Poland

Poland replaces EU Commissioner candidate

Krzysztof Szczerski, who was originally appointed as Poland’s candidate for the next European Commission, withdrew himself from consideration Monday after a meeting with President-elect Ursula von der Leyen, after she…

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Polish ruling Law and Justice party loses ground in polls

Poland's ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, hit by two high profile resignations, lost ground in two polls on Friday ahead of October's election. A poll by Kantar showed…

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Lightning strike in Poland kills four, injures 100

At least four people died and more than 100 were injured in lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Poland. The worst bolt fell on a group of hikers at the…

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Poland’s deputy justice minister resigns over Internet trolling allegations

Lukasz Piebiak, Poland’s deputy justice minister resigned after an investigative report accused him of using an internet troll to wage a smear campaign against judges opposed to the government’s judicial…

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Photo Story: Rescue operation for trapped cavers in Poland

Members of TOPR (Voluntary Tatra Rescue Service) board the TOPR helicopter at the heliport in Zakopane, Poland, 18 August 2019 (issued 19 August 2019). According to reports, more than 20…

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Photo Story: Heavy rainfall in Poland

Cars drive through street during heavy rainfall in Przemysl, Poland, 14 August 2019. The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management reported that in the coming hours almost the entire country…

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Photo Story: Fireworks rule the night from Poland to Singapore

Fireworks are a popular summertime tradition not only in Malta but in various corners of the world as these photos illustrate. Photos of various fireworks displays that were held…

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US troops stationed in Germany could go to Poland

Georgette Mosbacher, US Ambassador to Poland in a social media post says that Poland, unlike Germany spends two percent of its GDP on NATO and that it would gladly welcome…

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Speaker of Poland’s parliament resigns after taking family on government flights

The speaker of Poland’s parliament is to resign in a bid to quell a burgeoning scandal over the use of government jets, just two months before the central European…

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Elections in Poland to be held on October 13

Polish president's office confirmed on Tuesday that the country will hold its parliamentary election on October 13, which most pollsters expect the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to win…

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Promising Cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht dies after crashing during third stage of Tour of Poland

Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht has died after crashing during the third stage of the Tour of Poland, the 22-year-old's Lotto Soudal team announced. Lambrecht is believed to have fallen into…

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130,000 pigs slaughtered in Bulgaria, in an attempt to limit swine fever

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said the Balkan state’s government will compensate owners who voluntarily cull their domestic pigs, as the country works to stamp out an outbreak of the…

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Imagine there’s no hate – Wife of murdered Polish mayor takes on hate speech

Magdalena Adamowicz is upset. She's forgotten the pin she wears wherever she goes — it has “Imagine there’s no hate” written on it. Adamowicz's husband Paweł, the mayor of Gdańsk, was stabbed…

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Poland commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising

For 63 days between August and October 1944, the Polish Home Army fought against the Nazis in an effort to liberate Warsaw. 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw…

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Various parts of Europe hit by severe storms

After an intense heatwave, various parts of Europe were hit by severe storms. In Poland, rough weather conditions effected large parts of the country as Poland’s Met Office (IMGW) issued…

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30 Poles injured after bus crash in southern Turkey

At least 30 Polish citizens were injured, including three seriously, after a bus crashed down a wooded slope near the southern Turkish resort of Kemer, according to a Polish ministry…

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Poland’s Law and Justice boosted by opposition’s failure to unite

Poland’s biggest opposition party is to fight October’s general election without having forged a broad anti-government alliance, giving a boost to the ruling Law and Justice party in its…

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Polish flight centre to train future Ryanair pilots

Pilots of Ryanair will be trained at the Bartolini Air flight training centre near Łódź in central Poland. The centre near Łódź will train 320 Ryanair pilots, in cooperation with…

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Poland tops list of countries giving first residency permits to nonEU nationals – Ukraine tops the receiving end list – Malta’s main recipients are Serbians

More than three million first residence permits were granted by European Union member states in 2017, figures from the bloc's official statistics agency revealed on Monday. Poland was the main…

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Search for missing boy “biggest in history” of Polish police

Polish police are conducting a search for a 5 year old boy that is being described as the biggest in the history of the Polish police. The effort enters its…

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Central and Eastern Europe countries expecting important Commission portfolios

Central and Eastern Europe was shut out in last week's race for senior EU positions, so the region's governments are eyeing important Commission portfolios and a vice presidency as compensation. “The…

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What is the Visegrad Group?

In 1991, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia – as it still was then – joined forces to work together more closely and prepare their planned EU accession. The Visegrad Group (also…

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Poland criticises the way EU is dealing with North Macedonia and Albania accession

Polish President Andrzej Duda scolded the European Union on Friday for delaying accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, days after the EU’s current eastern European members lost out in…

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Hungary’s lessons, applied in Poland… is it late for the EU’s championing of the Rule of Law?

