The European Union's top court said on Wednesday it had ordered Poland to pay a penalty of 1 million euros ($1.16 million) per day for not suspending the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court.

The European Commission has urged Poland to immediately provide evidence proving the lignite mine in Turów has ceased to operate, in line with a ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU. If Poland fails to deliver such evidence, the Commission will start issuing penalty payment demands on a regular basis, said Spokesperson for Climate Action and Energy at European Commission Tim McPhie. Poland's prime minister said that the country was unlikely to shut down the mine, as it would have too serious repercussions.

President Andrzej Duda officially appointed new cabinet ministers on Tuesday. Henryk Kowalczyk has has become deputy prime minister and minister of agriculture, Kamil Bortniczuk has taken over as sports and tourism minister, Anna Moskwa will head climate ministry, Grzegorz Puda is the new minister of development funds and regional policy, while Piotr Nowak - minister of development and technology.

Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński and Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak presented details of a draft legislation that would replace a series of old laws on Polish military, dating back to the Communist era. According to the officials, a minimum plan assumes Poland having 250,000 professional soldiers and 50,000 territorial army members.

Polish-American military drills took place in Drawsko-Pomorskie. Nearly 1,000 soldiers practiced defensive fire and counterattack elements, among other things.

Moldova bought a million cubic meters of natural gas from Poland on Monday in a trial purchase to diversify the country's energy supplies after talks with traditional supplier Russia failed to reach an agreement last week.

President Andrzej Duda will announce changes in the government on Tuesday, President's Chancellery said on Monday. "There will be some changes in the government, most likely this week, but I wouldn't call it a big reshuffle," PiS parliamentary club chief Ryszard Terlecki said earlier that day.

EU Commission spokesman Eric Mamer on Monday commented on Poland's prime minister's words about "third world war" he used in an interview for "Financial Times", dismissing his war rhetoric as unacceptable. PM Morawiecki also accused the EU of making demands with a "gun to our head".

German police said on Sunday they had stopped more than 50 far-right vigilantes armed with pepper spray, a bayonet, a machete and batons who were trying to patrol the Polish border to stop migrants from entering the country.

Poland will need to consider tighter COVID-19 restrictions if average daily cases exceed 7,000, the health minister was quoted as saying on Monday, as the government warned that infections were almost doubling each week. Minister Adam Niedzielski also informed about a rising number of Delta+ variant of the coronavirus.

Two Polish soldiers were taken to a hospital in Białystok on Sunday evening, Border Guard spokesperson Anna Michalska informed. She explained that the soldiers were injured when trying to prevent a group of migrants from forcing their way into Poland, in the area of Usnarz Górny. "The foreigners used sticks and threw stones at Border Guard officers and Polish Army soldiers. One of the soldiers was hit in the face with a branch, and another, also in the face, but with a stone," Michalska said. As a result, Poland's Defence Minister announced on Monday the country would increase the number of troops on its border with Belarus to around 10,000.

Poland has no problems with the rule of law, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, but some European Union countries do not understand the country's judicial reforms. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that EU countries need to deepen talks about where the 27-nation bloc should be heading to in order to mitigate and solve disputes such as the current row with Poland.

Migrants are still trying to enter Polish territory from Belarus. Medics at the Border (Medycy na Granicy) group on Friday helped a 24-year-old woman who had been roaming local forests for many days, without shoes and in wet clothes. "After examination, we've stated hypothermia and severely impaired consciousness," the medics said in a Facebook post.

Four people were killed and 18 injured in a storm that battered Poland with hurricane-force winds on Thursday night, authorities said, damaging properties and felling trees across western and central areas of the country.

Poland's "Solidarity" trade union held a rally in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) seat in Luxembourg on Friday. The demonstration was organised to protest against the CJEU rulings passed with regards to a lignite mine in Turów. For many months now, the mine and power plant have been a bone of contention between Polabd Czech Republic, with the latter demanding immediate closure of the facility due to environmental reasons.

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met the President of the French far-right National Rally party (formely known as the National Front), Marine Le Pen. TVN24 correspondent Maciej Sokołowski learned from the Len Pen's office that the meeting took place in Poland's EU representation seat in Brussels. The capital of Belgium hosted a two-day European Council summit on Thursday and Friday.

A part of an overpass in Koszalin collapsed on the street stretching below. A dash-cam recording shows the viaduct falling down right in front of approaching cars.

Poland's Border Guard said that 600 attempts of illegal border crossing had been recorded on Wednesday, and 19 migrants had been detained. Yesterday, the service also published a video showing a group of migrants in Usnarz Górny, forcing their way through the border into Poland.

Poland will not bow to European Union "blackmail" but will seek to solve ongoing disputes, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, as he arrived on Thursday to defend his nation before a meeting of fellow leaders in an escalating ideological battle.

Speaker of Poland's Senate, Tomasz Grodzki, and speaker of the Sejm, Elżbieta Witek, on Thursday took part in the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament of Council of Europe member states, held in Athens. When the Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matviyenko, started her speech, the Polish duo left the room. "It is an act of solidarity with countries whose territories are occupied by Russia," Polish Senate said in a tweet.

Canadian musician Bruce Xiaoyu Liu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Thursday.

Poland is planning to make third doses of the coronavirus vaccine available to all adults "over the next few weeks", Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday.

A 31-year-old man has been charged with offending religious feelings and damaging public property in an act of hooliganism, after he cut down a wooden roadside cross in Zielona Góra, Lubusz Police spokesperson Marcin Maludy informed on Wednesday.

The President of the European Parliament David Sassoli announced on Wednesday he had asked legal services to prepare a lawsuit against the European Commission for failing to use conditionality mechanism enforcing member states to uphold the rule of law.

Polish Border Guard said on Wednesday it has prevented 424 attempts of illegal crossing of the Polish-Belarusian border. Six people have been detained. The police is detaining more and more people transporting migrants. According to TVN24 reporter Konrad Borusiewicz, smugglers have already tried to move over 500 people.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Wednesday the country has been experiencing a "pandemic explosion", but added there was no question of lockdown at that time.

"Today, we've witnessed the PiS government crash against the wall. Probably none of the arguments presented in the debate by PiS government representatives convinced both the political factions and the EU member states," Poland former prime minister and former chief of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said at a press conference in the Sejm on Tuesday.

During his visit to Vilnius, President Andrzej Duda said the European Commission was interfering in internal matters of its members, posing a "serious danger" to the states. His Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nauseda said rule of law issues should not be tied to EU funding and offered to mediate between Poland and the European Commission.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen accused Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of seeking to divert a debate on Polish record on the rule of law with spurious arguments. She also urged Poland to restore independence of its justice system, dissolve the Disciplinary Chamber, and bring unlawfully fired judges back to work.

Almost 6,000 Polish soldiers are now guarding the country's border with Belarus in stepped up security measures in the face of a surge in migration, the defence minister said on Tuesday.