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The minister said that “some Polish people are nervous that Western governments try to import their politics, their ideology to Polish society”.“We have a specific history, difficult history,” he said. “The Catholic Church played a very important role in our history because it gives our society a power and connected Polish people during the Second World War and during the Russian occupation. So Christian values are very important for Poles.”In recent years, Poland has come under pressure from the European Union over its stance on LGBT issues.In July 2021, Brussels...

The London Stock Exchange has suffered a new blow after the British microchip company Imagination Technologies snubbed the City in favour of a Wall Street IPO.Imagination has confidentially registered to go public in New York, six years after it was taken off the London Stock Exchange and sold to a Chinese-backed fund, the Telegraph can reveal.Preparations to go public come after the microchip giant Arm pulled off a $54bn (£43bn) float last week, after opting for New York’s Nasdaq exchange over London.Imagination is likely to be valued well above the...

Marina Berlusconi, the eldest daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, has called Giorgia Meloni’s plan to tax banks profits “demagoguery”, the first public criticism of the usually private businesswoman against Italy’s prime minister.Her comments outlined divisions over the issue in the coalition government that includes her late father’s party.Ms Meloni has taken personal responsibility for the measure, which targets extra profits made by banks from higher interest rates.Marina Berlusconi, together with her brother Pier Silvio, has assumed effective control of the family business empire after the death of their father in June.Forza...