Friday marked the official start of campaign before the parliamentary election that is to take take place on October 13. President Duda's resolution was published in the Journal of Laws. All committees have until August 26 to register in the National Electoral Commission.

Elżbieta Witek from the ruling Law and Justice party was appointed as the new Marshal of Sejm on Friday. She replaced her fellow party member Marek Kuchciński who had resigned on Thursday amid private flights scandal.

Law and Justice (PiS) MEP Ryszard Czarnecki must apologize Civic Platform (PO) MEP Róża Thun for comparing her to Nazi collaborators, the so-called Szmalcowniks - the District Court in Warsaw ruled on Friday. The ruling is not yet legally binding.

Unlike Germany, Poland fulfills its obligation to spend 2 percent of GDP on NATO. We would gladly welcome in Poland the American soldiers stationed in Germany - US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Firefighters intervened 484 times after heavy storms that had passed over Poland on Wednesday and at night on Thursday. 2654 households were left without electricity and one firefighter got injured - the spokesman for the Polish Fire Service Paweł Frątczak said.

During Thursday's conference, at which parliament speaker Marek Kuchciński announced his resignation, a video was played showing Jarosław Kaczyński's words from 2011, when Donald Tusk was Poland's prime minister. "It's prime minister's right. Everyone has the right to be at home. We cannot expect from any prime minister to live in Warsaw," Kaczyński said at the time. On Thursday, he reassured that he stood by his words. However, at the same time he said that, during his time as PM, Tusk had taken 281 flights to his hometown of Gdańsk.

Poland wants to make sure a new European Commission stays tough on Russia and is concerned that some European Union countries are growing increasingly friendly towards its eastern neighbour, even as the Kremlin cracks down on dissent.

Poland's parliament speaker, Marek Kuchcinski, said on Thursday he would resign after it was revealed that he used government aircraft for private trips by family members.

Parliamentary elections will be held on October 13. Officially, the campaigns begin when the information is published in the Journal of Laws. Unofficially, however, the campaigning is already under way.

Protesters gathered in Warsaw on Wednesday (August 7) demanding the resignation of Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski after a series of anti-gay rhetoric.

A verifying procedure has been launched regarding Marshal Kuchciński's flights - Mirosława Chyr from District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw said on Monday. The investigators are verifying information contained in a written notification regarding suspicion of an offense.

The Regional Court in Gliwice on Wednesday disbanded the nationalist association Pride and Modernity. Its members were participating in the so-called Hitler's birthday party that was infiltrated and filmed by TVN "Superwizjer" journalists.

We were expecting publication of the full details of Marshal Marek Kuchciński's flights, but the information released raises as many questions as it answers. The destinations and events the Marshal have been revealed, but not the names and functions of the people who travelled with him.

A stork, abandoned by his parents, has found a new home with Polish farmers in the northern town of Kamienica.

The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) party has changed its name from SLD to Lewica (The Left) - the spokesperson for the party, Anna-Maria Żukowska informed on Tuesday after the national convention of the alliance.

Brunon Kwiecień has died - the spokeswoman for the General Director of the Prison Service, lieutenant-colonel Elżbieta Krakowska. The man was found dead on his bed in his cell. "A post-mortem will help to determine the cause of death," she added. A few years ago, Kwiecień was sentenced for preparing an attack on the Polish Sejm.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has signed the decision to hold the parliamentary elections on the 13th of October, 2019 - the president's spokesman Błażej Spychalski informed on Tuesday evening.

The Centre for the Monitoring of Racist and Xenophobic Behaviours submitted a notice to the prosecutor on the suspicion that a crime had been committed by Archbishop Jędraszewski. In question are his words on the "rainbow disease", spoken during a mass he conducted in honour of the 75th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising.

Four parachuters got blown away by the wind and fell into the Baltic Sea near Kołobrzeg (West Pomeranian Voivodeship). Two women were pronounced dead after an unsuccesful resuscitation attempts.

Belgian cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht has died due to injuries sustained in the tragic accident during the third stage of Tour de Pologne. He was 22 years old.

The police have so far identified 135 people suspected of committing crimes or misdemeanor during the Equality March in Białystok - the spokesperson for the Podlasie Police Tomasz Krupa informed on Monday. The prosecutor's office has launched several inquries into July's incidents.

I've adopted a model of work focused not only on operating strictly within the Sejm building, but also across the country and abroad. I'm aware that I took a lot of flights, but it was all due to the model of work that I adopted - the Marshal of the Sejm Marek Kuchciński said on Monday.

When he was a child, Arkadiusz Sokół from southern Poland dreamed of joining the police. Now a district police officer in the town of Grodków close to the Czech border, he shows his passion for his profession by collecting model police vehicles.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Friday he prefers October 13 for the next parliamentary election which the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is expected to win again thanks to generous social programmes and strong economic growth.

The elections to the European Parliament held on May 26, 2019, have been declared valid - the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The court did not find any irregularities that would affect the final results of the election.

Poland's foreign ministry said on Friday that Russia bears full responsibility for the collapse of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), after the United States formally withdrew from the landmark 1987 pact.

The special bill on Westerplatte has been signed by the President, despite protests by many circles and parliamentary opposition. According the new law, the state would take over the ownership of parts of land and hand it to the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, for it to build an outdoor exhibition.

Poland is under siege from a "rainbow plague" of gay rights campaigners, the archbishop of Kraków, Marek Jędraszewski said on Thursday (August 1) comparing it to Poland's former Communist rulers.

The Regional Court in Włocławek has decided to place the mother of the 3-year-old Nikodem and her partner under arrest. The man has been accused of murdering the boy with extreme cruelty, the woman - of being an accomplice.

Germany and Poland must not allow differences to divide the two nations, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday (August 1) as he attended ceremonies marking the Warsaw Uprising anniversary.