Poland in Iceland

The EU Stands with Ukraine is a joint op-ed by the Ambassador of the EU, the Ambassadors of EU Member States, and the Chargé d'Affaires of Spain. The joint op-ed was published in Morgunblaðið on 24. february 2024 to mark two years of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine.

Since 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation started its unjustified and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we have been witnessing appalling scenes of harm, pain, and suffering inflicted on hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians for days on end. The tragic lot of millions of civilian refugees, mostly women and children, and the enormity of damage and destruction caused by the war bring to mind the darkest periods in the contemporary history of Europe and the world.

On December 6th, 2021 the Platform Culture Central Europe (PCCE) presented a concert of film music “Cinema in Music – Central European Composers for the Cinema” at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik.

When on 3 May 1791 the Four-Year Sejm also called the Great Sejm adopted The Government Act of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth later known as the Constitution of 3 May, the Polish-Lithuanian state became the Europe’s first and the world’s second that passed the basic law. For its time, it was a progressive and bold legal act which initiated a number of reforms. It also constituted a crowning achievement of the centuries-old links between Poland and Lithuania.

On the occasion of the upcoming Easter, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland Gerard Pokruszyński together with the team of the Polish Embassy, would like to wish you all, good health, happiness and joy, especially during the difficult time of the pandemic.

For the German economy, the countries of the Visegrad Group are more important than China, writes the German daily Tagesspiegel Christoph in the Saturday edition.

Thirty years ago, on 15 February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czechoslovakia, and the prime minister of Hungary signed the Declaration on Cooperation between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary in Striving for European Integration in the castle of Visegrad, Hungary.

27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In order to honor victims of the holocaust, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Reykajvik would like to present letter from Ambassador Gerard Pokruszyński, online message received from Polish Ambassador to the State of Israel – Marek Magierowski and concert performed by brothers Nikodem and Mikołaj Frach.