Polish politics

It's a response to 80 Polish municipalities declared themselves "free of LGBT ideology" last year.

A judge has ruled in the favour of the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly after a group of women protesting fascism at an Independence Day march in Poland were beaten - and themselves charged instead of their attackers.

Marek Kuchcinski from the ruling PiS party said he would resign after it was revealed that he used government aircraft for private trips by family members.

Responding to an open letter to the Polish people by the president of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), law academic Wojciech Sadurski makes clear why he will not be voting to transform Poland's democratic system into an autocracy.

A fierce critic of the Polish government, who is facing legal challenges from the country’s ruling party, has spoken out against what he believes are “politically motivated” efforts to silence him.

The rulers [in Poland] do not behave as if they were meaningful constrained by law; whenever it does not suit their political purposes, they simply amend it. This is not a rule of law, this is rule by law.

Around 200,000 people, including Poland's leaders and nationalist groups, marched through Warsaw on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of Polish independence.

It should become clear /.../ that the continuing, systemic and vicious attacks on Polish courts and their judges are bound to produce consequences beyond Polish borders and constitute a clear and present danger to the EU legal system as a whole. This is no time for further dialogue or half measures.

The Polish government's move to retire Supreme Court judges at 65 threatens to escalate the row with Brussels over judicial independence.

Polish MPs have voted to give themselves a 20% pay cut after a bonus scandal involving senior ministers.

Zbigniew Mikołejko, professor and philosopher of religion at the Polish Academy of Science, explains what the 'Smolensk religion’ is, who its followers are, and how it's helping to win elections.

Amid rising interest in clean vehicles in Europe, the Polish government is banking on electric cars.

Roza Thun told Euronews the insult “crossed all boundaries,” as she joined calls from leading MEPs for Ryszard Czarnecki’s dismissal

Law and Justice party argues winning voters away from extremist parties is preferable to allowing them to gain their own momentum, Reuters reports.

The Bialowieza forest includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain 10,000 years ago.