Polen i Norge

Eighty years ago, German aggression on Poland started the Second World War. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Polish Army put up military resistance and expected the Allies’ reaction. On 3 September 1939, France and the UK declared war on the German Reich but did not take any real military action. Poland’s tragic fate was sealed on 17 September 1939 when the Soviet Union launched the invasion of Poland from the East. The attack of the German Reich and the Soviet Union resulted from the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed by the two totalitarian regimes, a secret protocol to which effectively divided Central Europe into the so-called spheres of influence.

Utenriksministeren og hans delegasjonen hadde den 8. mai en rekke møter og samtaler med norske partnere.

On 3 December 2020, the German daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" published an interview with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki. The interview - in a a comprehensive manner - is dedicated to the EU budget issues. Below, you can find the entire text of the interview.

Thirty years ago, on 15 February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czech Republic, 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.