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Harvest season in full swing for pine cone botanists

It's a dream job, they say. They add, however, that you need to be someone that keeps their cool in all situations. That's because working in the tree tops isn't for everyone. Right now is the best time of the year for pine cone botanists.

Former minister Macierewicz's driver didn't have proper qualifications

The driver for former defense minister Antoni Macierewicz, on the day when returning from Toruń and had an accident, didn't have the proper qualifications to drive a privileged, government vehicle. According to the website onet.pl, the driver received the qualifications 12 days after the accident.

European Commission's Timmermans meets hostile reception in Hungary

Local media and several unidentified people "intimidated" the lead candidate for the main left-leaning grouping in the European Parliament when he visited Hungary last week to campaign for the upcoming European elections, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported on Friday.

Neighbours made her life a living hell. Family sentenced for stalking

The trial of a family accused of stalking has come to somewhat of a conclusion. The woman who was stalked is under police protection because the family that lives next door made her life a living hell. The stalkers harassed, threatened and threw firecrackers at their neighbour. They even took her to court more than 200 times, over a period of six years. The mother and her two adult children were sentenced to jail, but with a suspended sentence. Neither party being happy with the verdict, both sides intend to appeal.

Law and Justice defends Zbigniew Ziobro in the vote of confidence in the Sejm

There was a vote of confidence on Wednesday night in the Sejm for the Minister of Justice and the Public Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro. "Mr Giertych is making fools out of you," he told the opposition, speaking about the attorney for the Austrian businessman, Gerald Birgfellner. But in a debate for the vote of confidence, it was two towers that came to the foreground.

PiS chairman accuses "Gazeta Wyborcza" and opposition MPs of slander

Trying to turn the tables, the chairman of Law and Justice has filed a complaint against Civic Platform MPs and journalists from "Gazeta Wyborcza", accusing them of slander. All after the bombshell reports from the media and the statements from the opposition regarding the planned skyscrapers o Srebrna street.

Government ministers among Law and Justice's candidates for European Parliament

Ministers, currently in office, want to move from Warsaw to Brussels. There are also two spokespersons of the government and the party. Along with those placed at the top of the Law and Justice's ballots for the European elections. The party leadership has put forward its best candidates for the spring election to the European Parliament.

Putin: We'll target USA if Washington deploys missiles in Europe

Russia will respond to any deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe by targeting not only the countries where those missiles are stationed, but the United States itself, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday. In his annual address to Federal Assembly Putin said Russia was not seeking confrontation and would not take the first step to deploy missiles in response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. But he said that Russia's reaction to any deployment would be resolute and that U.S. policy-makers should calculate the risks before taking any steps.

The southern ring road in Warsaw is taking shape

Its construction is to cost 2,5 billion zlotys and it will be completed by August of next year. Warsaw's southern ring road is taking shape. To enter Warsaw from the east we will have to first take the flyover above the Masovian landscape park.

Controversial logging is underway to build a canal on the Vistula Spit

The clearcutting of trees near the planned canal on the Vistula Spit is underway. The Voivode of Pomerania has issued a building permit to construct the canal and machines are working day and night. All this, despite a pending appeal against the decision, the opposition of ecologists and reservations of the European Commission. Since 2006, the canal has been a flagship project of Law and Justice and is meant to allow for Polish ships to dock in the town of Elbląg, without sailing through Russian waters.

Gerald Birgfellner claims prosecutor tried to make him retract his statement on Kaczyński

There are new details regarding the Srebrna company and the twin towers scandal. "Gazeta Wyborcza" has published a copy of the withdrawal receipt for 50,000 zlotys, which the Austrian businessman claims he paid to a Kaczyński foundation board member, at the Law and Justice headquarters. According to Birgfellner's testimony, he was persuaded by Jarosław Kaczyński to hand over the money. According to "Gazeta Wyborcza", investigators attempted to convince Birgfellner to retract his statement, leading some to question whether there can truly be an independent investigation.