What did reports from Romania and Poland show by 24 September 2023?
A look back at two regional stories from Romania and Poland reported in the days before that date.
What was being reported in Central and Eastern Europe as of 24 September 2023? Two stories from the days before that date stood out.
On 21 September 2023, an explosion at a gas pipeline in Vrancea County, Romania, killed four people and injured five others.
On 19 September 2023, in the context of the 2023 Polish parliamentary election, reports described a cash-for-visa scandal. Documents allegedly from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated that the Polish embassy in Minsk, Belarus, had issued 784,173 visas to individuals from 65 countries with the aid of a Moscow-based company.
The documents also suggested that people who had been denied entry at the Belarus-European Union border during the Belarus–European Union border crisis may have been granted visas.
