Russia has deployed advanced nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, the RIA news agency quoted a senior lawmaker as saying on Monday.

"We will never restrict freedom of debate about the Holocaust. This we owe everyone who experienced it," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a speech dedicated to the law on the Institute of National Remembrance. The Prime Minister explained that Poland is enacting the new law to fight for the truth about the Holocaust.

Poland's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Warsaw hopes relations with the United States will remain unchanged after the Polish parliament adopted a draft bill penalising suggestions of any complicity by Poland in the Nazi Holocaust.

Polish lawmakers approved draft legislation on Thursday penalising suggestions of any complicity by Poland in the Nazi Holocaust on its soil during World War Two, defying criticism by Israel and the United States.

Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, explained on TVN24 why Israel found the amended bill on the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) controversial. "In Israel, this bill is treated as something that may potentially enable the prosecution of journalists or even the very Holocaust survivors who share their stories," she said. She stressed that in her opinion, these regulations could cause "a much greater storm" in her homeland than in Poland.

Labour shortages are the top concern for Poland's monetary policy, the governor of the central bank said on Tuesday, adding he was worried whether the country could attract enough workers from neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus.

Israel's prime minister and Holocaust survivors on Sunday bridled at a draft Polish law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil.

“I interpreted Minister Zieliński’s words as an attempt at intimidating the authors of this programme,” Bertold Kittel, one of the authors of TVN’s Superwizjer feature on Polish neo-Nazis, said on TVN24’s Wstajesz i wiesz programme on Thursday. He was addressing the Deputy Minister’s claim that journalists had an “obligation to inform law enforcement agencies” about the results of their investigation.

Senator Jan Żaryn is demanding “civic denunciation” from journalists before they publish investigative materials. Meanwhile, the senator’s demands have no legal grounds, as confirmed by lawyers inquired by tvn24.pl and by an article in a trade journal for prosecutors made available by the National Public Prosecutor’s Office.

An “altar” in honour of Adolf Hitler, a burning swastika, “Sieg Heil!”. That’s what happens at Polish neo-Nazis’ meetings. Journalists of “Superwizjer” TVN managed to infiltrate this community. Footage made with a hidden camera shows the inner workings of the community.

“Organisations employing symbols and notions that glorify or even tolerate German Nazism, like Pride and Modernity (Duma i Nowoczesność), should be banned,” PM Mateusz Morawiecki told journalists on Tuesday.

The EU's justice commissioner is working on a proposal that could oblige member states such as Poland, which has clashed with Brussels over reforms to its courts, to pass tests on the independence of their judicial systems before receiving funding.

Police raided sites in seven German states and detained two people in Berlin on Wednesday on suspicion of links to a gang smuggling Syrians through Poland to Germany, a federal police spokesman said.

The European Union is not at war with Poland and is not set on sanctioning the country "come what may", European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday.

Germany and Poland said on Wednesday they would consider setting up a commission to explore Polish calls for reparations for German actions during World War Two.

Public support for Poland's ruling conservatives has risen while backing for the biggest opposition party fell as a recent government reshuffle helped ease voters' dissatisfaction with Warsaw's clashes with the EU, an opinion poll showed.

Hundreds of Poles gathered in front of the parliament building in Warsaw on Saturday evening to protest against proposals for tight restrictions on abortion debated by lawmakers this week.

Poland will comply with an EU court order to stop cutting trees in Bialowieza forest, except where public safety has to be ensured, its new environment minister said on Friday - words certain to disappoint campaigners who want logging to end there.