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

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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, ...

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 ...

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 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Poland’s constitutional court is not a “tribunal established by law” because it contains a judge illegitimately appointed as part of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people took part in a demonstration in Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, on Friday evening expressing support for Palestine and opposition to Israel’s actions in Gaza. Participants ...

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 ...