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For this border crisis, Poles extend a warm welcome, unlike last time.
In Wroclaw, they’re hosted by Robert and Hana Reisigová-Kielawski, an English language college teacher and a human-resources supervisor, who reside with their two kids. The couple didn’t have a spare room within the residence in order that they moved their 5-year-old daughter to their bed room.
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“As we waited for his or her arrival, we acquired nervous,” Mr. Reisigová-Kielawski mentioned. “We had no thought what bodily and emotional state they’d be in. I questioned how we should always behave in an effort to be as useful as attainable, but in addition not overwhelm them. Which points ought to we talk about and that are finest left unsaid?”
One factor was clear from the start: They wouldn’t ask their visitors how lengthy they have been planning to remain. Their invitation didn’t have an expiration date.
However each time they requested if Ms. Fedchyk wanted something, she would say, “No, thanks. We’re simply right here for just a few days.” Because the invasion unfolded, nevertheless, it turned evident that these days may flip into weeks, maybe longer.
For the reason that warfare started, Ukrainians on each side of the border have confronted uncertainty. In Poland, the federal government is making ready an emergency invoice that may make it simpler for Ukrainians to entry the labor market and a number of the social advantages obtainable to everlasting residents.
Commentators have identified that the nice and cozy welcome Ukrainian refugees have obtained stands in stark distinction to the general public response to the humanitarian disaster on the border with Belarus, which peaked in October. The federal government didn’t open the border to these refugees, most from the Center East, and it banned help employees from the border area — insurance policies broadly supported by Poles.
The Reisigová-Kielawskis, lengthy lively in varied refugee-support packages, have been annoyed.
“Throughout that disaster the federal government made it extraordinarily troublesome for Poles to assist refugees, and sadly many individuals selected to look away,” Mr. Reisigová-Kielawski mentioned, including. “The grassroots motion to assist Ukrainians, which we’re seeing for the time being, is immense and heartwarming, however I’ve the impression that it’s also lined with a way of guilt that as a society we didn’t do sufficient again then.”
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Tourist plane crashes onto highway in France, killing three: video
Horrifying video shows the aftermath of a deadly tourist plane crash on a highway in France on Sunday.
The crash took place on the A4 highway near Collegien, a small commune in the Seine-et-Marne region of the country. Collegien is roughly 18 miles east of Paris.
Three people, a woman and two men, were killed in the crash. According to Storyful, the plane had two other occupants, but their statuses are unknown.
Social media footage shows bumper-to-bumper traffic next to the mangled plane, which appeared to be lying upside down.
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In the video, smoke was billowing from the scene as emergency officials tended to the crash.
Local prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier told the French newspaper Le Parisian that the pilot “very likely” hit a high voltage line shortly after the plane took off. Local reports say that Bladier is investigating the situation as a possible involuntary manslaughter.
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Plane crashes next to or on highways are rare. In August 2023, a small aircraft crashed on the side of a Malaysian highway, killing at least nine people.
In February, two people died in a plane crash on Interstate 75 in Naples, Florida.
French authorities are actively investigating the situation. No other information is known at this time.
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Far-right win in France would not change Labour's EU plans – Starmer
The UK Labour leader expressed willingness to work with any government in Europe.
Labour leader Keir Starmer has said he will press on with plans to re-negotiate part of the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) with the European Union, even if the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen enters government in France.
Starmer – whose Labour party is topping opinion polls ahead of Thursday’s general election – told reporters on the campaign trail on Monday that he didn’t think a far-right win in France would change his party’s “overall intention” of negotiating “a better deal with the EU.”
The UK general election is sandwiched between the two rounds of snap legislative elections in France, abruptly convened by President Emmanuel Macron in what has been described as a high-stakes political gamble.
The far-right National Rally – which has seen its support bolstered under the leadership of Le Pen’s 28-year old protégé Jordan Bardella – swept to victory with 33.4% of the national vote during the first round on Sunday.
The left-wing New Popular Front coalition came in second at 27.9% the vote, with Macron’s centrist alliance trailing third at 20.7%. It places the far-right RN as firm favourites going into the second round, although other parties may tactically remove their candidates from the race in order to block a far-right victory.
“l work with any government in Europe and across the world if we are elected in to serve the country. For me, that’s what serious government is about,” Starmer said on Monday.
But he also made a pitch for centrist forces such as his own Labour party, which is perceived to have gravitated more towards the centre-ground since he replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s leader in 2020.
“The lesson that I take from nationalism and populism, wherever it is across Europe (…) is that we need to address the everyday concerns of so many people in this country who feel disaffected by politics,” Starmer said.
“We have to take that head on and we have to show on Thursday in the UK and across Europe and the world that only progressives have the answer to the challenges that are facing us in this country and across Europe.”
The Labour leader – who campaigned to remain in the European Union ahead of the 2016 Brexit referendum – has kept details of his plan to re-open the post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels vague.
His shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested that chemicals regulation and financial services could be potential areas were a prospective Labour government could seek greater EU alignment.
Starmer has firmly assured he will not seek re-joining the EU’s single market or customs union, or allow the return of freedom of movement. A clause in the post-Brexit TCA foresees a review of the deal in 2026.
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