A new progressive party in Poland run by an openly gay politician has vaulted into third place in a public opinion poll, potentially complicating the ruling conservatives' prospects for winning a parliamentary election later this year.

"Winter is yours, spring is ours," said Robert Biedroń to politicians from Wiejska street. He then set out on tour around Poland with his new party and an energy that the Polish political scene has long been lacking. Economists are summing up how much his promises would cost should he won the next elections. On the other hand, people who show on meeting with him are counting on something that cannot be put into numbers.

EU inspectors have come to Poland to Poland to monitor the situation relating to the so-called meat scandal. This after journalists revealed that sick cows were being used for meat in one Polish slaughterhouse. Meanwhile, the minister of agriculture has announced jail sentences, surveillance of slaughterhouses and zero tolerance for foolishness. Meat producers also want more severe punishment for those who ruin their reputation and poison consumers.

Poland has reported a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) among cattle on a farm near the Czech border, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.

Several countries have started to cut the amount of beef they import from Poland after a TV documentary showed an abattoir killing sick cows, the head of the meat producers lobby said on Monday.

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The "big slabs", some them prefabricated, block flats from the communist era are still safe, according to the Building Research Institute which conducted inspections and tests on a few hundred of such buildings. These so-called big slab blocks consist of 4 million apartments which are home to over 12 million Poles. Although they were intended to stand for only a limited number of years, many of them could still serve future generations.

Three and a half years in prison for the "king of designer drugs". The judge had no doubts and said that Dawid B. was selling could have killed six people and over 50 people were hospitalised. He was so overconfident, that when the police closed his shops, he would simply reopen them. He claims he is innocent and he was just selling incense.

The cold is holding on tight but this doesn't mean that ice on lakes is safe. Frozen bodies of water can become deadly traps. Although rescue workers keep on repeating that we aren't safe on frozen ponds and lakes, there are still many people who risk their lives and those of others.

The European Commission said on Friday it will send a team of inspectors to Poland, a beef exporter, after a TV report showed a company killing sick cows and selling the meat for human consumption.

There is a request in the Sejm to waive the immunity for MP Stefan Niesiołowski, following accusations of corruption. The Central Anti-Corruption Bureau claims that there are many threads in this case, including paying for sexual services.

There was a big game and now for the big result to help those in need. A hospital in Poznań has received a modern ambulance for its youngest patients. Doctors are saying that it's a specialist ward on wheels. It's equipped to save the lives of children who are only a few days old. It cost over a million zlotys. The money was raised during the September football match between TVN and the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.

France said on Friday they had identified 795 kilos of suspect meat imported from a Polish abattoir after television footage by "Superwizjer" TVN showed a company killing sick cows and selling the meat for human consumption.

Wednesday marked the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Unites States. The first U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Hugh Gibson lived and worked out of the Bristol hotel in Warsaw, because there was no U.S. Embassy at the time. Poles has always given thanks to President Woodrow Wilson for supporting a free and independent Poland. Although Poland found itself on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, due to no fault of its own, both countries now enjoy close diplomatic relations and military alliance.

"Gazeta Wyborcza" published on Thursday the second of the so-called Kaczyński tapes. The daily presented the recording taken on the 2nd of August 2018, when the Law and Justice's chairman met with Austrian businessman Gerald Birgfellner and lawyers from Baker McKenzie law firm who were working on an investment in construction of two skyscrapers by Srebrna company. Kaczyński was recorded saying that he "cannot afford" to be portrayed as a "wealthy man" in the election campaign, hence the cancellation of the investment.

Two court-appointed psychiatrists have examined Stefan W. - the man who murdered the mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz. They are to publish their opinion on whether the man was sane when he committed the act. Their conlusions should be expected no sooner than next week.

Polish companies at the heart of a food safety scandal sold nearly 10 tonnes of suspect meat to food processing plants, with around a third exported to European Union countries, Poland's chief veterinarian Pawel Niemczuk said on Thursday.

A series of questions for the Chairman of Law and Justice, Jarosław Kaczyński, regarding his business aspirations as a real estate mogul. Why did the chairman of the ruling party negotiate the construction of two skyscrapers worth 1,3 billion zlotys. Furthermore, is he the chairman of a political party or the chairman of the board for a developing company. Finally, what happens when this information is made public?

Polish authorities will install cameras in slaughterhouses and employ more health inspectors to prevent exports of contaminated beef to other EU countries, chief veterinarian Pawel Niemczuk said on Thursday, after a TV report showed sick cows being taken for slaughter.

A bailout for Swiss franc mortgage holders is being called dangerous and unjust by the Polish Bank Association. Poles are opting more and more frequently to pay by credit card rather than with cash. Business news from Poland.