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President Nawrocki's deputy chief of staff, Adam Andruszkiewicz, will stand trial after being indicted for allegedly ordering the falsification of documents.
Andruszkiewicz denies guilt and says he is the victim of “political revenge” by the government against the opposition-aligned president.
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A late-night meeting between PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński and Mateusz Morawiecki, who heads a more moderate faction in the party, has led to an agreement ending a dispute over a new association founded by Morawiecki and joined by dozens of PiS politicians.
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France's Emmanuel Macron has declared that relations between his country and Poland are at a “historic level” following a meeting with Poland's Donald Tusk in Gdańsk, at which they discussed cooperation on security, energy and technology.
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A consortium led by the US company Hill International has been awarded a 1.6bn zloty (€373m) contract to oversee construction of a major new airport that will be part of a planned transportation hub being developed near Warsaw in central Poland.
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Poland has moved forward with plans to require all pet dogs and cats to be microchipped and entered into a registry.
The government says the proposed system will improve safety, reduce homelessness, and cut municipal sheltering costs.
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President Nawrocki joined thousands of people on the March of Life, Poland’s largest annual anti-abortion event.
"Fundamental human rights continue to be questioned in Poland: the right to life, to protect one’s family, to raise children according to one’s beliefs," declared the organisers.
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Prosecutors have charged a soldier from Poland’s Territorial Defence Force with espionage.
According to a media investigation, the suspect was active in a far-right group and was seeking to spy on behalf of Russia.
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The far-right MP who displayed an Israeli flag with a swastika added to it has been handed the maximum possible punishment by parliament, with his salary cut by half for three months
Separately, he is being investigated by prosecutors for potential crimes www.tvp.info/92759756/swa...
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A planned concert by Kanye West in Poland has been cancelled by the venue.
Its decision followed criticism by the culture minister, who had threatened to have West banned from entering the country over his antisemitic and pro-Nazi remarks
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Poland’s top administrative court has rejected a final legal challenge against a private residence built in the style of a medieval castle and located on a lake in an EU-protected forest.
The controversial project has meanwhile continued and appears near completion.
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The national-conservative opposition PiS party has threatened disciplinary measures, including exclusion from electoral lists, against dozens of its MPs who have joined a new internal group led by former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki with the intention of appealing to more moderate voters.
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A court has dismissed a case brought by Jarosław Kaczyński against Donald Tusk for calling the former PiS government "serial killers of women" due to the tightening of the abortion law, with the judge arguing that Kaczyński "bears moral responsibility for tragedies” that occurred as a result.
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Russia has installed an exhibition titled “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” outside the entrance to a cemetery containing thousands of Poles murdered by the Soviets in the 1940 Katyn massacre.
It opened just before Poland marked its annual day of remembrances for victims of the massacre.
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Polish arms firm Mesko has announced the best financial results in its 100-year history.
Record revenues and profits were driven in large part by international demand for Mesko's flagship Piorun air-defence system, which has proved successful in Ukraine.
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Poland has received approval from the European Commission to launch the EU's first hydrogen transmission network operator.
The decision paves the way for investment in infrastructure for the clean fuel, which is seen as an important part of the green transition.
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Poland’s economy did not become the 20th largest in the world last year – and is not expected to reach that position until 2028 – new IMF figures indicate.
Last year, the IMF had forecast Poland would join the top 20 in 2025, which drew enormous attention.
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President Nawrocki’s national security adviser has won a legal battle with the prime minister's office and the security services, which have been blocking his access to classified information.
It shows they have been acting "in flagrant violation of the law", says Sławomir Cenckiewicz.
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For more on the incident, see our report from yesterday.
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Poland and Japan have agreed a comprehensive strategic partnership with the aim of cooperating more closely on security, infrastructure, nuclear energy and technology.
Poles have long viewed Japan as a “symbol of success", but the two countries are now partners "on equal terms", said Donald Tusk.
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Polish opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński today suggested that incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar once killed a puppy in a microwave, repeating a false and widely debunked online claim.
Kaczyński's PiS party later admitted that he was wrong.
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A bicycle thief in Poland tried an unorthodox way of evading capture.
Pursued by the local police, he joined the field of a cycling race and even managed to catch up with the leaders before he was apprehended.
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A far-right MP displayed an Israeli flag in which the Star of David was replaced with a swastika during a speech in Poland's parliament in which he accused Israel of being the “new Third Reich” and of committing genocide in Gaza.
His actions were condemned by the parliamentary speaker and other MPs
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Poland’s justice minister has ordered prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation into advisors to opposition-aligned President Karol Nawrocki for their role in Nawrocki’s decision not to swear in constitutional court judges appointed by parliament.
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The national security advisor to Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who is a Trump ally, says the US president has "insulted all Catholics" with his social media posts attacking the pope and sharing an image that appears to depict Trump as Jesus.
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The US ambassador has called the speaker of Poland's parliament a "menace" and "notorious ex-communist apparatchik" in response to an interview in which the Polish official called President Trump "irrational" and a "leader of chaos".
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Poland and South Korea have signed a new comprehensive strategic partnership.
South Korea is now "our most important ally after the United States, especially in the defence industry", said Prime Minister Donald Tusk on a visit to Seoul.
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Hungary’s newly elected leader, Péter Magyar, has confirmed that his first foreign trip will be to Poland.
His victory was hailed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who said he was "glad that our part of Europe is showing we are not doomed to corrupt, authoritarian governments".
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