Poland

The country is seeking help abroad to discover the source of toxic contamination in the Oder river, following a fish die-off that environmental groups have described as the country's biggest environmental disaster in recent years

At a meeting of the EU affairs committee of the Polish parliament, the plan to lease its nuclear power plants, which are due to close soon, from Germany was addressed, welcomed by most opposition parties

Tennis star Iga Swiatek, world number 1 of the WTA ranking, helped raise PLN 2 million, €425.000, for Ukraine during an exhibition tournament held in the southern Polish city of Kraków

More and more Poles are pawning their possessions when they urgently need money, and this often happens even to those with good jobs, on top of mothers with children, pensioners and office workers

Quality standards for burning coal for domestic heating have been suspended by the government; environmental groups, however, warn that the decision will cause serious damage in a country that already has the most polluted air in Europe

Prominent liberal opposition newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza published a survey on Polish refugee aid, stating that its own narrative of the country as xenophobic is false, with 73,5% of Poles having participated in some form of assistance to Ukrainian refugees

The Polish authorities' decision to end the state of emergency follows the completion of the border wall with Belarus, which aims to stop the illegal movement of migrants

The European Commission will grant Poland 144,6 million euros of the total of 248 million allocated to all states from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund to help refugees from Ukraine

The country has registered ten times as many Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war in Ukraine as Serbia received from the Middle East at the height of the 2015 refugee crisis - of whom 141.000 on 8 March

The country is moving to adapt its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) strategic plan to place greater emphasis on food security and crisis relief, while remaining committed to the Green Deal objectives

Poland's climate and environment minister confirmed that Russia has cut off gas supplies to his country on Wednesday morning

More than €10 billion were raised for Ukrainians in global 'Stand Up For Ukraine' fundraising campaign run by EC, Canadian government and Global Citizen, which concluded with a donor conference in Warsaw