The chief of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Claude Moraes said on Monday in the European Parliament that the September's report from the LIBE delegation to Warsaw proves the rule of law in Poland is under threat. He also presented conclusions from this report.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the world is "off-track" in reaching 2020 Paris agreements and countries need to increase their ambition.

Another win by the police. Lower Silesian officers assisted by German police and Interpol broke up an international criminal organisation. Its members stole some 120 luxury cars worth almost 30 million zlotys. More than 100 officers took part in the large operation in the city of Wrocław and environs. In Lower Silesia, 3 men have been detained. Two of them were wanted under the European Arrest Warrant. All 3 were charge in total for 33 offenses. During the search operation, the police have found car parts from dozens of stolen vehicles. Earlier on, German police have seized two containers in which they found car parts and partially cut up vehicles. In that operation, the police have also arrested 3 people. Investigators determine that the crime group stole cars and transported them in parts or whole to Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates.

The World Bank will give equal weight to curbing emissions and helping poor countries deal with the "disastrous effects" of a warming world as it steps up investments to tackle climate change in the first half of the 2020s, it said on Monday.

An illegal cigarette factory has been closed down near Warsaw. Seven people have been detained, including six citizens of Ukraine. The suspects are between 28 and 58 years old. They have been brought to the prosecutors office and temporarily detained. Police have also secured 2,5 million cigarettes with forged trademarks of two popular brands, as well as 10 tonnes of tobacco. The value of the seized materials and machines is estimated at around 5,5 million zlotys. The cigarettes were to be smuggled into the United Kingdom.

The city of Wrocław wants to introduce a programme that would reduce air pollution. The authorities are considering, among other ideas, the solution implemented in Paris, namely allowing cars with license plates with odd numbers on one day, and with even on the other. One of other potential solution is the one Norwegians applied in Oslo with introducing toll booths that would charge a small fee for driving into the city centre. Each of the five scenarios included in the report published on the city hall's website evokes mixed emotions among the residents of Wrocław.

Austria, Israel, Slovenia, Macedonia and Latvia will be Poland's rivals in Group G of in the qualifications for Euro 2020. The draw was held in Dublin on Sunday and Poland was among the highest ranked teams in pot 1. The national teams of 55 UEFA members were drawn into 10 groups - five of five teams and five of six teams.

British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough on Monday urged world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".

Delegates from nearly 200 nations on Sunday (December 2) began two weeks of talks to tackle deep political divisions at the most important United Nations meeting on global warming since the landmark 2015 Paris deal to shift away from fossil fuels.

Unless the court that has sent the request for a preliminary ruling to ECJ withdraws its motion, the European Court will continue to process it, the Court of Justice of the European Union explained in a letter sent to the Chairman of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland.

The most important United Nations climate conference since the Paris Agreement of 2015 opens on Sunday in Katowice, Poland, one of the most polluted coal-mining regions in Europe.

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, died on Friday at the age of 94.

Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz on Saturday (December 1) called for the European Union to impose new sanctions on Moscow after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships and took their crew.

In the state run by Law and Justice, only the institutions filled with the ruling party's nominees receive proper funding, said Marcin Kierwiński, an MP from the opposition Civic Platform party. With these words he commented on the decision by a parliamentary committee to cut funding for the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (RPO). Law and Justice's MP Jan Mosiński argued that the RPO's activities include "political projects" that shouldn't be financed.

The Polish and Danish gas grid operators have taken a final investment decision to build a gas pipeline linking Poland to Norwegian fields via Danish territory and the Baltic Sea, Poland’s state-owned Gaz-System said on Friday.

The European Union will extend its existing economic sanctions on Russia next month, a top official with the bloc said on Friday after Moscow's action against Ukraine's navy in the Sea of Azov.

At a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and the Minister of Interior Affairs and Administration Joachim Brudziński, Polish police were issued two brand new S-70i Black Hawk helicopters. Never before was the police given new helicopters, the prime minister underscored.

Traditional Kraków nativity scenes listed by UNESCO. The Nativity Scene (szopka) tradition in Kraków is a social practice originating from Christmas celebration customs, centred around constructing cribs. Born in the nineteenth century, the tradition is indissolubly connected to the City of Kraków and based on skills and knowledge passed down for generations.

The U.S. State Department approved the sale of 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers to Poland to strengthen security in the region and modernise the country's military, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency said.

Polish government and trade unions want further changes to the Sunday trade ban. Poland took the shameful 26th place in terms of spending on health care system. Over half a million Poles with higher education live abroad.