The court in Szczecin twice rejected prosecutors’ requests for arrest in the so-called Police scandal. Now the same prosecutor’s office initiates proceedings against the judges in relations to negligence. “What country do we live in,” asks Włodzimierz Łyczywek, the dean of the District Bar Council in Szczecin.

“There is absolutely no disagreement between President Andrzej Duda and Minister of National Defence, Antoni Macierewicz,” said PiS MEP, Ryszard Czarnecki. “Clearly, there is a conflict,” insist opposition MPs. Politicians reacted to the President's speech delivered during yesterday's celebrations of the Armed Forces Day.

“Immediately after Minister Antoni Macierewicz's decision, the operational commander issued the appropriate orders,” Michał Dworczyk, deputy head of the Ministry of Defence, told reporters on Wednesday, answering questions as to why troops were sent to areas affected by heavy storms only on Monday.

I am confident that in the process of modernization of the armed forces, we will maintain unity as politicians and that we will also be able to maintain unity within the Polish army,” said President Andrzej Duda during Armed Forces Day celebrations. “There is only one Polish army and it must not be split,” he stressed.

Five people, including two teenage girl scouts, died and more than 30 were injured as a result of falling trees in a series of severe storms that hit Poland overnight.

The European Commissioner in charge of food safety has called for a meeting of ministers and national regulatory agencies to discuss a widespread European contamination scare, which has seen shops remove millions of eggs from sale.

“I believe that on the eighth anniversary the monuments will be standing here, and that we will have the final answers about the Smolensk crash,” said PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński on ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. On Thursday evening, members and supporters of the Law and Justice party met to commemorate the 88th mensiversary of the crash. There was also a counter-demonstration.

The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, is concerned that reintroducing a different retirement age for men and women in Poland could violate the bloc's equality rules, according to a letter from Brussels to Warsaw seen by Reuters.

The European Union's executive arm has asked the European Court of Justice to speed up a case against Poland over logging in its ancient forest, which has continued despite an order by the bloc's top court to stop immediately, an official said.

Poland's European future is uncertain, European Council head Donald Tusk said on Thursday amid escalating rows with Brussels over the Polish government's tightening grip on the judiciary, environment and state media.

According to an announcement made on Wednesday by the press service of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, its new mission motto – “To be faithful to my Homeland, the Republic of Poland” – comes from an oath taken by soldiers of the Home Army. The new motto replaced the previous mission motto which read: “To serve Poland – to build Europe – to understand the world”.

"If it is confirmed that the logging continues to take place in the Białowieża Forest, the issue will be taken up in the ongoing rule of law procedure with Poland," the European Commission announced on Wednesday. Until now, the Commission has only been focusing on changes to the Polish judiciary.

On 1 August 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw on orders of the Commander of the Home Army General Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski. For 63 days, a heroic and lonely struggle was waged against German troops. The goal was independent Poland that would be free from both German occupation and Soviet domination.

Poland said on Monday it would press on with logging the country's primeval Bialowieza forest in defiance of a ruling by the European Union's top court, saying it needed to cut down trees to defeat insect pests.

"There is clear disagreement between Law and Justice and Solidarna Polska – the two parties that form the core of the governing coalition – over the conclusions that should be drawn from the President's decision," the President's Chief of Staff Krzysztof Szczerski told the Polish Press Agency. In his opinion, the statement made by the Minister of Justice contradicts what the Chairman of PiS said.

The European Union's top court ordered Poland on Friday July 28th to immediately halt large-scale logging in an ancient protected forest, one of many cases that has pitted the nationalist, eurosceptic government in Warsaw against the bloc.

This part of the political season ends with some optimism. On the one hand, thousands of protesting Poles, and on the other, the President who is finally doing his job,” former Minister of National Defense Tomasz Siemoniak (PO) told “Fakty po Faktach”.

Either the President will go down in history as a great figure, as one of the leaders of the good change, as a man who contributed to building a strong and fair state in Poland, or we have lost,” said Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro, commenting on Andrzej Duda's decision to veto two bills on the judiciary branch.

The College of Commissioners adopted another, already third, recommendation for Poland, with a monthly time limit for Polish authorities to comply, as Frans Timmermans, the First Vice-President of the European Commission informed on Wednesday.

The announcement of two presidential vetoes has not calmed down the protesters who still – although on a much lesser scale – went to the streets of Polish cities. The demonstrators contest the judicial reforms about to be introduced by the Law and Justice party. On Tuesday evening, they gathered in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Wrocław, Krakow, Białystok and Łódź, just to name some.