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.

The Gdańsk University of Technology gets an A for innovation. They came up with a new take on ecological single-use tableware. Why is it so special? It's made of a combination of biodegradable material and so could replace plastics that damage the environment.

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.

Around 300 far right activists marched in the eastern Polish town of Hajnowka on Saturday (February 23) to commemorate the 'Cursed Soldiers', a group of militants revered as patriots by some and seen as murderers by others.

Poland's nationalist ruling party pledged on Saturday to increase public spending by up to $10 billion a year, raising child subsidies, state pensions and transport infrastructure as part of a campaign ahead of this year's parliamentary election.

Magistrates and members of the public protested in Bucharest on Friday joining unprecedented protests across the country against changes in judicial legislation that have raised alarm bells over the rule of law.

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.

A foreign language film has never won the movie industry's most prestigious honor, the best picture Oscar. That may be about to change, if Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's critically-acclaimed "Roma" scores the big win on Sunday.

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.

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.

Thousands of Slovaks rallied to mark the first anniversary of the killing of an investigative reporter and his fiancee on Thursday and to protest what they see as a lack of government action against the sleaze he wrote about.

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.

Pope Francis met members of Polish NGO "Have No Fear" on Wednesday and kissed the hand of the organisation's leader and sexual abuse victim.

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.

The Baltic Pipe Project is set to reduce Poland's gas dependence on Russia, analysts said recently.

A Polish charity helping victims of child abuse committed by Catholic priests accused 24 bishops on Thursday of concealing perpetrators of sexual molestation of minors.

A statue of a priest who was leading figure in the movement that toppled Communism in Poland was removed by protesters, who accused the Catholic Church of neglecting accusations that he sexually abused minors.

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.

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it had discovered cyber attacks directed at democratic institutions, think tanks and non-profit organizations in Europe and would offer a cyber security service to several countries to close security gaps.

The average wage in Poland is 4,932 zlotys, when we're looking at data from companies employing nine or more. At the same, almost 40 percent of those surveyed expressed their concern with wages on the labour market. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

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.

Civic Platform's MP Krzysztof Brejza claims that Antoni Macierewicz has revealed confidential military information. Brezja notified the prosecutor after he received confirmation from the ministry of defence that the information was indeed top secret and shouldn't be revealed to the public. He quoted statements that had previously been made by Macierewicz.

In Warsaw the LGBT+ declaration has been signed. The Mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski and representatives of the LGBT organisations have all signed on to combat discrimination.

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.

Legislation to make public the salary details of Polish central bank employees will damage the central bank, a bank policy-maker told Reuters.

Washington's ambassador to Warsaw on Wednesday called on Israel to apologise to Poland in a row between the two countries over the Holocaust, after Israel's acting foreign minister said "many Poles" had collaborated with the Nazis.

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.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk commemorated on Tuesday protesters killed during 2013-2014 uprising as his visit to Ukraine coincided with the fifth anniversary of the deadliest days of the protest.

Polish and Israeli relations are under serious pressure. The Israeli foreign minister said that "Poles have weaned anti-Semitism along with their mothers' milk". In protest, the Polish delegation will not be attending the Visegrad Four (V4) summit in Jerusalem. After these words, Polish and Israeli dialogue and diplomacy don't seem to have much in common.

The "Polonez for Equality" at a high school dance. The matriculation students from the Bednarska high school in Warsaw prepared two dances. The traditional style and the one for single sex pairs, to show their support for people from the LGBT+ community.