By June, the multi-specialist voivodeship hospital in Gorzów has to get rid of 100 beds. This is 10 percent of total the spots for patients. New laws on minimal norms on employing nurses and midwives require the reduction of beds.

If it was up to them, today Poland would not be in the EU. 88 percent of those who voted were against joining the union, which was the national record in the referendum to join. Would residents of Godziszów vore in the same also today or would they change their minds? Has anything changed for the better in their region in the last 15 years?

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have chosen a new president on Tuesday. Poland's Witold Bańka, a former middle distance runner will take over the reigns of the troubled body.

Following the arrest of a woman who hung posters showing the Black Madonna of Częstochowa with a rainbow-coloured halo, the interior minister has attempted to clarify the event. However, the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights is not convinced.

A tragic accident took place during the 5th Żuławy Rally. During the second lap of the 2-kilometre long track, one of the teams went off the road and rolled into a ditch. The driver and his pilot were killed on the spot. The police are now investigating whether the rally organizers took proper safety precautions for the event.

Activists from environmental group Greenpeace covered the headquarters of major Polish political parties with black banners bearing the slogan "Poland without coal 2030" in Warsaw on Tuesday.

Poland announced plans on Tuesday to tighten sentences for child sex abuse, just days after the country's politics were upended by a documentary on paedophilia in the Catholic Church, closely allied to the nationalist ruling Law and Justice party.

The Senate passed without any corrections an amendment to the law on the "Family 500+" program, which will grant 500 zlotys per month to every Polish child, without restrictions.

A herd of 170 cows will be killed. This was decided by the Veterinary Inspectorate in Gorzów. For many years, the animals have been wandering free through the Lubuskie village of Ciecierzyce. Local residents have complained about them because they enter people's gardens and walk on to the roads which is dangerous for drivers. The cows have an owner but local officials claim the he isn't capable of taking care of them. As a result, the problem will be dealt with in another manner.

The Polish job market continues to be strong, while the disposable income of Poles is growing. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

There’s no doubt that the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries have gotten closer to the EU than ever before, said the European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday in Brussels, to mark the official commemorations of the 10th anniversary of launching the Partnership.

Thousands protested in the Czech capital Prague for a third week running on Monday against a new justice minister who they fear could meddle in a criminal case against the prime minister.

The head of the Polish Teachers Union, Sławomir Broniarz is demanding an explanation and apology from the Deputy Minister of Culture, Jarosław Sellin. The latter blamed the recent bomb threats in schools on some of the striking teachers who, he claimed, wanted to prevent the exams going forward.

A romance that might have ended in murder. In Łódź, a trial began of a woman and her lover, both suspected of having killed her husband. Neither of them is pleading guilty. The murder took place in November 2017, but even now emotions still run high in the courtroom.

The US Embassy in Warsaw has started the campaign called #VisaWaiverForPoland which is aimed at encouraging Poles to apply for visas. The higher ratio of visa approval to denials will mean that Poland can get into the visa waiver program. Therefore, everyone is encouraged to apply. There's still time to do so until September. The US Ambassador, Georgette Mosbacher personally took part, spending a morning in a cubicle, answering calls and talking to applicants.

The Polish President and First Lady have been officially invited to the White House. Andrzej Duda and Agata Kornhauser-Duda will meet Donald and Melania Trump in June in Washington. Among other topics, the presidents will be discussing stationing of American troops in Poland.

Polish economic miracle has been going on for the last 30 years and its growth can be attributed to good policy decisions, said Kevin Hassett, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for the President of the United States. Our very own Mateusz Walczak cought up with him at the Warsaw School of Economics.

The stories of Holocaust survivors of the Majdanek concentration camp in the eastern Polish city of Lublin have been brought to life in a new graphic novel.

Polish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa has urged the Catholic Church to prevent further sexual abuse of children by members of its clergy after a new documentary film showed his priest to be one of the accused.

The leader of Poland's conservative ruling party promised harsher sentences for child abuse on Sunday, as the release of a documentary about paedophile priests created a fresh battleground in an election campaign marked by debate on religion and sexuality.