European Commission's concerns regarding the rule of law in Poland are growing, said the Vice President of the EC, Frans Timmermans at a press conference after Poland's EU treaty Article 7 procedure hearing. He added that in regard to the issue of the Supreme Court, the commission will take all available measures.

Poles are more frequently choosing to treat themselves in the private health care sector, while a huge increase in the cost of building materials means higher prices for homes and flats in the future. Business news with Mateusz Walczak.

European commission Vice President, Frans Timmermans said behind closed doors during Poland's hearing at a European General Affairs Council that the situation in Polish judicial system has worsened, according to Polish Press Agency's (PAP) sources. Polish European affairs minister, Konrad Szymański, on the other hand, underscored that organisation of judicial systems is an exlusive competence of member-states.

Local residents in Suwałki did a double take as two different ceremonies took place to mark the same event. This time it was to mark the anniversary of Soviet aggression against Poland.

A British private equity firm has written to the Polish prime minister complaining about the energy minister’s refusal to back a project to open a coking coal mine, a move it said would create 2,000 jobs.

The monument of King Sigismund III Vasa in Warsaw had been wrapped in a T-shirt with the word "Constitution" on it. Activists from the Committee for the Defense of Democracy hung the shirt on the statue on Sunday during a demonstration in Warsaw. Several hundred people gathered for the protest. They carrieed the Polish and EU flags, and bore slogans like "Constittution" and "Free Courts".

17.09 | President Andrzej Duda has gone to Washington D.C. for a one-on-one meeting with President Donald Trump. The Polish delegation will also meet with the Vice President and the Secretary of State.

Poland's right-wing government has the chance to explain itself to its European Union peers on Tuesday for the second time in three months amid concern over changes to the judiciary that the EU fears could undermine its courts' independence.

Once again surveyed Poles expressed their support of the membership in the EU. A decided majority is for it, which makes the anti-European rhetoric of Polish officials, even more surprising. The prime minister has spoken of ramblings from abroad not being scary, and the president called it an imaginary community, from which there wasn't much benefit for Poland. These are only the most recent comments which have the opposition speaking of Law and Justice's plan to remove Poland from the EU.

A motion regarding a possible withdrawal of membership in the European Networks of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) has been added to the agenda of the session of the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS), informed the spokesperson for the KRS, Maciej Mitera. He added that the council will most likely vote on the motion on Friday.

Banks earned over 8 billion zlotys over past 6 months, despite very low interest rates. It's been 10 years since the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the CEO's and business experts are increasingly sure of a looming financial crisis. Business news with Mateusz Walczak.

A truly unique story about how the World War II immeasurably changed the fate of Poles and their descendants. In 1942, Maria Bajdan was deported with her parents to Soviet labour camps, from which she found her way to Iran and stayed there for the rest for her life. Her story has fascinated Narges Khargani, an Iranian documentary film director. Michał Sznajder met up with the director when she came to Poland, seking information for the movie she's making about Maria Bajdan.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis welcomed representatives of the 12 EU members between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas at the start of the third Three Seas summit in Bucharest in Tuesday.

The European Network of Judiciary Councils (ENCJ) decided to suspend the membership of the Polish National Council of the Judiciary (KRS).

During Tuesday's hearing in the Council of the European Union, within the Article 7 procedure, representatives of the Polish government will call upon other EU member-states to close this procedure, Polish Press Agency (PAP) has learned from Polish diplomats.

We belong to the EU and NATO, we are conscious and responsible members of the Euro-Atlantic sphere; we want Central Europe to be a well-developed, well-intergrated and safe part of the Euro-Atlantic world, Polish President Andrzej Duda in Bucharest on Monday.

A point system for vaccinations is an idea by activists from Wrocław, called "we vaccinate, we think". They want local governments to require them before children are enrolled in public nursery and preschools. The organisers of the initiative have prepared a draft bill and are collecting signatures for it to be taken up in the Sejm. In their opinion, new regulations mobilise more parents to vaccinate their children. As the amount of children not getting vaccinations is growing, diseases like measles are making a comeback.

If the elections were held in the coming days, 38 percent of voters would choose the coalition comprised of Law and Justice, Alliance and United Poland, according to the latest poll by Kantar Millward Brown for "Fakty" TVN and TVN24. Civic Platform would come second with 21 percent. Modern Party would secure third result with 7 percent, which is a change in comparison with the previous poll.

World of criminals and football come together. Hooligans from Wisła Kraków who are behind stadium brawls are not only responsible for dealing drugs and beatings, but also murder. They're an organised gang and have their own in the management of the club. Now, the club is trying to distance itself from the revelations made during the TVN's "Superwizjer" programme.

On Monday, the European Network of Juciciary Councils, which meets in Bucharest, is to decide over the membership of the Polish judiciary council (KRS). "I'm confident about the question of law, not so much about politics, however," the spokesperson for the KRS Maciej Mitera has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

A recording made during a voting by the National Council of the Judiciary on candidates for the Supreme Court has onlookers asking questions. The video shows judge Dagmara Pawełczyk-Woicka, a personal friend of Zbigniew Ziobro, who was appointed by him to president of Kraków's Regional Court, walking up to the minister of justice, just before she cast her voice. The voting was supposed to be secret ballot and many are now wondering whether or not she consulted her choices with the politician. The Deputy Minister of Justice, Patryk Jaki says everyone is overreacting, while the opposition maintains, the reforms to the judciary are a sham and that Law and Justice has judges on leashes.

On Wednesday, the European Commission will decide about taking Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union over the case of the new Supreme Court law, a source from the European Commission told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Law and Justice's local election campaign that continued in Szczecin. While there, the party's leader Jarosław Kaczyński said that history is written by winners and "we are the winners" and we must write history.

On Monday morning, President Andrzej Duda laid flowers at the Warsaw's Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East. The 17th of September marks the 79th anniversary of Soviet aggression against Poland.

On the coming Wednesday, the European Commission in Brussels will discuss the issues of the rule of law in Poland and infringement procedure regarding the new Supreme Court law, a high-ranking EU official has told the Polish Press Agency (PAP). The source also informed that Poland has sent its answer to the European Commission, within infringement procedure dialogue regarding the Supreme Court law.

Tourists visiting Tatra mountains in southern Poland are leaving lots of trash behind. The local national park has launched a new campaign to encourage people to make sure those beautiful areas remain as garbage-free as possible.

Kraków has voted to limit sales of alcohol in the main tourist centres in the city. It will be impossible to buy alcohol there between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

The government announced who will be in charge of making sure the Central Communications Port will be built. Mateusz Walczak has this and other business news.

A teacher in Głogów in western Poland struck a child in his face. Another student filmed the entire incident and uploaded it to the internet. The teacher has been suspended and the case has been referred to the prosecutor.

Judges and prosecutors under the watchful eye of the disciplinary spokesperson are in no doubt they're being pressured. Opposition politicians have come out in support claiming the methods of intimidation are typical of the communist Poland era.