Polish PM Tusk’s clampdown on hate crimes to ‘include memes’
The Polish justice ministry has published guidelines on hate-motivated crimes recommending close examination of online activity, including visual content such as…
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EP sides with Polish PM Tusk over removal of opposition MEPs’ immunity
The European Parliament has voted to remove parliamentary immunity from Conservative (PiS) MEPs Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik so they can face criminal prosecution…
Setback for Polish PM Tusk as court rejects request to arrest former PiS minister
A Warsaw court has rejected a request by a parliamentary committee investigating the use of Pegasus spyware by the former Conservative (PiS) government to detain…
Three quarters of Poles do not want the euro, says new poll
A new survey showed that Poles were now more than ever opposed to replacing the national currency, the zloty, with the euro.
PM Tusk wants self-confessed alcoholic Polish deputy foreign minister suspended
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has asked the foreign minister Radosław Sikorski to suspend the deputy foreign minister Andrzej Szejna following revelations about…
Tusk accuses opposition of ‘Russian sabotage’ as consensus on Polish defence breaks down
The consensus between the Polish centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the opposition Conservatives (PiS) over Polish defence and security…
Polish minister rules out migrants checks on his country’s border with Germany
Poland’s deputy internal affairs minister has told the country’s parliament there was no way Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government would introduce border…
Tusk-controlled Polish election regulator set to cut €6m funding for Confederation party
Poland’s State election regulator (PKW) has refused to accept the right-wing Confederation party’s financial report for the European Parliament elections of…
Polish opposition warns against EU control of country’s armed forces
Poland’s Conservative (PiS) opposition to the centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has claimed the PM was selling out the independence of the…
Polish Government plans online policing during presidential election
The Polish Government, at the request of the European Commission, has presented a plan for monitoring and intervention in online activities during the run-up to…
Poland seeks nuclear weapons cover and wants military training for all its men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that the government wanted to introduce military training for all adult males and that his country would seek to…
Polish opposition MP handcuffs himself in parliament as he waives his immunity
Polish MP Dariusz Matecki of the opposition Conservatives (PiS) has handcuffed himself on the podium of Poland’s parliament after he waived his own parliamentary…
Head of new Polish media centre admits it is a ‘government mouthpiece’
Michał Broniatowski, the director of Poland's new Foreign Language Media Centre created by public broadcaster TVP, has admitted it was designed to promote the government's…
Polish right-wing candidate tops PiS rival in election poll
Poland’s presidential election race took an unexpected twist as a result of an opinion poll putting Sławomir Mentzen from the right-wing Confederation party in…
Poland’s Speaker of parliament proposes breathalyser tests for MPs
The Speaker of Poland’s parliament, Szymon Hołownia, has proposed breathalyser tests for MPs after he expelled one from the chamber for allegedly being drunk…
Most Poles want country to host nuclear weapons, new survey shows
More than half of Poles want nuclear weapons stationed in the country, a new poll has shown.
Polish opposition’s election candidate blames ‘European elites’ for Ukraine war
Karol Nawrocki, the Polish opposition Conservatives' (PiS) presidential election candidate, has blamed “European elites” for the conflict in Ukraine.
US think-tank slams Poland’s Tusk over ‘abuse of democracy’
A report by US think-tank Hudson Institute has criticised Poland’s centre-left government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk for governing in an autocratic manner.
My principles on Ukraine, ‘and if you don’t like them, well, I have others’
After the latest Trump-Putin “pas de deux”, in the ever-evolving theatre of international politics, the diplomatic ballet by European leaders that comes next…
Polish justice minister suspends prosecutor investigating him and PM Tusk
Poland’s justice minister Adam Bodnar has suspended deputy prosecutor general Michał Ostrowski and launched disciplinary proceedings against him.
Donald copies Donald: Polish PM calls in billionaire to cut red tape
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has drafted in billionaire countryman Rafał Brzoska to head a task force to deregulate the economy as part of the government’s…
Trump appoints anti-Tusk conservative hawk as US ambassador to Poland
US President Donald Trump has named Thomas Rose as ambassador to Poland.
Polish President ‘fears Brussels interference in elections’
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the opposition Conservatives (PiS), has said he was concerned that European Union institutions may interfere in the…
Tusk’s Polish Government pursues Conservative ex-minister: Tell the truth and go to jail?
Poland’s justice minister Adam Bodnar has requested parliamentary immunity be lifted for former defence minister in the last Conservative (PiS) government Mariusz…
Poland’s constitutional court chief accuses PM Tusk of staging ‘coup d’état’
The chief justice of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, or court, Bogdan Święczkowski has sent prosecutors a submission accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk of…
Norway’s ‘Trump whisperer’ Stoltenberg in as new finance chief, urges US engagement
Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who has became Norway's new finance minister, said engaging with the administration of US President Donald Trump on trade was…
Tusk tries to seduce Trump with US weapons purchase proposal
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged the European Union to stay “united” and respond in a “clear and firm” way to US President Donald Trump’s warning…
Polish PM Tusk’s MPs vote for detention of ex-justice minister in Pegasus case
The Polish parliamentary committee investigating the purchase and use of Pegasus spyware by the former Conservative (PiS) government has voted to have former PiS…
Poland and Canada sign nuclear power cooperation agreement
Poland and Canada have signed an agreement that provides a legal framework for more intensive cooperation on nuclear power, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said…
Polish PM Tusk’s anti-PiS legal policy sees alleged killer’s conviction overturned
A court of appeal in Poland has overturned a life sentence for an alleged serial killer originally convicted of having murdered three women in order to take control…