Michael Meyer-Resende writes on the The Guardian that perhaps one day the spring of 2019 will be remembered as the moment when the European Union halted the destruction of democratic institutions in…

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Photo Story: Mike Tyson with a hero from the Warsaw Uprising

US Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson (R) meets with a Warsaw Uprising insurgent Boleslaw Wojewodzki 'Tarzan' (L) before upcoming 75th anniversary of Warsaw uprising in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw…

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Seven countries stop their participation in Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe following return of Russia legislators

Delegations of Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to cut short their participation in the summer session following…

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U.S., Poland sign cyberspace defence cooperation agreement

In another important milestone marking the strong partnership between the U.S. and Poland, military officials from the two countries signed a cyberspace defence cooperation agreement June 26. The Arrangement on…

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Poland’s governing party agrees 12-fold rise in tax-free allowance for workers under 26

Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party agreed a more than 12-fold rise in the tax-free allowance for wage earners aged under 26, extending a programme of new social benefits…

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ECJ says that Polish judicial reforms violated EU law

Polish judicial reforms that lowered the retirement age of Supreme Court judges violated EU law, the European Court of Justice ruled Monday. POLITICO reports that the ECJ found that the retirement…

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Poland: Companies buy adult magazine to shut it down, in an effort to empower women

For 27 years, “Your Weekend” – one of Poland longest running and most read adult magazines, reduced women to sex objects. So when it was put up for sale, Gazeta.pl, VMLY&R, MasterCard,…

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Poland’s new retirement rules for judges break EU laws

Poland’s new retirement rules for judges, introduced in 2017, break European Union law, the advocate general for the EU’s top court said in an opinion on Thursday in a blow…

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Young Polish priest who was ordained last month following a terminal cancer diagnosis has died

A young Polish priest who was ordained last month following a terminal cancer diagnosis has died, his community announced Monday. Fr. Michal Los, FDP, died June 17 in the morning,…

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Flooding and devastation in many parts of Europe after severe storms

Many parts of western Europe in the last days were hit by several severe storms that caused devastation and flooding. Weather conditions that even caused some fatalities. A storm on…

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Pilot dies after loosing control of aircraft during airshow in Poland

A German pilot was killed as his Jak-52 aircraft lost control and plunged into the Vistula River during a stunt performance at the 7th Płock Air Picnic in central Poland…

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Scicluna urges Polish bishops to do what is needed to fight pedophilia

The Vatican’s leading sexual abuse investigator on Friday urged stronger action from Poland’s Catholic bishops who are under growing public pressure over a pedophilia scandal. The Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor,…

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US to send 1,000 troops to Poland

US President Donald Trump has announced that US will deploy 1,000 more troops to Poland. Trump said the force would be taken from America's 52,000-strong contingent in Germany, and…

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Catholic priest stabbed in Wroclaw, Poland before mass

A Catholic priest in Wrocław is in stable condition after reportedly being stabbed before morning Mass on Monday, Polish sources are reporting. A spokesperson with University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław…

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130 firefighters required to extinguish skyscraper fire in Warsaw, Poland

A fire broke out on the upper floors of an under-construction building in the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday (June 7) night. Video footage showed burning debris falling to the…

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Photo Story – Museum of the Moon inaugurated in Warsaw

People look at an installation entitled 'Musem of the Moon' by British artist Luke Jerram presented in the Copernicus Science Center, in Warsaw, Poland, 30 May 2019. The installation shows…

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Photo Story: Warsaw’s Vistula rising

A general view shows flooding and rising water levels on the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland, 28 May 2019. Heavy rainfall caused flooding in central Poland prompting authorities to issue…

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Europe Votes: Poland, ExitPolls, the projections

Exit Polls indicate that Law and Justice are set to win 42.4% of the vote in Poland. This is a summary of Politico’s projections for the voting today in Poland:…

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Work permits for foreign workers hits record high in Poland

According to the Polish Central Statistical Office (GUS), the country is experiencing a surge in the registration of foreign workers in the country. Last year, Poland issued over 300,000 work…

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PhotoStory: Floods in Poland

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Poland’s pro-EU opposition with a 10-point lead

The European Coalition, Poland's pro-EU opposition has a 10-point lead over the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) ahead of European Parliament elections. According to a survey issued on Friday,…

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Trump to host Polish President in June

President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on June 12, receoiving another central European leader at the White House less than a month after sitting down with…

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On this day in 1955, the Warsaw Pact was formed

The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces…

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Polish Cardinal defies Italian police to restore electricity to homeless shelter

Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Pope Francis' almoner - the person is in charge of the pope's charities and helping the poor- on Sunday lowered himself into a manhole to restore…

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Poland to introduce harsher sentences for child abuse

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's Ruling party promised harsher sentences for child abuse, as the release of a documentary about paedophile priests created a fresh battleground in an election…

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Photostory: Fatal stabbing at Polish school

A teenager died at a Warsaw primary school after being stabbed with a sharp tool during a quarrel with another student, Polish police said Friday. Warsaw police spokesman Tomasz Oleszczuk…

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Corporate Dispatch Morning Briefing, May 9th 2019

Good morning, Your morning briefing for today, reviews the main news from Malta, Europe and the World. Start your day informed. Cover Story On Europe Day, European Union leaders meet…

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Russia will allow Polish investigators to examine the debris from 2010 Smolensk plane crash

Russia said it would allow Polish investigators to examine the wreckage of a Polish plane that crashed in 2010, an incident that killed Poland’s then-President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people. In…

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European leaders to discuss future of Europe in “Together for Europe” summit in Warsaw on 15th anniversary of largest EU enlargement

"Europe must be a force of openness both internally and within the global context," Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said during his address to the Together for Europe summit held in Warsaw on…

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