More than half of Poles say that relations with Germany are not good. 35% describe relations with Germany is downright bad, for the first time in more than 20 years. The sense that Germany owes Poland for World War II and that it has been weak on Ukraine is quite widespread in Poland.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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