Tomorrow marks 20 years since Poland has joined the EU.

Compare the unemployment rate then (Poland was the worst in Europe) with no (Poland is the best in Europe, ex-aequo with Czechia).

Since 2004, 3.6M new jobs have been created in Poland, to an all-time high of 17.3M

Russia attacked Odesa yesterday with a missile carrying cluster munitions. 5 people were killed, many wounded.

Important that we can #trust what we see #online . Today, we have opened proceedings against @meta as we suspect that their online moderation on facebok and Instagram is insufficient. It lacks transparency of #ads and content moderation.
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🇵🇱☪️🇪🇬 Of course you're going to find a 'How to understand Islam' book in Polish, of all languages, at your very dusty Cairo hotel lobby, what else?

🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺 Interrupting my vacation to bring to your attention this super timely piece by Marcin on the perils of rebuilding the rule of law the hard way.

Despite Victor Orbán’s deliberate and strategic courting of Putin, European politicians ignore the security threat he poses to both the EU and Ukraine.

MARLENE WIND (Marlene Wind) on Orbán's role in Russia's hybrid war and the danger of complacency.

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🇪🇬 Cairo is one of those places where Poles realise that, after all, they come from North by Northwest.

🇵🇱🛩️ Dusky WAW.

🇵🇱🛩️🇵🇱 POZ - WAW will never not be a weird flight.

It’s 20 years on Wednesday since 10 new member states joined the EU, including Poland. I spoke to former emigrants who left Poland for Ireland in 2004, and who decided to return home in recent years - via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2024/0428…

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🇵🇱🍺🛩️🇪🇬 Urlaub begins in 24h, loading Reisefieber module.

🇪🇺 Politico profiles 21 MEPs to watch out for. Pre-2004 EU Member States: 20. 2004+ EU Member States: one (1), the one and only Valdis D., who arguably has a gravity field of his own, and it's impossible to ignore him even if you assume that CEE doesn't exist.

The government’s majority in parliament has approved a law recognising Silesian as an official regional language.

Right-wing opposition parties voted against the bill, citing linguists who say that Silesian is a dialect of Polish rather than a language notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/26/law…

✍️ The Rwanda Act is now law and the UK-Rwanda Treaty has been ratified.

🤔 But what do they intend to achieve? What is their potential impact? And why is the Rwanda policy controversial?

Dr Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald are here to explain.

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/wha…

Our Chatbot Audit prompted Google into remedial action 👋

Testing 400 Qs in 10 languages, we found inaccuracies in AI chatbots' answers on #EP2024 . Google expanded restrictions, while urging reliance on search over Gemini.

Read about it at euronews: bit.ly/3w5UiWq

Very good thread about the other big European foreign policy speech of yesterday:

Journalists in Slovakia wore black to protest an overhaul of the country's public broadcaster RTVS, as fears deepen that Fico is extending political influence over the media.

'We want to continue to work freely,' RTVS staff said.
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