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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.

Big changes in Polish government

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.

Shake-up in government "on Tuesday"

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.

UE Procedure against Poland on the fringe of Budapest talks

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.

Holder Stoch wins second leg at Four Hills

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 make historic winter conquest of K2

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.

Orban: Hungary will block any punitive EU action on Poland

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.

May tells Poland: your constitution is your own matter

British Prime Minister Theresa May gave Poland a rare dose of big power support on Thursday by saying that its constitution was its own affair, a sharply different tone to that of the European Union which has scolded Warsaw over judicial reforms.

Poland's new government won a vote of confidence

Poland's new government led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki won a vote of confidence in parliament just before midnight on Tuesday, voting records showed, opening the way for the Cabinet to start functioning.

US Department of State: free and independent media is a pillar of democracies

"We're tremendously concerned about the direction that Poland seems to be going in,” said the spokeswoman for the US Department of State Heather Nauert. “A free and independent media is a fundamental pillar of democracies," she said, commenting on the decision of the National Radio and Television Broadcasting Council concerning TVN24's reporting on the political crisis in December last year. The US Department of State has also issued a statement on the matter.