A fleet of bikers dressed as Santa Claus visited sick children in hospital in the eastern Polish city of Lublin on Sunday as the city's annual Christmas Festival got into gear.

After nine hours, including breaks, the VAT fraud investigative commission finished the hearing of Jacek Rostowski who was the finance minister in the Civic Platform - Polish People's Party coalition government between 2007-2013. "After Mr Rostowski's testimony we cannot rule out further subpoenas," said the chair of the commission, Law and Justice's MP Marcin Horała, after the hearing was completed.

The scandal in Poland's Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) continues, however, depending on which side of the you ask, you will receive a different answer. The ruling party claims, the true scandal was back in 2014, when Civic Platform was in power. The now biggest opposition party, in turn, claims that Law and Justice are trying to turn the attention away from the corruption scandal with KNF's former chief, Marek Chrzanowski in its centre.

Poles don't want to travel abroad to work anymore. According to CBOS (Public Opinion Research Centre) survey 86 percert of those asked were not interested in working outside Poland. Another round of wage increase for teachers coming up in 2019. Court administration employees also demand raises and so they lauched a protest. Additional 70 zlotys before tax for the pensioners from March 2019 on. Business news from Poland with Mateusz Walczak.

Words spoken by the Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro about me being brutally attacked because "the KNF had been emboldening criminals" are outrageous, as they clearly suggest that not only myself but any victim of any crime is guilty of being victimised, said the former deputy chief of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority Wojciech Kwaśniak, in an interview for "Gazeta Wyborcza". Comment made by Mr Ziobro in the state-owned public television stirred outrage among the politicians. While the opposition members evoked a storm of criticism, the Law and Justice representatives were trying to avoid answering difficult questions.

EU leaders will not renegotiate Britain's Brexit deal, including the Irish border "backstop", their chairman Donald Tusk said on Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May put off a parliamentary vote on a package that was facing heavy defeat.

Taxing the extraction of fossil fuels could help pay for the growing costs of damage from harsher storms, wildfires, floods and rising seas, while providing a stronger incentive to wean the world off carbon-heavy energy, green groups said on Monday.

Actor and director Andrzej Seweryn is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his artistic career. He has played hundreds of fantastic roles and is considered one of Poland's finest theatre actors. He starred in over 50 movies and found success not only in Poland but also in Germany and France. Andrzej Seweryn received many accolades for his work, including the award for best actor at the Gdynia Film Festival.

U.N. members on Monday adopted a deal aimed at improving the way world copes with rising migration, but almost 30 countries stayed away from the ceremony in Morocco. Apart from the United States, the list of countries that opted out from the pact includes Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and Bulgaria.

Eighty tonnes of heavy explosives are now in the hands of the Central Bureau of Police Investigations. The operation included officers from Poland, Germany, France and Holland and the prosecutors will question 80 people. An international gang was responsible for the cross-border smuggling. The police revealed that they have been working the organised group since 2012.

Protestors disturbed a U.S.-sponsored event promoting fossil fuels on the sidelines of U.N. climate change talks on Monday, saying attempts to rebrand coal as a potentially "clean" energy source were misleading.

More than one in three European Jews have considered emigrating over the past five years because they no longer feel safe amid a surge in anti-Semitism, a European Union study showed on Monday.

Greenpeace activists on Sunday evening projected messages calling on politicians to take action on climate change onto the venue of the COP24 U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland. The slogans: "politicians talk, leaders act," and "no hope without climate action," were projected on the roof of the Spodek arena, where government officials and minister are meant to come up with a rule book to reduce emissions as agreed in the Paris Agreement in 2015. Greenpeace is calling for commitment to strengthen national climate plans in line with the 1.5 degrees limit by 2020, a strong rule book that supports action on the ground and "scaled-up and predictable finance and support for poor and vulnerable countries," the environmental organisation said in its news release.

Five out of seven people suspected of irregularities in the financial watchdog's (KNF) supervision of SKOK Wołomin credit union, including the former KNF chief Andrzej J., have been released on bail and taken under police supervision. "The prosecutor has decided to use preventive measures against five suspects," Marcin Lorenc from the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Szczecin has said. "The measures are of a freedom nature namely an injunction on contacting other suspects, bail and police supervision," added Mr Lorenc.

