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The improvement in Poland’s score was largely linked to fewer attacks on journalists than in previous years.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A mysterious beast lurking in a tree in Kraków has been identified as a croissant by a local animal charity, which was called out by a worried resident. The Kraków Society for the Protection of ...

The mayor of Warsaw has banned the display of religious symbols such as crosses from city hall, making it the first city in Poland to do so. He has also informed officials that they must respect the ...

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In 1990, eight years after the construction of what was supposed to be Poland’s first nuclear power plant began, and following years of fierce protests, the project in the village of Żarnowiec near ...

Poland’s justice minister has claimed that the domestic opposition party wants to ban meat and that Spain – ruled by a left-wing government – is legalising bestiality. He cited this as evidence that ...