Pensioners are receiving a raise while the Polish budget saw a surplus of 6,6 billion zlotys at the beginning of this year. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

The chief of Podlasie police has been reprimanded for calling on people to write anonymous letters about a Civic Platform MP.

British lawmakers on Wednesday rejected leaving the European Union without a deal in any scenario, paving the way for a vote to seek to delay Brexit until at least the end of June.

Hungary's pro-government media continued to publish anti-EU messages on Wednesday despite a promise by a government official to halt the campaign during talks with a centre-right European grouping on Tuesday.

Pope Francis on Friday branded anti-Semitism part of a wave of "depraved hatred" sweeping some countries and urged everyone to be vigilant against it.

The Catholic Church in Poland is set to release data concerning paedophilia on Thursday. It is expected to cover all cases of child sex abuse by priests since 1990. One victim who has received compensation has spoken out. She won a one million zloty payment from the Society of Christ Fathers and will also receive 800 zlotys per month for life. The society, though, is appealing to the Supreme Court.

The government has a contingency plan for the looming prospect of a teachers' strike during the exam period. It would involve teachers from other schools substituting for those on strike. Of course, they would have to find teachers willing to do so and tensions are rising.

Scores of Polish farmers, many wearing fluorescent jackets similar to those worn by protestors in France's "yellow vest" movement blocked rush hour traffic in central Warsaw on Wednesday with piles of burning straw, apples and a pig carcass strewn across the road.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights vs the Mayor of Warsaw. This is in connection with the LGBT Declaration signed by Rafał Trzaskowski. Though the Warsaw's mayor signed the document less than a month ago, it has only now entered the realm of public debate. All of this due to Jarosław Kaczyński's words during the Law and Justice's party convention that took place last weekend.

It was the confirmation of Poland's sovereignity and independence, as it was was leaving the Russian sphere of influence and entering the West - this how President Andrzej Duda described Poland's accession to NATO. Monday marked the 20th anniversary of signing the treaty.

The European Union's aviation safety regulator on Tuesday suspended all flights in the bloc by Boeing 737 MAX planes in the biggest setback yet for the U.S. planemaker following a crash in Ethiopia that killed 157 people.

I have decided to close Polish airspace for Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircrafts, the President of Poland's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Piotr Samson informed on Tuesday. He also expressed his hope that the whole European airspace would be closed for the said aircrafts as soon as possible.

The founders of a statue in Gdańsk of a priest active in Poland's Solidary movement, who has also been accused of paedophilia, voluntarily took down the statue after local councillors voted to remove it.

The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity telethon raised a record 175,9 million zlotys. It's almost 50 million more than last year. The charity's president, Jerzy Owsiak made the announcement in the European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk. He made reference to Gdańsk mayor Paweł Adamowicz who was murdered during this year's fundraiser.

After a long struggle with illness, one of the co-creators of TVN24 and TVN24 BIS, journalist and our dear colleague, Sebastian Podkościelny has passed away. He was 47.

European Council President Donald Tusk called on voters across the continent to reject anti-European parties he said had been set up by hostile foreign forces and could try to use upcoming EU parliamentary elections to seize influence in Brussels.

Poland is pressing ahead with plans to dig a waterway across a narrow strip of land that separates its main eastern coastline from the Baltic Sea despite concerns among activists and in the European Union that it could damage the environment.

Residents in the Polish city of Łódź are being offered a new way to pay for parking: with their conscience.

With tanks firing and smoke rising from controlled explosions during military drills in Warsaw, 'Visegrad Group' prime ministers on Sunday marked anniversaries of their NATO membership.

Regional Court in Białystok ruled that the two man accused of abducting a 25-year-old woman and her 3-year-old daughter would be remanded in custody for three months. One of the accused is the little girl's father. The decision isn't legally binding and the accused may appeal against it.