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The gender gap in unpaid household labour in Poland has narrowed over the past decade as men spend more time on chores, according to new data from Statistics Poland (GUS), a state agency. However, ...
Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has rejected two government bills seeking to overhaul the tribunal itself, with the aim of reversing the politicisation of the court that took place under the ...
Poland has charged a Colombian citizen with terror offences over his alleged role in two arson attacks carried out on behalf of Russia. The suspect has partially ...
Deputy prime minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has proposed limiting access to Poland’s main child benefit programme to families in which parents are employed, arguing that universal payouts are ...
Andrzej Duda steps down next week following the end of his second – and constitutionally final – five-year term in office. On 6 August, Karol Nawrocki – a fellow conservative whom Duda endorsed – will ...
Polish prosecutors have filed an indictment against far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun over four incidents, including extinguishing Hanukkah candles in Poland’s parliament, disrupting a Holocaust lecture, ...
Poland’s consumer protection authority, UOKiK, has brought charges against four major companies – an e-commerce platform and three delivery firms – accusing them of misleading consumers with ...
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed into law a bill formally withdrawing the country from the Ottawa Treaty, which bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, citing deteriorating regional security ...
The ruling coalition was hoping that a victory in June’s presidential election for the PO candidate, Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, would end this difficult period of cohabitation and speed up the ...
Poland says that it can “serve as an example” for Western countries now considering recognising Palestine as a state, given that it has itself done so for almost four decades. It has also announced an ...
Poland’s parliament has voted to bring the head of the country’s media regulator before the State Tribunal, a body empowered to punish the highest officials of the state.
Poland has secured an additional $4 billion (14.5 billion zloty) loan guarantee from the United States to support the modernisation of its armed forces, defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has ...