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Warsaw city hall estimates that 90,000 took part in the march, but the organisers claim attendance was 250,000.
A study of young first-time voters ahead of this autumn’s parliamentary elections shows them overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the current political situation in Poland. The largest proportion of them, ...
Poland issued almost one million first residence permits to immigrants from outside the European Union last year, more than any other EU member state. It is the fifth year in a row that Poland has ...
As Poles move away from the church – in particular the urban young, but also some older believers in the Catholic small-town heartlands – a deeply religious country wrestles with its own identity. The ...
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has issued a ruling that will virtually end legal abortion in Poland. It has found that abortion in cases where the foetus has serious and irreversible birth defects – ...
Poland’s parliament has passed a bill that would centralise control over schools. Government-appointed education superintendents would be given additional powers over hiring and dismissing ...
Almost two months after winning a parliamentary majority in October’s elections, a coalition of three groups – the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), centre-right Third Way (Trzecia Droga) and The Left ...
In the early 1990s, almost 70% of young Poles regularly practised religion; today, less than 25% do. Among the whole population, the proportion regularly practising religion has also fallen ...
After a series of investments in lithium-ion battery manufacturing, Poland’s production capacity rose to 73 GWh in 2022, overtaking the US to become the second largest in the world, behind only China.
The northeastern province of Warmia and Masuria, once part of German East Prussia, is today firmly part of modern Poland, a region of lakes, forests and red-brick buildings popular among holidaymakers ...
It is “likely” that Russia was involved in the fire that recently destroyed Warsaw’s largest shopping centre, says Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. However, he added that investigations are still ...
As a growing number of Poles question the role and influence of the church, ever fewer parents are signing their children up for Catholic catechism classes in schools – and many are asking whether ...