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Israel’s ambassador to Poland claims that the Institute of National Remembrance bill may be used to prosecute Holocaust survivors

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.

Reporter responds to Deputy Minister: the state has all the means of surveillance

“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.

EU mulls new link between budget, civic rights

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.

"We are not at war with Poland"

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.

Poll: huge support for Poland's ruling conservatives

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.

Plane makes emergency landing at Warsaw airport

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.

Former pacifist, expert in diplomacy, PiS supporter. Poland's new minister of foreign affairs

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.