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.

The draft budget law for 2020, adopted by the PiS government on Monday, reached the lower house of parliament (the Sejm) on Friday. The project assumes zero-deficit with revenue and spending balanced at 435.3 billion zlotys, which is roughly 5 bln more than it was planned in September.

A British lawyer of Indian origin demands 700.000 zlotys in compensation and damages – that’s how much he expects to receive for being forced to stay in Poland, in a detention centre in Warsaw’s Białołęka district.

The October 13 parliamentary elections are valid - the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court announced on Monday.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki informed on Monday that the Council of Ministers adopted a draft bill on no-deficit budget for 2020.

They were supposed to be taken to a zoo in Dagestan in Russia, but it turned out that there was no zoo. It's very likely that they were going to meet their death by being sold in Asia, possibly cut into pieces. TVN24's "Czarno na Białym" presents a terrifying, yet moving story of 10 tigers - a story that moved Poland two months ago. We will show you its happy ending, although a completely different outcome was very close. We know quite a lot about what happened to the tigers when they were in Poland. Their story gathered significant media attention when their transport got stuck at the border with Belarus, when they were rescued and taken care of in Poznań, and when they finally found asylum in Spain. However, this is only a part of this story. In order to discover the animals' ordeal in its entirety, TVN24's Katarzyna Górniak set off to several countries, trying to find all remaining traces. She managed to find people responsible for sending the tigers on this harrowing journey, and those to whom the animals were sent to. They weren't very willing to discuss the issue, some refused to have their identities revealed. Watch the full report entitled: "Tigers on the border".

"This narration must stop, the one about judges fighting to preserve their status, that they oppose changes and stand against the government - this is completely untrue," Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Gersdorf wrote in her statement issued on Monday.

A Polish judge suspended for questioning the ruling party's judicial reforms may return to work, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, in a case that brought thousands of protesters onto the streets in a show of solidarity.

Poland's lower house of parliament approved the latest reform of the judiciary on Friday, despite the European Commission calling it to hold off adopting a law which it says would imperil the rule of law.

The newest overhaul of the Polish justice system has a "chilling effect" on the judiciary and may negatively affect judges' ability to express their voice, the United Nation's human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said on Friday (December 20).

Poland's ruling nationalists signalled on Thursday they plan to water down legislation allowing for judges to be disciplined for questioning judicial reforms, in an apparent attempt to ease a dispute between Brussels and Warsaw over democratic standards.

Thousands gathered in cities across Poland on Wednesday to protest against a proposal by the ruling nationalists that would allow for judges to be fired if they question the legitimacy of the government's judicial reforms.

The film "Corpus Christi" by Jan Komasa has been shortlisted for an Oscar. It was chosen as one of ten films, out of 91, for Best International Feature Film.

The Polish 1970 strikes have become a symbol for Poles. Tuesday marked 49 years since the militia fired shots at workers on the Polish seaside. Of these 49 were killed and more than 1.000 wounded.

Thirty years ago, Leszek Balcerowicz unleashed the "shock therapy" that put Poland on the path to rapid economic growth after decades of communist rule. Business boomed, the economy expanded and the former finance minister and central bank chief won plaudits in the West for his reforms. But after three decades of economic progress, Balcerowicz says Poland's ability to keep catching up with the wealthier West is threatened by the policies of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party.

"It’s unacceptable. Unacceptable. That’s why the European Commission has already launched a sanction procedure against Poland for violating the rule of law principle, that of separation of powers, and of independence of courts. These are fundamental principles of European democracy," said the head of the Paris Bar Association, Marie-Aimée Peyron in an interview for TVN24. The French lawyer was referring to a legislation submitted to parliament on December 12 by Poland's ruling PiS party, under which judges could be sacked if they question the legitimacy of its judicial reforms. The bill also says judges must inform their superiors of past membership of political parties and of any activity in non-governmental organisations and on social media.

Poland could end up leaving the European Union because of plans by the ruling nationalists that would allow judges to be fired if they question the legitimacy of the government's judicial reforms, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday.

The EU Parliament has spoken on Polish judicial reform. In Strasbourg a debate was held on the rule of law in Poland and Hungary. Law and Justice MEPs tries to defend the changes, but failed to convince their counterparts.

For the moment there will be no more adoptions of animals. The shelter in Bełchatów has suspended them. This means that people will not be able to bring a new pet home for the holidays. The shelter has perfectly good intentions for making this decision.

Olga Tokarczuk donated her Nobel Prize replica to the 28th Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. It was hand-made with silver and covered in gold and has already gone to the auction. The grand finale will take place on the 12th of January.

The oldest was 48, the youngest - 19, and there was 9 of them in total. They all died from militia bullets, whereas 23 were injured. Monday marked the 38th anniversary of the bloody pacification of miners at the "Wujek" coal mine by the military and militia.

There was no veto from the Polish prime minister, so the EU climate neutrality goal will still include Poland. Organisations that deal with climate politics note that the only thing Mateusz Morawiecki brought back from Brussels was a 6-month delay in an unchangeable decision. This means that Europe would be the first continent to achieve climate neutrality, and for the moment, the only one.

Questions are being asked of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) President - on huge sums of money, on how he had 200.000 zlotys at his home, on why he didn't put 2 million zlotys on his asset declaration. "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" poses these questions about Marian Banaś' assets. Meanwhile, the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau has doubts on the issue. The prosecutor is investigating, and the head of Law and Justice admits that the party hopes the NIK president will be guided by common sense and resign.

Representatives of Allies countries and Germany gathered in Bastogne - a small town in the Belgian Ardennes - on Monday (December 16) to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the bloodiest single engagement for U.S. forces in World War Two.

The European Union should bypass national governments that flout democratic standards and deal directly with municipalities as they can perform "miracles" in areas such as climate change, the mayors of four eastern European capital cities said on Monday.