The chairman of Poland's biggest opposition party - Civic Platform's (PO) Grzegorz Schetyna - announced on Friday that he wouldn't be running for re-election and recommended former Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak as his replacement. "I'm closing a stage after which PO is in much better condition than it was in 2015 and 2016," Schetyna said.

Four more outbreaks of bird flu have been reported across Poland, authorities said on Friday, bringing the total number of incidents in Europe's largest poultry producer to six this week.

The Marshal of the Polish Senate Tomasz Grodzki has sent a letter to the Venice Commission, in which he asks for an opinion regarding changes to Polish law on courts recently passed by the lower house - deputy chief of the Senate Information Centre (CIS) Anna Godzwon informed on Thursday.

Poland strongly condemns the attack and storming of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad which started on December 31, 2019 - Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote on its website.

The Regional Court in Turek (Greater Poland Voivodeship) on Thursday decided to place 19-year-old Maciej J. under arrest. The teenager has been accused of murdering his younger brother.

A passenger car with two 20-year-olds was hit by a train on Thursday on an unguarded crossing on a road between Borucin and Podgaje (Greater Poland Voivodeship). Unfortunately, both men died at the scene.

Stanisław Piotrowicz must issue an apology statement in television addressed to the First President of the Supreme Court (SN) Małgorzata Gersdorf, and to a judge of that court Krzysztof Rączka, for infringing on their personal interests with his comment on judges - the Warsaw District Court ruled on Thursday.

Bird flu has been detected in turkeys in eastern Poland, authorities said on Wednesday, and local media reported that the outbreak could require up to 40,000 birds to be slaughtered.

On the last day of 2019, there were 39 road accidents, in which 6 people died, 41 were injured, and 96 drunk drivers were detained - Commissioner Dawid Marciniak from General Police Headquarters informed on Wednesday.

On the last day of 2019 and the first 6 hours of 2020 there have been 1246 fires in Poland, which took the lives of 2 people and left 12 injured - the spokesman for the Polish State Fire Service (PSP) Senior Brigadier Paweł Frątczak said on Wednesday.

Robert Kubica has joined Alfa Romeo as their 2020 reserve driver, the role the Pole carried out 14 years ago when he made his Formula One debut with the Swiss-based team then known as BMW Sauber.

Starting on January 1st, the amended law on road transport, referred to as "lex Uber", became effective. The new legislation is to bring order to transport companies market and to do away with grey economy. Among the introduced changes, drivers won't be required to pass city topography tests, and will be allowed to replace taximeters with applications.

Autopsy of a 9-year-old boy, who according to unofficial information is said to have been murdered by his older brother, has been scheduled for Wednesday. The tragedy took place on Tuesday around 1pm in Turek (Greater Poland Voivodeship), after the brothers fought over a computer game.

Warsaw Inner City Police officers have detained the third man suspected of attacking activists from Food Not Bombs group while they were serving food to homeless people - the spokesman for the Capital Police Headquarters Senior Commissioner Sylwester Marczak said on Tuesday.

Poland is working on legislation that will ease the burden on consumers of the rising cost of electricity, Minister of State Assets Jacek Sasin said on Tuesday.

An Israeli who confessed to spitting on Poland's ambassador at a time of heightened tensions between the countries was convicted on Monday of assault, an offence that could carry up to two years in jail.

Russian Ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, was urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MSZ) on Friday, due to recent comments made by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin - Polish foreign ministry announced.

Firefighters intervened over 2.300 times over the Christamas period (24th, 25th and 26th of December) - the spokesman for the Polish State Fire Service (PSP) Senior Brigadier Paweł Frątczak informed on Friday. He added that in the said period there were 612 fires in which 8 people died and 35 got injured. One person died due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, told Italian daily "La Repubblica" that she has been promised by the Polish government that it would engage in common efforts to reach climate neutrality. She also admitted that Poland needs more time than other EU member-states.

On Christmas Eve and the two following Christmas Days, 187 accidents took place on Polish roads, which took the lives of 20 people - according to the statistics announced by the General Police Headquarters. In total, 233 people got injured and 506 drunk drivers were detained.