The country’s government is centrist, with deep ties to Brussels. Its new president is a Trump-backed nationalist. That ...

Young men and a bit of help from Donald Trump? National conservative Karol Nawrocki won a narrow victory in Sunday's ...

As another chancellor, Helmut Kohl, put it in the mid-1990s, if Germany did not now tether itself to its east as it had done to its west with France, it would “slide about like loose ballast on a ship ...

away from the north-south axis of Paris and Berlin towards an east-west one now bracketed by the UK and Poland, and away from states that claim historical ownership of the EU and towards states that ...

The historical East-West divide also manifests itself culturally – for example, while Poland as a whole is overwhelmingly Catholic, residents of the East are more devout. In recent elections ...

A nationalist candidate backed by Donald Trump was on course to win Poland’s presidential election, defeating the centrist ...

Surging inflation in smaller euro-zone nations is redrawing the economic divide between the continent’s east and west. In the Baltic region, where inflation is the bloc’s quickest and has ...