About two thousand demonstrators took to the streets of Katowice on Saturday, after a week of United Nations-sponsored climate change talks, to demand an agreement that will prevent temperatures rising by more than 1.5 C.

Half-way through crucial talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share out the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to pare down a sprawling text.

Poland's deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, said on Saturday he was in contact with the authorities over reports from campaign groups that at least 12 to 14 activists were refused entry to the country or deported while on their way to a U.N. climate change conference in Katowice.

BankTrack and Urgewald, non-governmental orgainisations (NGOs), attending the U.N. climate talks in Katowice, Poland on Wednesday published results of their research into banks and investors financing development of the coal industry around the world.

Members of a U.N. climate change group staged a performance to denounce the rise of "macho fascism" in international politics at the U.N. Climate Conference in Katowice.

Anti-terrorist division from Warsaw have posted a special video. The officers have joined the "Noble Gift" charity in the way they do best.

Half-naked, without jackets and trousers - this how they wanted to reach the top of human stupidity. Rescuers from the Karkonosze division of the Mountain Voluntary Search and Rescue had to evacuate seven people from the Śnieżka mountain. The foolish tourists attempted to summit the highest peak of the Karkonosze Mountains, wearing not much more than shorts, T-shirts and shoes.

The Customs and Tax Officers from Szczecin have prevented some 47 tonnes of waste materials to be illegally imported to Poland from Germany, the National revenue Administration informed. Two shipments from Poland's Western neighbouring country were full of demolition rubble, including construction waste, broken tiles, reenforced concrete and plastic foil. The cargo lacked proper documentation and import license.

Winning the absolute majority in the elections is a difficult task, especially in Poland where in the ongoing dispute, one side - us - respects the rules of democracy and the rule of law and the other does not, Law and Justice's leader Jarosław Kaczyński said on Friday.

The European Union's largest coking coal producer, Poland's JSW could increase output by between 2.5 and 3 million tonnes per year by acquiring assets, far exceeding its current plan to grow production to 18 million tonnes by 2030 from roughly 15 million now.

Catholic pilgrims travelling from the Vatican in the Polish town of Imielin arrived on Thursday to hold a protest against climate change.

Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise nearly 3 percent this year due to continued fossil fuel use, a report published by scientists on Wednesday said, dashing hopes that an increase in 2017 was temporary after two years of slowdown.

A bus carrying 51 passengers has crashed on the S3 highway near Sucha Górna in Lower Silesia. According to the fire department, 1 person died and 19 got injured. Rescue services from the region are arriving at the scene. "The bus was carrying disabled people," said Piotr Woźniakiewicz from the State Fire Service. As Krzysztof Zaporowski from Lower Silesian police said on Thursday evening, the accident occured at about 9 p.m. "The bus skidded during braking, fell out of the road and landed in a ditch. "There are 5 people with severe injuries and 37 are being taken care of by paramedics," he added. The bus passengers were returning from the Wrocław Christmas market to the town of Pszczew. The vehicle fell on the side just before the roundabout on S3 highway.

Former President of Poland must apologise to Jarosław Kaczyński, the District Court in Gdańsk ruled on Thursday. Law and Justice chairman has sued Wałęsa for a violation of personal rights. The case pertains, among other things, the comment made by the former president, blaming Kaczyński for the Smoleńsk catastrophy. The ruling is not yet legally binding.

"First of all, it’s extremely dangerous and not only for Ukraine, but definitely for the regional security, European security and maybe global security", said the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko in an exclusive interview for TVN24 BIS reporter Michał Sznajder. Mr Poroshenko was asked for a comment on the recent incident at the Kerch Strait, where the Russian Navy seized Ukrainian ships and detained Ukrainian sailors. "It was a brutal violation of the international law, brutal violation of our sovereignty and, de facto, it is an occupation of the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov," said Petro Poroshenko.

As countries debate a "rule book" at the U.N. climate conference in Poland, the least developed countries have asked for a focus on finance to help combat the effects of climate change.