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Russia has refused to hand over to Polish authorities the Gdańsk building that formerly housed its consulate.
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A Polish court has cancelled the European Arrest Warrant issued against Marcin Romanowski, an opposition Conservative politician and former deputy justice minister who is…
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Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki has removed the Round Table from the presidential palace at which discussions paving the way for the end of Communism took place in 1989.
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has sided with the European Commission and the Polish Government in ruling that Poland's Constitutional Court (TK) does not meet EU standards…
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A student has been arrested for allegedly planning an Islamic State attack on a Christmas market in Poland.
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Poland’s main opposition party, the Conservatives (PiS), has become embroiled in a conflict over the ambitions and future of the former PiS prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki said he believes Ukraine has taken his country for granted and failed to treat it as a partner.
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Poland’s ruling centre-left coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk is threatening to cut the budget of President Karol Nawrocki’s Chancellery in protest at his vetoes…
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Poland’s prosecution service has dropped a criminal investigation of a doctor who carried out an abortion on a woman who was in the ninth month of pregnancy.
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Poland has entered into talks on donating more MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine, with Warsaw expecting in return to receive access to drone and missile technologies from…
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Poland’s opposition has reacted with scepticism to the European Union’s decision to allow the country not to have to receive migrants redistributed as part of the bloc’s…
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According to an international survey, support for Poland leaving the European Union has reached 25 per cent of surveyed voters.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk failed in his attempt to overturn the opposition-aligned President Karol Nawrocki vetoing a bill designed to regulate the domestic crypto-currency…
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Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski told Elon Musk to “Go to Mars” after the US billionaire called for the European Union to be abolished.
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A joint session of two chambers of the Polish Supreme Court has adopted a resolution that rejects the right of the European Union to regulate Poland’s judicial system.
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Poland has become the 17th European Union member state to ban fur farming .
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, that if Germany does not start paying compensation to victims of the Second World War, his country…
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Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki has cancelled his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in protest against Hungary's leader's trip to Moscow to meet Russian…
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A Polish journalist was charged with disturbing the peace at a Warsaw demonstration he was covering as a reporter, asking questions of participants at the gathering.
CORRUPTION
Polish prosecutors have indicted the mayor of Poland’s third biggest city, also a former presidential aide and two ex-MEPs for their alleged participation in a fraud and…
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki slammed the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision to require member states to recognise same sex marriages made in other countries in the…
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A man has been convicted in a Polish court of insulting the office of Prime Minister, held by Donald Tusk.
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki said the European Union was “not a union of our dreams” because it was becoming over-centralised.
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Poland was excluded from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Geneva at which Germany, France and the UK have played a role.
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The Russian authorities have removed sculptures of Polish military symbols adorning the graves of Polish officers at the Katyn cemetery in western Russia.
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Poland's President Karol Nawrocki has been accused of fostering euro-scepticism and laying the groundwork for his country's departure from the European Union.
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Russia’s consulate in the Polish city of Gdańsk has been closed in retaliation for explosions on railway lines, Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski announced.
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The explosions that damaged railway tracks in the east of Poland were the work of two Ukrainians working for Russia, according to the Polish authorities.
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The Polish parliament elected as Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the leader of the Left Party, which is part of the centre-left coalition government led by Prime Minister…
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Poland's opposition Conservatives (PiS) have criticised the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk over its handling of national security.