The U.S. State Department on Wednesday urged Poland to re-evaluate a draft law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany on its soil during World War 2.

Polish lawmakers approved draft legislation on Thursday penalising suggestions of any complicity by Poland in the Nazi Holocaust on its soil during World War Two, defying criticism by Israel and the United States.

Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, explained on TVN24 why Israel found the amended bill on the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) controversial. "In Israel, this bill is treated as something that may potentially enable the prosecution of journalists or even the very Holocaust survivors who share their stories," she said. She stressed that in her opinion, these regulations could cause "a much greater storm" in her homeland than in Poland.

Labour shortages are the top concern for Poland's monetary policy, the governor of the central bank said on Tuesday, adding he was worried whether the country could attract enough workers from neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus.

Israel's prime minister and Holocaust survivors on Sunday bridled at a draft Polish law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil.

“I interpreted Minister Zieliński’s words as an attempt at intimidating the authors of this programme,” Bertold Kittel, one of the authors of TVN’s Superwizjer feature on Polish neo-Nazis, said on TVN24’s Wstajesz i wiesz programme on Thursday. He was addressing the Deputy Minister’s claim that journalists had an “obligation to inform law enforcement agencies” about the results of their investigation.

Senator Jan Żaryn is demanding “civic denunciation” from journalists before they publish investigative materials. Meanwhile, the senator’s demands have no legal grounds, as confirmed by lawyers inquired by tvn24.pl and by an article in a trade journal for prosecutors made available by the National Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The Pride and Modernity Association registered a public collection for a person lawfully convicted of murder. It’s the same organisation whose leader organised a worship session for Adolf Hitler which was filmed by TVN’s Superwizjer journalists. The Ministry of Interior and Administration, which registered the public collection, claims it cannot stop it.

An “altar” in honour of Adolf Hitler, a burning swastika, “Sieg Heil!”. That’s what happens at Polish neo-Nazis’ meetings. Journalists of “Superwizjer” TVN managed to infiltrate this community. Footage made with a hidden camera shows the inner workings of the community.

“Organisations employing symbols and notions that glorify or even tolerate German Nazism, like Pride and Modernity (Duma i Nowoczesność), should be banned,” PM Mateusz Morawiecki told journalists on Tuesday.

The EU's justice commissioner is working on a proposal that could oblige member states such as Poland, which has clashed with Brussels over reforms to its courts, to pass tests on the independence of their judicial systems before receiving funding.

Police raided sites in seven German states and detained two people in Berlin on Wednesday on suspicion of links to a gang smuggling Syrians through Poland to Germany, a federal police spokesman said.

The European Union is not at war with Poland and is not set on sanctioning the country "come what may", European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday.

Germany and Poland said on Wednesday they would consider setting up a commission to explore Polish calls for reparations for German actions during World War Two.

Public support for Poland's ruling conservatives has risen while backing for the biggest opposition party fell as a recent government reshuffle helped ease voters' dissatisfaction with Warsaw's clashes with the EU, an opinion poll showed.

Hundreds of Poles gathered in front of the parliament building in Warsaw on Saturday evening to protest against proposals for tight restrictions on abortion debated by lawmakers this week.

Poland will comply with an EU court order to stop cutting trees in Bialowieza forest, except where public safety has to be ensured, its new environment minister said on Friday - words certain to disappoint campaigners who want logging to end there.

Poland's parliament has started work on a new abortion law, in the conservative government second bid to tighten rules that are already among Europe's toughest.

Warsaw's Chopin Airport was re-opened on Wednesday at around 2230 GMT/1730 ET following a four-hour closure after an aircraft of Polish national carrier LOT with 63 people on board made an emergency landing on its belly due to its wheels' failure.

As a journalist, he challenged the legality of the re-election of Donald Tusk as head of the European Council. Half a year later he became deputy minister of foreign affairs for legal and treaty matters. His publications were quoted by Witold Waszczykowski as an example of a legal expert opinion supporting the claim that there were irregularities in the vote taken in Brussels on 9 March 2016. On Tuesday, Jacek Czaputowicz became minister of foreign affairs in the government of Mateusz Morawiecki.

Poland's new Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki fired several senior ministers and visited Brussels on Tuesday in an effort to patch up relations with the European Union, but said he would not unwind the country's most-contested judicial reforms.

Poland's ruling conservatives fired several senior government ministers on Tuesday in an apparent move to improve relations with the European Union strained over accusations that Warsaw is subverting rule of law standards.

President of the Republic of Poland Mr. Andrzej Duda has sent an occasional telegram to the President of the United States of America Mr. Donald Trump to mark the Centenary of President Woodrow Wilson’s Plan for Peace “The Fourteen Points” .

Poland's new prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, will reshuffle the two-year-old conservative government on Tuesday before flying to Brussels to discuss controversial judicial reforms.

The matter of a “disagreement” between Warsaw and the European Commission on judicial reforms in Poland was only a minor topic during Wednesday consultations of Polish and Hungarian prime ministers – Poland’s deputy Foreign Minister Konrad Szymański said on Wednesday.

The European Union's migration policy has failed, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday, as he and his Polish counterpart demanded a bigger say in the bloc's future.

Poland's Kamil Stoch is on course to retain his Four Hills title after overcoming Richard Freitag for the second leg in a row to triumph at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Monday.

Polish climbers hope to pull off a mountaineering first with a wintertime ascent of the world's second highest peak, K2, the only one of the 14 exceeding 8,000 meters (26,200 ft) not to have been conquered at the most testing time of the year.

The U.N. independent expert on the independence of judges and lawyers criticised Poland on Friday for legal reforms that have already attracted unprecedented censure from the European Union, dubbing them a serious breach of the rule of law.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said that Hungary sees a strong Poland as a vital component of a central European caucus within the European Union, and so will block any action to suspend Poland's voting rights in the EU.