Justyna Pawlak

Our bureau chief’s guide to river ferries, wartime relics and vegan plates.

In the lobby of a tired hotel near Doha airport, stranded travellers wear identical fake Adidas T-shirts bought from a nearby store and swap tips on where to buy underwear.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai is the second Hungarian to win the prize, after Imre Kertesz in 2002.

If large urban centres are the core constituency of the liberal government of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, then Sunday's presidential election first round showed him struggling against an anti-establishment pushback simmering throughout Europe.

Poles vote in a presidential election on Sunday that the pro-European government in Warsaw says can revive its stalled democratic drive and its nationalist opponents see as a chance to set Poland on a path inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday there was no "Plan B" on European Union aid for Ukraine and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who is stalling it must decide if Hungary is "part of our community".

Hundreds of thousands of people held an opposition rally in Warsaw on Sunday, two weeks ahead of an election that the liberal Civic Platform (PO) says may decide Poland’s future in the European Union and its democratic standing.

Poland holds a high-stakes national election on Oct. 15 that may give the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party an unprecedented third term in power and will be closely watched by Warsaw’s military allies amid the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

Poland’s plans to revamp its military command structure should help the NATO member handle the alliance’s new regional defence plans and a host of hybrid threats including those from neighbouring Belarus, a senior official has said.