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Barbara Skrzypek was questioned regarding alleged wrongdoing involving a firm linked to Kaczyński.

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 ...

On 29 May, following the stabbing of a Polish soldier (who later died from his wounds) by a migrant trying to cross into Poland from Belarus, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to introduce an ...

Poland has NATO’s third-largest military and the alliance’s largest in Europe, newly released figures show. The Polish armed forces contain 216,100 personnel, according to NATO’s estimates for this ...

The proportion of people in Poland identifying as Roman Catholics has fallen to 71% in the latest national census, down from 88% a decade earlier. The figures mirror other findings from recent years ...

For the first time in English, Notes from Poland presents a newly discovered short story – entitled “Undula” – by Polish Jewish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942), translated with a short introduction by ...

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, ...

Yesterday’s parliamentary elections in Poland produced a landmark result, according to the exit poll published by Ipsos. It indicates that the ruling Law and Justice (PIS) party has lost its ...

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 protests against a court ruling that almost entirely outlaws abortion in Poland grow, the demonstrations have received support from a variety of groups, including miners, taxi drivers and farmers.

Almost a third of Poland’s population now lives within 300 metres of a Żabka store, claims the company, whose name, meaning “little frog”, has become a byword for convenience shopping. With 7,272 ...