Europe Poland The prime minister said the country is building a strong army, with "the most advanced weapons", to deter potential attacks, stressing that in peacetime the army's main goal is deterrence
Europe Poland An alternative text version for the book 'History and the Present' was presented after the original content caused outrage for a passage suggesting that children born through in-vitro fertilisation would not be loved like as much as the others
Europe Poland Since 24 February, almost 5,65 million people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland according to data released by the Border Guard
Europe 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland Poland has the largest gas storage reserves in Europe and the highest gas storage rate, with 95% of its storage facilities full, totalling 3,35 billion cubic metres
Europe Poland 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
Europe Poland 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