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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 ...
As refugees continue to flee from Ukraine to Poland, major cities – including the capital, Warsaw – have warned that they have reached their capacity to accommodate and help those arriving. They have ...
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 ...
Police in Poland have detained seven people on charges relating to the building of an enormous medieval-style castle on a lake in Notecka Forest, an area protected as part of the EU’s Natura 2000 ...
A bill that would liberalise Poland’s abortion law has been submitted by the centre-right Third Way (Trzecia Droga), which is the more conservative wing of the ruling coalition that took power in ...
Anybody treating the title of 1,001 Books You Must Read Before You Die seriously faces an almost impossible challenge. But for those interested in Polish literature, tackling the nine works in this ...
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 ...
The number of foreigners registered in Poland’s social insurance system (known as ZUS) rose 6% last year to reach 1.13 million. Immigrants now make up almost 7% of all those in the system. The ...
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