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Raphael Minder

Central Europe Correspondent

Raphael Minder is the FT's Central Europe correspondent, based in Warsaw. He previously covered Spain and Portugal for the New York Times. He rejoined the FT in 2022, having reported between 2000 and 2010 from Paris, Brussels, Sydney and Hong Kong as the FT's Asia regional correspondent. He is the author of two books about Spain. He is Swiss and started in journalism with Bloomberg News in Zurich.
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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Poland
    Donald Tusk says Poland will shield Netanyahu from arrest at Auschwitz

    Polish premier insists ICC warrant will not be enforced after President Duda demands immunity for Israeli leader

    Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, meets Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw in 2019
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Poland
    Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees

    Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears

    Maciej Duszczyk, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration
  • Sunday, 5 January, 2025
    Poland
    Polish wealth managers warn against tax changes for family foundations

    Structure was set up in 2023 to encourage money to stay in the country

    Flags of Poland on facade of a building waving in the wind on sunny day
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Poland
    Poland pledges to seal off border with Belarus

    Completing frontier wall will bring EU nation ‘as close to 100% security as possible’, says deputy migration minister

    A guard opens a barbed wire gate near the Polish-Belarusian border
  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin meets Slovakia’s Fico in rare visit by an EU leader since Ukraine invasion

    Slovak prime minister has ‘one-on-one’ meeting at Kremlin as Ukraine prepares to halt transit of Russian gas

    Vladimir Putin and Robert Fico greet each other at the Kremlin
  • Friday, 20 December, 2024
    EU eastern tensions
    Poland and Hungary spar over fugitive ex-minister

    Warsaw threatens legal action after Budapest grants asylum to PiS lawmaker facing arrest for alleged fraud

    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, talks to his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán at a European Council summit in Brussels in March
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Poland auctions butter reserve as soaring prices spread to politics

    Government’s strategic reserves agency to sell 1,000 tonnes in frozen 25kg blocks of unsalted milk-based spread

    Butter, which has been rising fast in price in much of Europe, is displayed in a grocery store in Warsaw
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    OutlookLGBT+
    Warsaw’s QueerMuzeum defies anti-gay hostility in Poland

    The nation’s first LGBTQ museum offers hope for a community still struggling with inequality

    Two women kiss inside a museum
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Rafał Brzoska
    Polish billionaire seeks support for ‘deepfake’ scams lawsuit against Meta

    InPost founder Rafał Brzoska wants 150 prominent figures to join move against Facebook parent over AI-created images

    Omenaa Mensah and Rafał Brzoska attend a Cannes gala in France
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Poland
    Poland’s former spy chief arrested over refusal to testify to parliament

    Piotr Pogonowski forcibly taken to parliamentary hearing over alleged government misuse of spyware

    Piotr Pogonowski
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    InterviewTransport
    Advent-backed Polish parcel locker group bets on UK

    InPost chief Rafał Brzoska says company could spend more than €1bn on acquisitions

    Rafał Brzoska in his office in Warsaw, Poland
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    EU energy
    EU’s outgoing energy chief warns against masking Russian gas imports

    Kadri Simson says talks with Azerbaijan would allow Gazprom to continue exporting to central Europe

    Kadri Simson speaks at the European parliament
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Slovakia
    Slovakia’s central bank governor given reprieve in corruption case

    Peter Kažimír spared from facing trial because of overhaul of penal code introduced by his old ally Robert Fico

    Peter Kažimír
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Poland
    Poland kicks off presidential campaign with push for World War II exhumations

    Kyiv agrees to allow Warsaw to investigate mass graves where Polish nationals were buried

    A woman stands next to the monument holding a sign and a man in a historical military uniform holds a flag.
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    EU defence
    Tusk calls for naval patrols in Baltic Sea to counter Russian sabotage

    Polish PM urges Europe to act against threats from Moscow without waiting for cues from US

    Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference in Warsaw, Poland
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    InterviewEuropean banks
    Polish bank chief warns capital shortage will affect green transition

    Szymon Midera says mortgage mis-selling costs have depleted funds available to finance switch towards renewables

    Szymon Midera, chief executive of state-controlled PKO BP
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Mercosur
    Poland backs French effort to kill Mercosur trade deal

    Prime Minister Donald Tusk wants to protect EU’s largest poultry producers

    Polish farmers with Polish flags are seen blocking the road to the Ukrainian border crossing at Medyka-Shehyni last weekend
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Vista Outdoor
    Czech takeover of US ammunition maker Kinetic wins shareholder approval

    Sale by Vista Outdoor comes after battle that sparked fierce Republican opposition

    Bullets in a box
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    Poland
    Warsaw’s mayor to face rightwing historian in Polish presidential race

    Liberal Rafał Trzaskowski will be pitted against Karol Nawrocki, candidate for opposition PiS party

    Karol Nawrocki
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Poland
    Poland urges EU to spend more on eastern defences ahead of Trump’s return

    Warsaw has largest military budget among Nato allies

    Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka in her Warsaw office
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Germany
    Severing of Baltic Sea cables likely to be sabotage, Germany says

    Defence minister Boris Pistorius says it is unclear who was responsible for ‘hybrid’ warfare tactic

    Boris Pistorius speaks to the press, surrounded by microphones from various media outlets
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Prague threatened with lawsuits as EU capitals struggle to fund green transition

    Investors in Czech solar parks threaten to sue over planned cuts to subsidies for photovoltaic installations

    Workers assemble a photovoltaic power plant in the Czech Republic
  • Sunday, 10 November, 2024
    Poland
    Tusk’s stance on migration hurts Polish economy, chiefs warn

    Visa restrictions and border crackdown deprive Poland of a much-needed foreign workforce, say business leaders

    Cherry Anne Cabulisan, a Pukta employee from the Philippines, and Oleksii Totkal, an employee from Ukraine
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Terrorism
    Poland detains four over Russian parcel bomb plot targeting US-bound flights

    European officials say DHL parcel fires were result of test runs for using similar methods to attack transatlantic flights

    A DHL cargo aircraft is parked on the tarmac at Leipzig-Halle Airport. Several ground vehicles, including a bus and cargo loaders, are visible around the plane as staff work nearby
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    The new face of European illiberalism

    Prime Minister Robert Fico has tightened his grip on Slovakia using Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán’s playbook as inspiration

    Close up shot of Robert Fico’s face
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