The trial in the case of "Hitler's birthday party" has begun. Six people are accused of participation in the 2017 event. It was organised by the Pride and Modernity association and was infiltrated by journalists from TVN's "Superwizjer" programme.

The First President of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Gersdorf, on Monday in Sofia, expressed her opinion regarding the situation of the Polish justice system. Poland's Chief Justice was invited to Bulgarian capital by the President of the Supreme Court of Cassation, Lozan Panov.

A grain field was left scorched in Dusina, western Poland after a fire broke out on Monday (July 1).

Police officers in Wałbrzych detained a 26-year-old man who was wanted by the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for, among other things, robbing a jewellery store in Germany. He was stopped for jaywalking.

The 45-year-old father of the murdered 9-month-old Blanka from Olecko was released from custody on Monday. The prosecutor's office in Suwałki refused to provide any more details regarding the case.

Three miners died after a severe tremor in Murcki Staszic coal mine in Katowice. One of them was found unconscious but died shortly after. Six other miners were taken to hospitals - Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG) informed on Monday.

Just like back then, today we are also ready to face many challenges together and to safeguard the values of independence, unity and solidarity - Presidents of Poland and Lithuania, Andrzej Duda and Dalia Grybauskaite respectively, wrote in a joint statement marking the 450th anniversary of the signing of the Union of Lublin, which led to the creation of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans has emerged as the favourite to be named the EU's next chief executive, diplomats and officials said on Sunday ahead of a summit in Brussels, but faces resistance from eastern European countries. Nevertheless, the EU leaders failed on Monday to find a consenus on on who should get the bloc's top jobs.

A teenager started her summer holidays by campaigning in front of Poland's parliament on Friday in a bid to get politicians to act on climate change before an election later this year.

President Andrzej Duda referred the draft amendment of Criminal Code to the Constitutional Tribunal - the Chancellery of the President (KPRP) informed on Friday. According to the chancellery's statement, the procedure under which the amendment is proceeded raises serious concerns, regarding adhering to constitutional standards of legislative process.

Nearly one thousand people got poisoned by designer drugs since the beginning of the year. The data comes from a report by the Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (GIS) that will be published on Tuesday next week.

Poland's government needs to do more to preserve judicial independence and avoid "undermining public confidence in it," the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights said in a report published on Friday.

The body of the second teenager who went missing was found in the Gdańsk Bay nearby the Brzeźno pier. Two boys, aged 16 and 17, drowned while swimming in the sea. One of them died after being taken to a hospital, the body of the other was found in the water.

Bartłomiej M. has been released on bail - Anna Czajczyk from district Prison Service in Kraków. The former spokesman of the ministry of defense has left the remand centre in Tarnów.

A window in a large and heavy frame fell off the construction site of a skyscraper next to Warsaw's Rotunda. One person got injured and a car got damaged. The police are determining the circumstances of the accident.

Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) will extend its child benefit programme from Monday, in a move critics say is a clear attempt to buy national election votes that will also divert much-needed investment from public services.

Incoherent, inconsequential, reaching outside the scope of EU treaties, boils down to protecting pathologies of the Polish justice system - said justice minister and prosecutor general Zbigniew Ziobro, commenting on ECJ advocate general's opinion regarding independence of Polish judiciary.

An adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday that a supreme court reform in Poland could undermine the independence of its judiciary, adding pressure on the Warsaw government to row back on changes that EU authorities say threaten the rule of law.

Since the beginning of vacation period, 47 deadly accidents took place in Poland - according to an interactive map published on Wednesday by Polish police. 52 people lost their lives in these accidents.

US and Polish military officials signed a cyberspace defense cooperation agreement on Wednesday in Warsaw.

Polish Senate rejected proposed changes and voted in favour of the newly amended Teachers' Charter that secures pay rise for teachers starting from September 1, as well as one-time bonuses for trainee teachers. The legislation also sets up 300-zloty minimum bonus for educators.

Old-fashioned minibuses and East German-made Trabants now drive once more on the roads of the Polish capital as guides take visitors through the highs and lows of life in the communist-era Polish People's Republic (PRL).

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal (TK) on Wednesday deemed the article of the Misdemeanour Code assuming punishment for premeditated and unjustified refusal of service as unconstitutional. In 2017, a printer from Łódź refused to make posters for an LGBT foundation because of his religious beliefs, for which he was sentenced by a court of first instance. In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling by the local court and later on rejected Poland's justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's appeal against the decision. The minister then decided to turn to the Constitutional Court.

Polish power demand hit a new record for a summer morning of about 24.14 gigawatts (GW) on Wednesday amid a heatwave, grid operator PSE said, adding that the system was stable and it did not expect problems meeting consumption in coming days.

No personal income tax for those 26 and under. The law will come into force on the 1st of August. This will apply to young people employed both on permanent and so-called junk contracts. This is the latest effort to curb young Poles from emigrating abroad.

The heatwave is back in Poland. Temperatures of 30 degree Celsius are the expected daytime lows, according to weather experts. The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management has issued heat warnings for large parts of the country, while doctors are cautioning residents to on alert for symptoms of heat stroke.

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage proposed Gdańsk city officials to join the ranks of the honourable committee for the construction of the Westerplatte Museum; the city would like to co-create and co-run the museum, offering land for its construction - this is the result of the meeting between deputy culture minister Jarosław Sellin and the mayor of Gdańsk Aleksandra Dulkiewicz.

Two 13-year-old female patients of the Voivodeship Psychiatric Hospital in Gdańsk were sexually abused. A 37-year-old man, also a patient of the hospital was detained and charged. In early June, in the same facility, a 26-year-old patient raped a 15-year-old girl.

The seemingly unlikely idea of Tusk switching from the European Council to the Commission has been mentioned by some EU diplomats - "Politico" wrote on Tuesday.

Five people drowned in Poland Monday - the Government Centre for Security (RCB) informed in its daily report published on Tuesday.