Deputy prime minister and chief of agriculture ministry Henryk Kowalczyk released a statement regarding U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to build temporary silos along the border with Ukraine, including in Poland, that would help to export grain from the war-torn country. "President Biden's proposal is an interesting idea but it requires working out several details," Polish minister said on Facebook on Wednesday.

Inflation in May stood at 13.9% compared to May 2021, governmental agency Statistics Poland announced on Wednesday (June 15), adding that consumer prices in Poland in May increased by 1.7% compared to the previous month. Therefore, the official data has confirmed the number released in the flash estimate in late-May.

European Commission spokesperson Veerle Nuyts commented on Tuesday on Polish president's ratification of the amended bill on the Supreme Court, which is to dismantle the contested Disciplinary Chamber of said court. "We take note of the fact that the draft has been signed into law by the president of Poland. In the context of the Polish Recovery and Resilience Plan we will be carefully assessing the law against the milestones," Nuyts said.

Protesting farmers set up a cross of potted flowers in the middle of Piłsudski Square in Warsaw on Tuesday morning. "Flower producers are in a tragic situation, they can't sell their products," said Agrounia movement which organised the symbolic protest.

A tram driver from Wrocław saw a duck mom and her ducklings on the tracks and stopped the vehicle to help the waterbirds. "In a joint effort, the MPK (City Transport Company) crew managed to deal with the waddling crowd. The little ones had to be carried off the tracks, as the ducklings have too short legs to make it on their own," the company said.

Ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party members have been sending signals regarding potential postponement of local elections in Poland. Commenting on said rumours, president Andrzej Duda said he treated the news purely as "a media topic" and that no one had contacted him in that regard. He added, however, that the concurrent dates of local and parliamentary elections was "a rather difficult situation". PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński called the issue "a technical problem".

"On the occasion of Pride Month, we express our support for the efforts to raise public awareness of issues affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) community and other communities in Poland facing similar challenges," reads an open letter signed by 46 ambassadors and diplomats accredited in Poland.

"Poland supports Ukraine every day. We believe it's not only in Ukraine's interest to defend itself and keep its sovereignty, but it's also in our interest - of Poland and the whole free world," Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Friday at a Bucharest Nine summit held in the capital city of Romania.

Tekla Juniewicz celebrates her 116th birthday on Friday (June 10). She was born in Austro-Hungary in 1906, eight years before the outbreak of the First World War. That same year the construction of the Panama Canal was underway, the first plane flight was carried out in Europe, and Maria Skłodowska-Curie gave her first lecture at the Sorbonne. Currently, Tekla Juniewicz is the oldest living woman in Poland and the second living person in the world.

French Open champion Iga Świątek will skip next week's Berlin Open WTA 500 tournament due to a shoulder issue, but the world number one said on Friday that she hopes to be fully fit for Wimbledon starting later this month.

NATO forces conducted live-fire air defence exercises in Poland on Thursday (June 9) to test their readiness to respond to aircraft, drone and missile attacks.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday (June 10) that Poland has confirmed the country's first case of monkeypox.

In Thursday's vote, Poland's lower house of parliament rejected 23 out of 29 amendments to the bill on the Supreme Court, suggested by the upper house. Among the rejected provisions are all key amendments regarding revoking of rulings issued by the contested Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court. The bill will now be sent over to the president, who may either sign it into law, refuse to sign it, or aks the Constitutional Tribunal to issue an opinion.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution in a vote on Thursday (June 9) expressing concern with the fact that the EU Commission had approved Poland's National Recovery Plan on June 1. Among the main reasons for said concern, the MEPs mentioned "existing and continued breaches of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary" in Poland.

Poland's Monetary Policy Council has raised the main reference interest rate by 75 basis points again in order to mitigate the effects of galloping inflation. The reference rate will therefore increase from 5.25% to 6%, a level previously recorded in 2008.

A 35-year-old miner died in an accident in the Bogdanka coal mine in eastern Poland early on Wednesday, a police spokesperson said. A prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into the deadly accident.

Poland was ranked 22nd out of 27 European Union member states in the European Sovereignty Index, released on Wednesday by the European Council on Foreign Relations and Stiftung Mercator. "With the lowest overall scores of the EU’s five largest members, Poland performs especially poorly in technology, climate, migration, and health," the experts said in the report.

A refugee from Ukraine arrived in Warsaw together with her sister, but already after a few hours in the city she got lost. City Guard officers found her in the middle of the night in Bielany district. It turned out the woman suffered from dysmnesia.

The National Day of Silesian Uprisings has been added to the calendar of Polish public holidays. President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed a bill in that regard into law. The holiday is to be celebrated on June 20. As the Chancellery of the President informed earlier, it will not be a bank holiday.

A debate on Poland's National Recovery Plan was held in the European Parliament on Tuesday (June 7). In her speech, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that approval of the plan was "linked in particular to clear commitments by Poland on the independence of the judiciary". "Let me reassure you that no money will be disbursed, until these reforms are undertaken," EU executive chief added.

Three days after winning Roland Garros for the second time in her career, WTA leader Iga Świątek on Tuesday met with reporters in Polish city of Lublin.

A Polish court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from the country's Human Rights Ombudsman against oil company PKN Orlen's takeover of newspaper publisher Polska Press, the court said, confirming an earlier report by state-run news agency PAP.

"What we are doing together today will have very important consequences for the future generations. Never before have we had such a unique possibility to build Polish-American brotherhood," U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski said on Tuesday at a press conference in the Port of Gdynia. American destroyer USS Gravely has docked in this northern Polish city.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski signed an ordinance on Friday expanding the catalogue of information collected by medical personnel regarding patients by allergies, blood type and pregnancy among other things. The said change has been raising controversy for some time now, with the opposition and some NGOs sounding the alarm in fear that the government's aim is to introduce a "pregnancy register". "We're not creating any registers, but only extending the system of reporting based on European Commission recommendations. Only medics will have access to the data," Health Ministry spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz assured. Civic Platform chairman Donald Tusk stressed on Monday that "Polish women need care, not control".

The Maritime Office in Gdynia informed that the works aimed to renourish the beach in the Orłowo district have begun. The beach was destroyed by sea storms in winter this year. The cost of sand replenishment has been estimated at approximately 4.5 million zlotys.

A house in which Maria Skłodowska-Curie used to spend summers with her husband Pierre Curie has been purchased by Kulczyk Foundation. Built in the late 19th century, the house that once belonged to the Polish double Nobel Prize laureate, which has 120 square metres and is surrounded by a garden, has been placed on the French heritage sites list. Once the building has been renovated, it will host the House of Sisterhood, a place where exceptional women from across Europe will be meeting and working together.

Iga Świątek said she felt lucky when she won her first French Open title in 2020 but the world number one credits hard work for her second Grand Slam title on the Parisian clay.

A resident of the Mościce district in the city of Tarnów (Lesser Poland Voivodeship) called the police after his 9-year-old son had brought an object resembling a missile. It later turned out that it was indeed an unexploded ordnance from the WWII period.