Europe Poland Unemployment rose to 5,5% in January, up from 5,4% in December, still lower than the EU average; at the end of January there were about 927.100 people out of work nationwide, up from 895.200 the previous month
Europe Poland The country will buy another 100 tonnes of gold this year, bringing its national gold reserves to 330 tonnes, the central bank president confirmed, a policy considered the best for the country's development
Europe Poland The economy recovered from its 2020 slump to grow by 5,7% last year and the main driver of economic growth was domestic demand - data and information have been disclosed by the country's central statistics office
Europe Poland The Warsaw Stock Exchange has announced that it has become an affiliate member of the World Federation of Exchanges, a global industry association representing more than 250 financial exchanges and clearing houses around the world
Europe Poland Poland's unemployment rate, at 3% in November according to Eurostat, is the third lowest in the 27-nation EU, where the average for November was 6,5%
Europe Poland The nationalist government is reportedly trying to play down allegations that it improperly bought the Pegasus phone hacking software from an Israeli company to spy on its opponents
Europe Poland The European Commission has launched formal infringement proceedings against the country over the country's Constitutional Court's failure to recognise the superiority of European law over national laws
Europe Poland An institute to track the 6 million casualties of World War II will now be officially created; according to government estimates, Germany owes it up to $1 trillion in reparations for the damage and losses it caused
Europe Poland Women's rights activists used red paint to protest against a government plan to register every pregnancy in a national database while parliament debates a new proposal to further restrict abortion
Europe Poland Fearing an anti-Semitic backlash, some local Jews have joined with residents and environmental activists to reject the municipality's plans to build a memorial museum next to the site of the former Plaszow concentration camp
Europe Poland The Arctowski research station on King George Island, dubbed "informal embassy in Antarctica", is being renovated to continue scientific research; founded in 1977, sea waters have intruded up to a meter from main building
Europe Poland The European Union's Court of Justice has ruled that the country will have to pay a fine of €1 million per day until it agrees to change its judicial reform, in particular by blocking the operation of the Supreme Court's disciplinary chamber
Europe Poland Nine out of ten Polish teenagers feel happy at home, in both urban and rural areas, according to a new survey commissioned by the Children's Ombudsman