Poland

Poland

Polish citizens struggle to buy or rent with rising cost of living

A two-person flat to rent in Warsaw costs around 3,300zł (or €735.31) today. Currently, the minimum wage is 3,490zł gross (€777.68).

17/05/2023

Poland

First HIMARS rocket launchers arrive in Poland from the US

Poland takes first delivery of US-made HIMARS rocket launchers amid concerns over war in Ukraine with a further 500 due later this year.

16/05/2023

Poland

Polish academics face funding cuts for criticising Holocaust narrative

Polish academics have come under fire and faced threats of funding cuts for criticising the role of ethnic Poles in helping Jews escape Nazi persecution.

11/05/2023

Poland

Inside the Ukrainian businesses refugees have opened in Poland

The number of Ukrainian companies in the Polish market has increased to 25,000, an increase caused by the influx of refugees from Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022.

05/05/2023

Poland

Poland strengthens its border fence with Russia to keep migrants out

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the razor wire fence along the border with the Russian exclave Kaliningrad would be reinforced again.

30/04/2023

Poland

Moscow reacts angrily after Poland shuts down Russian school in Warsaw

Poland says there is a big disparity in the number of diplomatic buildings each has in the other's country.

29/04/2023

Culture news

Here's where you can see the last-known piano of Frédéric Chopin

The newly designed exhibition features an impressive array of priceless artifacts, including Chopin's final piano, a 19th-century Pleyel dating back to 1848, and an extensive collection of authentic manuscripts.

28/04/2023

Poland

Polish opposition leader Tusk probed as election campaign heats up

Prosecutors have launched a probe into alleged abuses of power by leading opposition figure Donald Tusk. The former European Council president is considered to be the main competitor to the ruling Law and Justice party.

27/04/2023

Poland

Euroviews. This is what Poland needs to do to become the EU's top climate leader

If Poland wants to prepare for the negative impacts of climate change and retain its economic competitiveness, it needs to start by adopting its own climate law., Zuzanna Rudzińska-Bluszcz and Marcin Stoczkiewicz write.

20/04/2023

Poland

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

At a poignant and solemn ceremony, the German, Polish and Israeli presidents came together in the Polish capital to commemorate 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

19/04/2023

Poland

Warsaw and Kyiv agree deal to allow grain to transit Poland

Ukraine's grain exports to transit Poland in sealed containers after a deal was struck to prevent cheap cereals undermining Polish farm-gate prices.

19/04/2023

Poland

Euroviews. Eight decades since the Warsaw Uprising, let's celebrate the heroines

Regardless of gender, faith, or creed, freedom can only come with equality. When we fight together, we are stronger than even the most nefarious of history’s evils, Revital Yakin Krakovsky writes.

18/04/2023

Culture news

Warsaw museum displays rare artefacts from World War II Jewish ghetto

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

18/04/2023

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Bachelors bang their drums: an unusual Easter tradition in Poland

The town of Iwaniska celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ with drums. A few minutes before midnight, during the vigil at the tomb of Jesus, the drum is brought into the local church and at midnight the drumming begins.

09/04/2023

Poland

Poland pledges more MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine

Poland pledges additional MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first official visit to its key ally.

05/04/2023

Culture news

'Drive Your Plow': A must-see stage adaptation of Tokarczuk's novel

We went to see the stage adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's eco-thriller 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead'.

28/03/2023

Culture news

Polish activist found guilty of aiding abortion says support growing

Justyna Wydrzyńska, an abortion activist and doula, was found guilty by a Polish court of providing a woman in need with help during the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking concern among human and women's rights organisations.

27/03/2023

Destinations

This Polish city has just been ranked the cheapest place to be vegan

Krakow is one of the oldest cities in Poland and is full of architectural gems.

24/03/2023

Poland

Poland detains suspected Russian spies 'preparing acts of sabotage'

Poland's security services detained members of a Russian espionage ring alleging they were preparing acts of sabotage, Polish authorities said.

17/03/2023

Poland

Poland and Slovakia are first NATO countries sending MiG-29s to Kyiv

Warsaw announced that four of the Soviet-era warplanes would be sent initially, while Bratislava will provide 13 jets.

17/03/2023

Poland

Poland divided after documentary alleges John Paul II hid paedophilia

Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) has characterised the new documentary as an attack on Polish identity.

10/03/2023

Poland

'We'll defend every inch of NATO', Biden tells eastern Europe leaders

The US president held talks with the Bucharest Nine group of NATO's most easterly members in the Polish capital on Wednesday.

22/02/2023

Poland

Blockade at Polish-Belarusian border as tensions flare

Already-strained relations between Minsk and Warsaw are at a fever pitch after Poland closed its Bobrowniki border crossing with Belarus, one of the two main motorways between the two countries.

21/02/2023

Poland

'Kyiv stands strong' says Biden in address outside Warsaw Castle

US President Joe Biden addressed thousands of people in Poland's capital on Tuesday a day after his highly symbolic trip to Kyiv

21/02/2023

Poland

Ukrainians who have fled to Poland learn how to settle

Over the last year, over 9.5 million Ukrainians came to Poland. Nearly 8 million of them have returned. They were mainly women and children.

20/02/2023

Work

Poland's reverse brain drain: Meet the tech workers tempted back home

Poland is set to outstrip the UK economically by the end of the decade. It's prompting a wave of the Polish diaspora to return home to work in tech.

03/02/2023