Mariusz Kamiński, a former interior minister and Law and Justice (PiS) MP, and his former deputy at the ministry, Maciej Wąsik, heard criminal charges for participating in parliamentary work despite having been issued a court ban on holding public office. Both politicians refused to acknowledge the charges and dismissed them as "political repression" carried out by the current government.

"If all the words that were said in the last years here in Brussels about common defence, could be changed into bullets and rocket launchers, Europe would have become the strongest power in the world. And the safest place," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on X on Thursday (April 18), during the first day of a special European Council summit in Brussels.

Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed Ukraine and the Middle East with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a meeting in New York on Wednesday at which the former U.S. president said he was "behind Poland all the way".

Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday (April 17) that he would meet privately with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his visit to New York.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been listed by the Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. Tusk received a written laudation from the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Time's Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs wrote that the list includes people who "most changed the stories that define the past year".

Warsaw police are looking for the person or persons responsible for destroying an apiary kept on the premises of the Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów. "Twenty bee families lived here. Three of them are already gone. The condition of the rest is yet to be determined," the museum said in a statement.

The maximum power price for Polish households will be set at 500 zlotys ($123) per megawatt-hour (MWh) for the second half of 2024, according to a draft bill posted on the government's website late on Tuesday (April 16), up from 412 zlotys per MWh currently.

Polish Border Guard officers and soldiers safeguarding the Polish-Belarusian border found an Ethopian woman who had given birth to a little girl just hours before. The mother and the newborn were both taken to a hospital in Hajnówka.

Poland's core inflation in March 2024 dropped to 4.6% year on year, compared to 5.4% y/y in February - the National Bank of Poland said in a statement released on Tuesday (April 16). The core inflation measure is used to show inflation net of food and energy prices.

Polish President Andrzej Duda may meet Donald Trump during a visit to New York this week, he said on Tuesday (April 16), as European leaders prepare for the possibility of the Republican's return to the White House.

Surveillance with the use of Pegasus spyware in 2017-2022 targeted 578 persons - according to information the Prosecutor General's office has sent to the parliament. The highest number of people spied on with Pegasus was recorded in 2021, when 162 persons were under surveillance.

Renowned Polish sociologist and political scientist, Professor Jadwiga Staniszkis, has passed away at the age of 81.

Professor Zbigniew Mikołejko has passed away at the age of 72. He was a distinguished philosopher, historian of religion and ideas, essayist and poet.

The goosander (Mergus merganser) is a protected bird species which in Warsaw can be found practically only in Łazienki Park. Right after hatching out, chicks follow their mothers and head towards Vistula River. Although the whole path is not very long, it does include a very difficult obstacle for the birds to surmount - the busy Czerniakowska Street. This year's first brave goosander mother successfully lead her offspring across the road. As every year, city services helped the birds migrate safely.

There's no threat to Polish citizens in Israel, but warnings remain in place. Those who don't have to, please do not travel there - Polish MFA spokesperson Paweł Wroński said on Monday (April 15).

President Andrzej Duda is a separate political player and the European Commission is aware of that - Poland's development funds and regional policy minister said on Monday (April 15), after announcing that Warsaw has received 6.3 billion euros in EU recovery funds. The minister added that Poland would carry out reforms fixing the rule of law in full as soon as it's possible.

Only 11 players have completed the "Sunshine Double", winning Indian Wells and the Miami Open back-to-back, but world number one Iga Świątek comes to Florida looking to join an even more exclusive club of those that have managed a double-double.

Polish farmers blocked roads with tractors and flares on Wednesday (March 20) in escalating protests against EU environmental regulations and cheap food imports from neighbouring Ukraine which the bloc provisionally agreed to prolong.

Poland will need an extension of EU rules that allow coal plant subsidies until 2028 as it will require coal power generation until it builds its first nuclear plant next decade, the top energy security official in the new government told Reuters.

A U.S. Air Force unmanned drone lost communication with base during a test flight from Romania to Poland on Monday evening. The MQ9 Reaper drone was forced into emergency landing and the military located it shortly after. "Everything was under control," Poland's Air Force Inspector assured on Tuesday (March 19).

A motion to put Adam Glapiński before the State Tribunal has been prepared and is ready. It will be filed in the coming days, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday (March 19). Glapiński is the chief of Poland's central bank. He has been appointed to this role by the previous government, led by the Law and Justice party.

The only wedding known to have taken place in the Auschwitz concentration camp was held exactly 80 years ago. Austrian inmate Rudolf Friemel and Spanish forced laborer Margarita Ferrer Rey made their vows in one of the most terrifying places the world has ever seen.

Poland's Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Monday (March 18) that the government was not considering to send troops to Ukraine. The minister spoke at a joint press conference held with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius. He also announced that on March 26 Poland and Germany would launch an "armored capabilities coalition" to support Ukraine.

World number one Iga Świątek dominated ninth seed Maria Sakkari to win the Indian Wells final 6-4 6-0 and claim the title for a second time in the California desert on Sunday (March 17).

The European Commission proposed on Friday (March 15) an easing of a series of rules on leaving land fallow or rotating crops, offering concessions to farmers who have protested with tractor blockades across Europe over the past few months.

The leader of Poland's largest opposition party, former deputy prime minister Jarosław Kaczyński, said on Friday (March 15) he would refuse to tell everything he knows to a parliamentary commission investigating allegations of phone-hacking when his party, Law and Justice, was in power.

Poland, Germany and France speak with one voice on security issues and there is no division between them, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday (March 15) during the Weimar Tringle summit in Berlin. The event's host, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, assured that the three countries' "common aim is and remains to ensure Ukraine can effectively defend itself against Russia's invasion". French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his warning that it was not just Ukrainian, but European security at stake.

Land lying fallow no longer mandatory starting already this year - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on social media on Friday (March 15). He added the decision was a result of his talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Earlier that day, Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski informed that the EU executive would propose legislative changes to the Green Deal.

"I see very strong determination from the side of the current government to correct things which, in my view, were wrong in the past," EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova told TVN24 on Thursday (March 14). This way she commented on the ongoing changes to the Polish judiciary system. Asked if said changes could lead the EU to end the Article 7 procedure against Poland, Jourova said that "the ball is on Polish playground".