Mateusz Morawiecki

Karpacz – Prime Minister Janez Janša has received the award for person of the year in Central and Eastern Europe at the Economic Forum in Karpacz, Poland. In his speech, he underlined the region’s key role in the bloc and its Christian heritage.

Karpacz – Prime Minister Janez Janša will attend the 30th Economic Forum in Karpacz, Poland this evening. Janša will participate in a panel on post-Covid recovery and receive an award for person of the year in Central and Eastern Europe, his office said.

However, it comes in the context of an already tense situation on Belarus' borders with Poland and the Baltics, after weeks during which Aleksandr Lukashenko's regime has been pushing migrants, primarily from the Middle East and Afghanistan, into the EU, partly in retaliation for sanctions Brussels imposed on it for a rigged presidential election in 2020 and a subsequent violent crackdown on de

As it is stated, that is the strategic interest of both sides.
European Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Vrhelyi pointed out that the issue of enlargement is not only the geographical enlargement of the EU, but it is about ensuring political, economic and even security integration.

Stoltenberg assessed that the crisis is a new hybrid attack of Belarus and that NATO will react because of that.

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (R) welcomes Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (L) July 13. Von der Leyen said she had a 'good exchange' with Morawiecki. Photo: EPA/EFE Pascal Rossignol

"We declare the taking of all possible measures - including those to be undertaken in cooperation with the Visegrad Group - in order to provide families with the best possible conditions for functioning," it concludes.

Ljubljana – Senior Slovenian officials have condemned actions by Belarus after a Rynair flight was forced to land in Minsk. Prime Minister Janez Janša voiced support for sanctions, while President Borut Pahor and the Foreign Ministry called for an independent investigation.

Police officers detain journalist Roman Protasevich attempting to cover a rally in Minsk, Belarus, 26 March 2017. Photo: EPA-EFE/STRINGER

Belarus has been accused of "hijacking" a civilian airliner by forcing a Ryanair passenger flight to land in the country using a fake bomb threat so that authorities could arrest a prominent critic of its authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.