The Institute of National Remembrance sent an indictment to the District Court in Katowice on Tuesday against the former member of the Motorized Reserves of the Citizens' Militia (ZOMO) special platoon, Roman S. The man has been charged with shooting at protesting miners from "Wujek" coal mine in Katowice in December 1981.

Poland's foreign minister praised the "non-confrontational" style of the EU's nominee to head the next European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and signalled that he looked forward to improved ties between Warsaw and Brussels on her watch.

The Human Rights Commissioner (RPO) has launched an inquiry ex officio into the order forcing prosecutor Mariusz Krasoń to relocate from the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Kraków to a local prosecutor's office in Wrocław. According to the ombudsman, the decision to relocate Krasoń is seen as a method of persecution.

President Andrzej Duda has signed the amended Teachers' Charter, guaranteeing pay rise for teachers starting September 1 and one-time bonuses for trainee teachers, into law. The legislation also introduces a minimum 300-zloty bonus for educators.

What degrees earn graduates the most money coming out of school? If you create a patriotic video game, the Polish government might just help you out. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Poland is open to investment from China, the country's foreign minister said on Monday, even as relations have faltered between the two countries over the role of Chinese technology firms in 5G and state infrastructure projects.

The District Prosecutor's Office in Katowice on Monday took over the investigation into the Saturday's gas explosion in a residential building in Bytom, that killed a woman and her two daughters. All residents have been evacuated from the building, but the first group are likely to return to their homes on Tuesday.

When Novak Djokovic stood with hand on hip midway through the second-set tiebreak, glaring down at young Polish upstart Hubert Hurkacz, he could scarcely believe the drama unfolding before his eyes in his third-round Wimbledon showdown on Friday.

A British court has jailed eight leaders of a trafficking ring that enslaved hundreds of Polish victims in the largest modern slavery prosecution of its kind, authorities said on Friday.

The District Court in Warsaw decided on Friday to re-open the trial against Kajetan P. suspected of a brutal murder of a woman in Warsaw. Further evidence needs to be examined in this trial - plenipotentiary of the auxiliary prosecutors Rafał Carko said.

Polish President Andrzej Duda scolded the European Union on Friday for delaying accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, days after the EU's current eastern European members lost out in a carve-up of its top jobs.

In regard to the debate over Westerplatte, the mayor of Gdańsk Aleksandra Dulkiewicz will be treated as a partner and her voice will be heard - the chief of prime minister's office Michał Dworczyk reassured on Friday. In his view, people who are trying to "cause turmoil" over the special law (on Westerplatte) are driven by politicial interest.

Unemployment is at a record low in Poland and there are more foreigners working here. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Law and Justice (PiS) chairman Jarosław Kaczyński ordered the party MPs not to participate in lobby events or meetings that could be presumed as such, with the exception of events meeting the criteria outlined in the lobbying act.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday (July 4) that if the European Union waited too long to embrace countries in the Western Balkans other powers would fill the vacuum.

The outgoing chairman of European Union national leaders on Thursday urged the European Parliament to approve Germany's Ursula von der Leyen as the next head of the bloc's executive after some in the assembly criticised her nomination.

Judges who have opposed the "political hijacking" of Poland's judiciary are suffering unfair discrimination, human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday, adding to European Union pressure on the ruling nationalists.

Eastern European states have ended up empty-handed in the EU top jobs bonanza after they expended all their political capital in successfully blocking Dutch Socialist Frans Timmermans from becoming president of the executive European Commission.

Poland's former prime minister Ewa Kopacz has been chosen the Vice-President of the European Parliament. 461 MEPs voted in favour of her candidacy.

PKN Orlen has filed a formal application for the European Commission’s approval of its proposed acquisition of Lotos Group. The completion of the process would result in a single strong internally integrated entity with international potential, whose position in the oil supply market would be even more prominent.

Polish State Fire Service (PSP) carried out 2.349 interventions on Tuesday, of which 598 were fire-related - said the spokesperson for the Chief Commandant of the State Fire Service, Senior Brigadier Paweł Frątczak. None of the 254 scout camps were evacuated - he added.

The European Parliament elected Italian socialist lawmaker David Sassoli on Wednesday as its speaker for the next 2-1/2 years, completing the round of appointments for the bloc's top jobs after EU elections in May.

EU leaders tapped acting Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell to serve as the next top diplomat for the European Union in Brussels on Tuesday (July 2).

German polyglot Ursula von der Leyen's was nominated as European Commission chief on Tuesday (July 2) and, if confirmed by the European Parliament, would the first woman to lead the Commission.

European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to name France's Christine Lagarde as the new head of the European Central Bank and sealed a deal on filling the EU's other top four jobs after marathon talks that have exposed deep divisions in the bloc.

European Council President Donald Tusk praised an agreement to assign two senior EU jobs on Tuesday to women for the first time.

We've achieved the goals we had set before this European Council summit - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a press conference on Tuesday in Brussels after the summit had come to an end.

Belgian liberal Charles Michel, who was elected by EU leaders on Tuesday as the next chair of EU summits, does not believe in hanging around.

EU's Donald Tusk said EU summit has agreed on next leadership of bloc's institutions. Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said Ursula von der Leyen, German defense minister, has been proposed as the new head of the European Commission.

French President Emmanuel Macron sought to break a deadlock over the EU's top jobs on Tuesday by proposing France's Christine Lagarde, now head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to lead the European Central Bank (ECB), diplomatic sources said.