POLAND has celebrated "Flag Day ... of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth's 1791 written constitution, the first in Europe. But ask Polish veterans of the second world war, particularly those ...

In the 1650s, Sweden invaded and occupied the western part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Second Northern War. The conflict ... the European Union flag a "rag".

“They are defending this democracy today, and not to give them this opportunity because of war - that is unfair. I was against the elections only because of this.” Poland, Lithuania, Latvia ...