Pressure begins to ease at border as migrants brought to Belarusian-run warehouse

Gen Nick Carter does not think Russia wants physical war but says Nato must be united

Some 4,000 people are sitting in the no-man’s land between Poland and Ukraine

Leaders of opposing countries accuse Putin and EU respectively of orchestrating crisis

Polish politicians fear a deliberate provocation by Belarus could cause serious incident involving migrants at EU’s eastern border

European Court of Justice imposes penalty in escalating rift over Polish judicial reforms

Fiery scenes at European Parliament as opposing sides entrench positions in speeches

Ireland breaks with likeminded countries to accuse Poland of going ‘too far’

Ireland outspoken on issue as fellow member states try to de-escalate row

Polish court’s bombastic ruling rejecting supremacy of EU law has politics at its heart

The five-year debate on Poland’s rule of law has been brought to a head by a court decision in Warsaw

Mateusz Morawiecki accuses opposition of spreading lies about a possible ‘Polexit’

Polish court takes first step towards departure from EU

Poland to still respect EU law, foreign ministry says after constitutional court ruling

Constitutional court finds that the Court of Justice of the European Union is not Poland’s supreme legal authority

Warsaw and Baltic states say Minsk regime must take responsibility for influx

Legislation to curb foreign-owned media criticised for curtailing press freedom

EU to analyse Warsaw’s response to its concerns over threat to judicial independence

The EU’s core values on justice and media must be defended

Opposition says bill aims to gag US-owned channel that is critical of Poland’s right-wing government

Zbigniew Ziobro accuses European Court of Justice of having a ‘colonial mentality’

Ukrainian police open murder case after Vitaly Shishov found hanged in Kiev park

Move intensifies row over whether EU should withhold funds from countries that reject rules

Polish Bill aims to provide greater certainty for property owners against historical claims

Initiative to set up dialogue with Russia rebuffed by several leaders in Brussels

Video emerges of journalist Roman Protasevich as leaders call for his release

Belarus’s ‘unprecedented actions’ to detain activist spark widespread concern

Moscow and EU and Nato capitals continue wave of diplomatic expulsions

Prioritising athletes for vaccination has proved controversial in some countries

Junior government party United Poland threatening to withhold support for new measure

Nationalists call for return to ‘traditional values’ and limits on EU power

Two more ministers quit Slovak cabinet in crisis sparked by Russian vaccine row

Ireland joins EU and US in decrying arrest and calling for investigation into poisoning

Nationalist leaders claim victory in dispute over tying €1.85tn package to rule of law

Poland and Hungary, backed by Slovenia, are vetoing an agreement on the budget in a bid to strip out a ‘rule of law’ mechanism tying payments of EU money to adherence to European values

Hard bargaining ahead as Hungary and Poland seek to resist rule of law criteria

Several countries report record case numbers while virus disrupts Brussels summit

Russia sees record rise in cases and Poland's premier goes into quarantine

Reshuffle also elevates another hard-right politician, Przemyslaw Czarnek

Andrzej Duda warns Poles to be vigilant against ‘foreign’ attempts to co-opt nation’s identity