Works / Maria Wilczek

Maria Wilczek

Freelance journalist writing for The Times and The Economist. Contributor to Foreign Policy, Politico Europe, Balkan Insider, The Spectator and Gazeta Wyborcza.

Marjorie Deane intern at The Economist in 2018. Previously a business consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (2017-2019).

Graduate of University of Oxford (BA PPE, MPhil Politics). Student at the Polish School of Literary Reportage, class of 2021.

Lived in Turkey, Romania and the UK. Now based in Warsaw.

The Times • 13th November 2021

‘The guards at the Poland-Belarus border kicked us like footballs’

Desperate migrants tell of the horrors on the Poland-Belarus frontier (w Paulina Olszanka)

Maria Wilczek

Maria Wilczek

EU suspends asylum rules to speed up deportations

Royal Engineers prepare for deployment to Polish border

Poland warns 50 million migrants could be coming to Europe

Interview: Russia, France and Germany respond to Poland's migrant crisis

Belarus border crisis escalates with tear gas fired at migrants

Belarus soldiers urge migrants to march on border flashpoint

Interview: border flashpoint & Independence Day events across Poland

‘The guards at the Poland-Belarus border kicked us like footballs’

Belarus warns it will cut off Europe’s gas in border row

Russian bombers back Belarus in Polish border fight

Putin accused of pulling strings in Poland border crisis

Interview: escalation on Poland's border with Belarus

Belarus soldiers ‘escorting hundreds of migrants’ towards Polish border

Protests after woman who was denied abortion in Poland dies

Walesa charged with perjury over spying accusations

Build wall to halt migrants, German state chief tells EU

As Poland's Sunday trading ban loophole closes, retailers consider new tricks

Polish miners descend on European court in Luxembourg to save pit

Interview: Warsaw-Brussels face off & a beer-swigging bear

Memorials defaced to pin blame for war on Germany, not Nazis