Polish leaders are holding a welcome ceremony for the biggest deployment of US troops to Europe in decades.

The first victim in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market was a 37-year-old Polish truck driver who was seemingly stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck.

Update 11.55pm: Eight workers have been killed after a cave-in at a Polish copper mine.

The new British Prime Minister is continuing her whirlwind diplomacy tour of Europe with a visit to Italy.

The UK’s vote to leave the EU reflects a global trend in which people left behind by globalisation embrace a murky blend of nostalgia and nationalism, writes British historian Owen Matthews.

As Poland braces for a credit review by Moody’s Investors Service, the only question for economists is how bad the news is going to be.

Even before the Paris attacks, the mood in Central Europe was decidedly anti-migrant, with fences going up on borders, a Syrian beaten on a Polish street last week and the rhetoric sharp across the region.

The right-wing and anti-migrant Law and Justice party has won a majority of seats in Poland’s parliament and can govern alone, the state election authority announced yesterday.