The end of the global pandemic is now in sight, Poland’s Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Wednesday, expressing hope that the country will soon begin to return to normal life. Speaking at a press conference, the minister said that in February he expects a significant decrease in infections, which, in turn, will lower the risk of the healthcare system becoming overwhelmed. If this is the... 

The new left-liberal government in Poland is drawing comparisons to the former communist dictatorship by taking what the country’s former conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, claims are “political prisoners.” Morawiecki, who stepped down in December, appeals for help from the outside world, stating in a speech in English that, for the first time since the dark days of... 

From left, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Polish opposition politicians have criticized the Polish government for not being present in Kyiv with European leaders from Germany, France, Italy,... 

An EU mechanism to withhold budget cash will be triggered after Poland racked up huge daily fines of €500,000 for refusing to shutter a lignite mine. The European Commission has informed Poland that it will be docking a multimillion-euro fine out of EU funds earmarked for Warsaw, Brussels spokesman Balazs Ujvari told AFP on Tuesday. The mechanism will be triggered next week and will see 15 million... 

The European Court of Justice has said on Wednesday that it ordered Poland to pay a million euro (around $1.2 million) every day until it brings its judicial system in line with European Union standards. The harsh penalty was “necessary in order to avoid serious and irreparable harm to the legal order of the European Union and to the values on which that Union is founded, in particular that... 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has once again challenged the idea of the primacy of EU law, accusing Brussels of attempts to infringe upon the rights of the national governments as he arrived at an EU summit on Thursday. Orban dismissed the idea of imposing sanctions against Poland over its decision to make EU law subordinate to its national legislation by calling such measures ridiculous.... 

Poland’s prime minister has announced that his government will dissolve the disciplinary chamber of the country’s Supreme Court after the EU condemned the chamber for threatening the “unity of the European legal order.” Speaking to EU officials at the European Parliament, Polish leader Mateusz Morawiecki accepted that the chamber “did not meet our expectations,” agreeing to dissolve the... 

Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, is backing an International Appeal to stop the controversial roll-out of 5G. Julian Rose via Activist Post reports: 5G, a new millimetre band frequency range being introduced by the telecommunications industry worldwide has been identified by over 2,000 scientists and 1,400 medical doctors from all over the world, as presenting a direct threat to human... 

The protest was aimed at marking Poles’ opposition to the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today Act (JUST Act), a 2018 US law requiring the State Department to report to Congress on what European countries have done to compensate Holocaust survivors or their heirs for assets seized under Nazi or communist rule. Thousands of Polish nationalists took to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday, gathering... 

The Polish economy is booming and the country’s ruling conservatives are pursuing a model of “inclusive growth” to create equitable opportunities for citizens, the country’s prime minister has said in the Wall Street Journal. “Our market economy is booming, allowing us to take care of the least fortunate,” Mateusz Morawiecki said in an opinion piece published by the leading US financial... 

Heated debate over Poland’s controversial Holocaust law has reached new levels this week after the Polish prime minister spoke of “Jewish perpetrators” during the Nazi era, causing outrage in Israel. “The Polish Prime Minister’s remarks here in Munich are outrageous,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Saturday, referring to the remarks Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki made... 

Poland’s new premier meets with Hungary’s Viktor Orban in Budapest on Wednesday (3 January) in a show of solidarity against EU criticism of their countries’ joint backtracking on democratic values and the rule of law. It will be Mateusz Morawiecki’s first official bilateral visit since taking office last month. Morawiecki holds talks with his Hungarian counterpart after the... 

Poland will definitely not be taking in any fake “asylum seekers” from Africa or the Middle East, but will continue to offer shelter to neighboring Ukrainians who are fleeing conflict in that country, new Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has announced. Speaking in an interview with Polish Television, Morawiecki said his government would “maintain firmly the position that was formed by... 

The European Union has triggered Article 7 against Poland, a procedure that could result in sanctions targeting Warsaw. The EU says Poland has violated democratic values with proposed judiciary reform. The European Union’s executive body triggered Article 7 of the EU treaty, branded the “nuclear option,” against Poland on Wednesday. It has been triggered for the first time since the foundation...