The elections to the European Parliament in Poland will be held on Sunday, 26 May, 2019 - informed the chief of the National Electorate Office Magdalena Pietrzak on Thursday in the Senate.

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The unemployment rate in June was 5.9 percent. Polish Post signed an agreement with labour unions. Eurostat issued data regarding debt of EU countries.

The prosecution's complaint against Civic Platform MP Stanisław Gawłowski's temporary bail release was rejected by the court on Wednesday.

Polish firefighters will help to tackle wildfires in Greece. There are already 140 Polish firemen in Sweden. They are helping to battle fires in this Scandinavian country.

The death toll from a fire which ripped through a Greek coastal town stood at 80 on Wednesday, with dozens of people unaccounted for, as Greece reeled from the horror of victims being burnt alive.

Polish police sometimes punch and kick detainees, a European rights watchdog said on Wednesday, warning that in Poland, which has seen mass anti-government protests in recent years, people being arrested run an "appreciable risk of being ill-treated".

The upper chamber of Poland's parliament has approved an amendment smoothing the way for the ruling party to name the next chief of the Supreme Court, despite street protests and objections from opposition parties.

Several hundred people protested outside the Polish parliament on Tuesday against planned legal amendments aimed at making it easier for the ruling party to name the next Supreme Court head.

A woman who sprayed slogans on one the Law and Justice's offices in Warsaw may face a charge of promoting a totalitarian regime. She wrote "PZPR" in pink paint. The letters are an abbreviation of the Polish United Workers Party that ruled Poland in communist times. The woman admitted to have painted the letters, but says that her aim was to remind some Law and Justice members of their communist past.

Prices of electricity will go up in Poland and in the whole of Europe due to drought. Lowering of the retirement age results in lower pensions. Key contracts for the construction of A1 motorway have been signed.

Prosecutor's office in Szczytno (Warmińsko-Mazurskie voivodeship) is investigating the circumstances of Sunday's accident in amusement park, as a result of which a nine-year-old boy lost his life. According to initial findings, fastenings of the merry-go-round went loose; the machine had valid technical reviews and the staff members were sober.

Andrzej Bargiel reached the summit of K2 on Sunday and as the first-ever person skied all the way down. This is the fourth eight-thousander conquered this way in the career of the 30-year-old Polish mountaineer.

"I've got overpowered by emotions and carried away. I would like to apologise to anyone who felt offended by the mental leap that I've used," said the Speaker of the Senate Stanisław Karczewski on Tuesday.

Polish firefighters are in, Sveg, central Sweden, where they are helping to fight forest fires. They came by ferry from Świnoujście to Malmö. Along the way to Sveg, they were greeted by Swedish firefighters.

A wildfire killed at least 74 people and injured scores more as it swept through a small resort town near Athens and trapped families with children behind walls of smoke and flames as they tried to flee to the beach. During the evacution, a rescue boat drowned with 10 people on board. Two of the victims were Polish citizens.

The Senate Legislation Committee did not recommend on Tuesday for the upper house to approve the President's resolution to hold a national referendum regarding changes to the Constitution.

The Senate committee recommended to whole parliament on Monday to adopt in full the legislation amending laws on the Supreme Court, courts organization, the National Council of the Judiciary and the prosecution. Civic Platform senators demand the rejection of the legislation.

On Friday, there was a tragic accident on the road between Wschowa and Radomyśl in Greater Poland. At about 9:30 p.m. a Land Rover hit two teenage girls riding their bikes home. One of the girls died at the scene and the other was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition.

"Judges do not command an army; a judge will always fall against power; I will be the First Supreme Court President in exile," said Małgorzata Gersdorf on Friday in Germany.