Nobel Literature laureates Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke delivered their lectures in Stockholm on Saturday (December 7).

"My spontaneous reaction was to dedicate this award to the democratic movement in Poland and I asked people to vote for democracy and against totalitarian tendencies and this speech of mine was quite warmly received and I think it might have had some influence on the elections," Olga Tokarczuk said at a press conference at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Friday, marking the start of the Nobel Week. During the following days, the laureates will give press conferences and hold their Nobel Lectures. The week culminates in the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet on 10 December and ends with visits to the Nobel Foundation. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

Turkey will block final publication of a NATO defence plan for the Baltics and Poland until allies agree to designate the Syrian Kurdish YPG a terrorist group, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.

Angela Merkel expressed "deep shame" on Friday during her first visit as chancellor to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Holocaust memorial and vowed to fight rising racism and anti-Semitism in Germany and Europe.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki have paid their respects to the victims of the death-camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Then two heads of state laid wreaths at the Death Wall in the courtyard of Block 11, followed by Auschwitz museum director Piotr Cywiński placing a urn with a candle at the wall.

The opposition is demanding that the report from the verification process conducted by the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) to be presented to the Sejm. Meanwhile, the Internal Security Agency (ABW) has launched its own verification process concerning the President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK). Marian Banaś has explicitly stated that he will not step down. Now, yet another question arises - will he have a security clearance needed to fulfil his duty as president of the NIK?

It wasn't in the Presidential Palace, but in the Belvedere. Without journalists or cameras, President Andrzej Duda swore in three new judges to the Constitutional Tribunal - Krystyna Pawłowicz, Stanisław Piotrowicz and Jakub Stelina.

Angela Merkel will make her first visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial on Friday after 14 years as German chancellor, bringing a 60 million euro donation to help conserve the site where the Nazis ran their largest death camp, the museum said.

Central European countries that flout the rule of law risk hurting innovation and growth by losing out in the race to attract foreign investors, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) chief economist said on Thursday.

In a secret mission spanning several months, more than a hundred tonnes of gold bars were transported from London back to Poland.

The Supreme Court on Thursday deemed in its ruling the newly created National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) "not impartial and independent". Furthermore, Poland's top court said that its Disciplinary Chamber is not a court under the EU and Polish law.

Polish officials have seized two tonnes of cocaine from Colombia worth around 2 billion zlotys ($510 million), Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday.

A group of armed men wearing balaclavas and military outfits stormed into an elementary school in Barczewo and made noise with firecrackers. Some children panicked, one even jumped out of the window. The students had no idea that this was a planned simulation of terrorist attack ordered by the headmaster, who was dismissed shortly after the terrifying drill. The mayor of Barczewo also notified the prosecutor's office.

Chairman of Polish Judges' Association "Iustitia" Krystian Markiewicz has been accused of committing 55 disciplinary misconducts. Among them is inciting to disrespecting "of Poland's legal order" - informed the disciplinary spokesperson for common courts Piotr Schab. "If I were to stop defending the rule of law as a judge, then I'd rather cease to be a judge," Markiewicz said in response.

Eight people, including four children, died after a three-story building in the southern Polish ski resort of Szczyrk collapsed following a gas explosion, authorities said on Thursday.

Two trucks carrying Soviet T-72 tanks were pulled over in central Poland on Tuesday (December 3) for violating transportation laws.

The Marshal of the Senate Tomasz Grodzki has met with the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli in Brussels. "It was a very nice, constructive meeting," said the Italian politician. Marshal Grodzki declared his readiness for cooperation between the Senate and the EU Parliament.

"I was ready to submit resignation but I became a victim of brutal political game" - the President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) Marian Banaś said in a statement on Wednesday. He declared he was ready to asnwer any questions asked by investigators, and if need be, to give up his immunity. "I shall continue my mission with a sense of responsibility," he added.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that Turkey had dropped its block on a plan to bolster the defences of Baltic states and Poland against Russia.

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), organised by the OECD, tested the academic abilities of 15-year-olds. Science, math and reading comprehension are the subjects in which Polish middle schoolers found themselves ranked among the highest in Europe and the world.