatening a fresh political crisis in the country. as.ft.com/r/fa629e10-b8fb-44…
Polish cars are driving around Naples, imported by Italian crime gangs to avoid taxes and insurance premiums as.ft.com/r/de544904-8e05-4a…
Poland’s central bank is trapped in the fight between Tusk's government and the PiS opposition and likely to enter judicial limbo soon due to fight over management nominees.as.ft.com/r/176d800a-6060-48… via @financialtimes
The Polish-Ukrainian relationship has been undermined by tensions over atrocities committed in the 1940s. But now Ukraine is fast tracking permits to exhume Polish victims, as was long demanded by Warsaw. as.ft.com/r/72f0ae86-380a-45…
Ukraine has agreed to speed up Polish requests to exhume the remains of Poles killed during the second world war, a breakthrough that could ease one of the most sensitive disputes between the two neighbours. as.ft.com/r/91e02a14-7875-4b…
In Poland's crypto scandal, who will be next? Following the arrest of the Olympic committee boss, PM Tusk has its sights on more politicians and friends of the opposition PiS party, who got helped by Zondacrypto's money. ft.com/content/f87d893e-24db… via @ft
The head of the Polish Olympic Committee has been detained as part of a fraud investigation into a collapsed cryptocurrency platform with links to the country’s rightwing opposition. PM Tusk is promising this is only the start of the Zondacrypto scandal. as.ft.com/r/b049902e-ce83-49…
Poland's new party leader Morawiecki aims to appeal to younger voters and those also turned off by the "radicalisation" of PiS under Kaczyński. “I’m the kind of guy who can talk to almost everybody,” Morawiecki told the FT. ft.com/content/7353d4b4-23f5… via @ft
There are over half a million job vacancies for truck drivers in the EU. That's a big problem particularly for Poland, which has built the EU's largest fleet of trucks and made road transport a cornerstone of its economy. ft.com/content/75af4431-56ef… via @ft
Poland has the EU's largest fleet of trucks, but also a critical shortage of drivers. The number of unfilled truck driver positions in the EU has more than doubled in two years to reach 502,000 in 2025. as.ft.com/r/eb34de1d-7476-4e…
The Czech central bank is resisting "mistimed" economic plans resulting from the political dispute between the country's prime minister and president. Governor Michl warned against both cutting rates now and joining the euro too early. as.ft.com/r/d2500489-bdee-47…
Russia accused of planning attacks on Baltic or Polish infrastructure ft.com/content/cf491cc6-f236… via @ft
Polish opposition leader Kaczyński has called for Warsaw to block Ukraine's EU accession talks, on the day that his rival Premier Tusk inaugurated a Ukraine recovery conference. Tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv are running high. as.ft.com/r/14e4f7ca-16ae-4d…
Who should represent Prague at the Nato summit in Ankara? Czech President Pavel, who is a former Nato commander, is now asking the constitutional court to intervene after PM Babiš blocked him from attending. as.ft.com/r/95e3c9f8-ce3d-47…
Zelenskyy returns Polish state medal in escalating dispute with ally via @FT
as.ft.com/r/83ac0963-03ed-44…
