Tag: Polish

Gazprom wins appeal against 6.2 bn euro Polish fine

WARSAW, Poland (AFP) – A Polish court on Monday overturned a decision by Poland’s anti-monopoly watchdog to impose a 6.2 billion euro ($6.3 billion) fine against Russian gas giant Gazprom, the watchdog said. The fine imposed in 2020 against Gazprom and five other companies, including British-Dutch giant Shell, was over construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Supplies through the gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany have since been halted because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. […]

Polish pedophile priests exposed in new report

  WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — A foundation supporting victims of pedophile priests in Poland on Thursday released a report documenting nearly 400 cases of sex abuse by clergymen in the staunchly Catholic country. The publication of the 27-page report, which activists presented to Catholic Church’s Pope Francis on Wednesday, coincided with the pontiff gathering the world’s top Catholic bishops at the Vatican at a summit on tackling clerical sex abuse. Images broadcast on Polish television […]

Polish owner of Berlin lorry says driver ‘missing’

WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — The Polish owner of the lorry that ploughed into a Berlin market on Monday, killing at least nine people in what police said was a possible terror attack, confirmed his driver was missing. “We haven’t heard from him since this afternoon. We don’t know what happened to him. He’s my cousin, I’ve known him since I was a kid. I can vouch for him,” transport company owner Ariel Zurawski told AFP. […]