Barbara Skrzypek was questioned regarding alleged wrongdoing involving a firm linked to Kaczyński.

As Poles move away from the church – in particular the urban young, but also some older believers in the Catholic small-town heartlands – a deeply religious country wrestles with its own identity. The ...

Almost two months after winning a parliamentary majority in October’s elections, a coalition of three groups – the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), centre-right Third Way (Trzecia Droga) and The Left ...

A study of young first-time voters ahead of this autumn’s parliamentary elections shows them overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the current political situation in Poland. The largest proportion of them, ...

Poland has NATO’s third-largest military and the alliance’s largest in Europe, newly released figures show. The Polish armed forces contain 216,100 personnel, according to NATO’s estimates for this ...

On 29 May, following the stabbing of a Polish soldier (who later died from his wounds) by a migrant trying to cross into Poland from Belarus, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to introduce an ...

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Poland issued almost one million first residence permits to immigrants from outside the European Union last year, more than any other EU member state. It is the fifth year in a row that Poland has ...

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Poland, the EU’s most coal-dependent country, saw its share of electricity generated from coal drop from 86.6% in 2010 to 70.8% in 2021, according to new data on Poland’s energy mix published by the ...

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Poland’s parliament has passed a bill that would centralise control over schools. Government-appointed education superintendents would be given additional powers over hiring and dismissing ...