The annual March of the Living event commemorates the victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland.

The death of liberal democracy has been announced prematurely. But without efforts to counter populism and pessimism, it could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In a significant move today, the European Commission launched an infringement procedure to protect judges in Poland from political control. [...] By failing to protect judges from political interference, the country’s disciplinary regime [...] threatens the functioning of the EU as a whole.

"The new disciplinary regime undermines the judicial independence of Polish judges," the EU Commission's First Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, said.

"The EU was always respectful of the UK's choice", Barnier said.

From the Baltic States to Hungary down to Croatia, Eastern Europe is proving very fertile for craft beer.

Auschwitz Memorial told visitors in a Tweet "there are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportations of hundreds of thousands to their deaths".

The report is part of an investigation into widespread abuse of children by the clergy in countries such as Chile, the US, Australia, and Ireland, which has shaken the Catholic Church.

Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, the former deputy of murdered Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz, has won the city's mayoral race by a huge margin.

Residents in Poland’s northern city of Gdansk will choose a successor for the late Mayor Pawel Adamowicz, who was fatally stabbed during a charity event in January.

Poland announced yesterday that it planned to expel a Norwegian diplomat in response to a similar action from Norway earlier in the year