An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel's unwillingness to boost defence spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has told the secret service coordinator Mariusz Kamiński to take over the interior ministry after Elżbieta Witek, and asked President Andrzej Duda to officially appoint him as the new Minister of the Interior and Administration. Kamiński will remain the head of Polish secret services - the spokesperson for the government Piotr Müller informed on Friday.

Friday marked the official start of campaign before the parliamentary election that is to take take place on October 13. President Duda's resolution was published in the Journal of Laws. All committees have until August 26 to register in the National Electoral Commission.

Elżbieta Witek from the ruling Law and Justice party was appointed as the new Marshal of Sejm on Friday. She replaced her fellow party member Marek Kuchciński who had resigned on Thursday amid private flights scandal.

Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Ryszard Czarnecki must apologize Civic Platform (PO) MEP Róża Thun for comparing her to Nazi collaborators, the so-called Szmalcowniks - the District Court in Warsaw ruled on Friday. The ruling is not yet legally binding.

Unlike Germany, Poland fulfills its obligation to spend 2 percent of GDP on NATO. We would gladly welcome in Poland the American soldiers stationed in Germany - US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Firefighters intervened 484 times after heavy storms that had passed over Poland on Wednesday and at night on Thursday. 2654 households were left without electricity and one firefighter got injured - the spokesman for the Polish Fire Service Paweł Frątczak said.

During Thursday's conference, at which parliament speaker Marek Kuchciński announced his resignation, a video was played showing Jarosław Kaczyński's words from 2011, when Donald Tusk was Poland's prime minister. "It's prime minister's right. Everyone has the right to be at home. We cannot expect from any prime minister to live in Warsaw," Kaczyński said at the time. On Thursday, he reassured that he stood by his words. However, at the same time he said that, during his time as PM, Tusk had taken 281 flights to his hometown of Gdańsk.

Poland wants to make sure a new European Commission stays tough on Russia and is concerned that some European Union countries are growing increasingly friendly towards its eastern neighbour, even as the Kremlin cracks down on dissent.

Poland's parliament speaker, Marek Kuchcinski, said on Thursday he would resign after it was revealed that he used government aircraft for private trips by family members.

Parliamentary elections will be held on October 13. Officially, the campaigns begin when the information is published in the Journal of Laws. Unofficially, however, the campaigning is already under way.

Protesters gathered in Warsaw on Wednesday (August 7) demanding the resignation of Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski after a series of anti-gay rhetoric.

A verifying procedure has been launched regarding Marshal Kuchciński's flights - Mirosława Chyr from District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw said on Monday. The investigators are verifying information contained in a written notification regarding suspicion of an offense.

The Regional Court in Gliwice on Wednesday disbanded the nationalist association Pride and Modernity. Its members were participating in the so-called Hitler's birthday party that was infiltrated and filmed by TVN "Superwizjer" journalists.

We were expecting publication of the full details of Marshal Marek Kuchciński's flights, but the information released raises as many questions as it answers. The destinations and events the Marshal have been revealed, but not the names and functions of the people who travelled with him.

A stork, abandoned by his parents, has found a new home with Polish farmers in the northern town of Kamienica.

The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) party has changed its name from SLD to Lewica (The Left) - the spokesperson for the party, Anna-Maria Żukowska informed on Tuesday after the national convention of the alliance.

Brunon Kwiecień has died - the spokeswoman for the General Director of the Prison Service, lieutenant-colonel Elżbieta Krakowska. The man was found dead on his bed in his cell. "A post-mortem will help to determine the cause of death," she added. A few years ago, Kwiecień was sentenced for preparing an attack on the Polish Sejm.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has signed the decision to hold the parliamentary elections on the 13th of October, 2019 - the president's spokesman Błażej Spychalski informed on Tuesday evening.

The Centre for the Monitoring of Racist and Xenophobic Behaviours submitted a notice to the prosecutor on the suspicion that a crime had been committed by Archbishop Jędraszewski. In question are his words on the "rainbow disease", spoken during a mass he conducted in honour of the 75th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising.