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
Europe Poland Polish expert Jacek Bartosiak, founder of the think tank Strategy and Future, has joined forces with Hungarian-born US geopolitical forecaster George Friedman to write a book on geopolitics in space
Europe Poland The 18th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition - the most important musical event in the country - starts today at the Warsaw Philharmonic with the selections of the 164 qualified pianists postponed for the pandemic