On Thursday 26 January, the European Commission approved a Polish State aid scheme worth €21 million to compensate tourism companies for damages suffered as a result of Poland’s restrictive measures in response to the instrumentalisation of migrants by the Belarusian authorities’ at the EU’s external border.
On 2 September 2021, Poland declared a state of emergency in part of the Podlaskie and Lubelskie provinces, in an area approximately three kilometres long, located on the...