At a press conference on Thursday, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced further stages of loosening coronavirus restrictions.

"We are witnessing a blatant violation of democratic standards" - Poland's Justice Minister and chairman of the United Poland party Zbigniew Ziobro said on Thursday. He was referring to the resolution adopted by the European Parliament regarding the so-called conditionality mechanism.

The European Parliament voted on Thursday to sue the European Commission over what lawmakers say is its failure to uphold the rule of law, in a dispute that could affect the allocation of billions of euros in EU aid.

The European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders wrote a letter addressed to Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and Minister for European Affairs Konrad Szymański in which he asked them to withdraw Poland's motion filed at the EU Court of Justice regarding supremacy of Polish law over the European code.

The Court of Justice of the European Union said on Thursday that "a consumer who has taken out a loan denominated in a foreign currency and who does not know that a term in the loan agreement is unfair cannot be subject to any limitation period for the repayment of sums paid on the basis of that term".

The European Commission said on Wednesday it would take part in the Czech Republic's lawsuit against Poland at Europe's highest court over the expansion of the Polish Turów open-pit brown coal mine near the two countries' border.

Polish actor Bartosz Bielenia, who played the lead role in Jan Komasa's "Corpus Christi" - movie nominated for EU Parliament Lux Award, shouted three times in the plenary room to show solidarity with the Belarusian opposition movement. He also spoke about political prisoners of the Lukashenko regime.

"Due to a lack of reliable knowledge you've wrongly served the Belarusian cause in Poland, and by parading with politician from a party which had lost six elections" - Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Ryszard Terlecki wrote in a letter to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. "I'd like to realise that, by accepting an invitation to a rally of anti-government organisation, you place yourself on one side of political front" - PiS politician said.

Defending champion Iga Świątek was knocked out 6-4 6-4 by Greek Maria Sakkari in the French Open quarter-finals, leaving the women's draw wide open on Wednesday.

Yellow card for blatant disregard of fundamental rules of football and sportsmanship was brandished during a third-tier league match in Poland's city of Elbląg. What's more interesting, a single yellow card was enough to send "the 12th player" off the pitch.

Poland's special services spokesman informed on Wednesday about an inquiry into a hacker attack on PM top aide Michał Dworczyk and his wive's private email and social media accounts.

The European Commission has decided today to refer Czechia and Poland to the Court of Justice, because in these two Member States EU citizens are restricted from joining a domestic political party.

Poland twice came from behind to salvage an unconvincing 2-2 home draw with Iceland on Tuesday and left their manager Paulo Sousa with plenty to ponder after their final dress rehearsal for the European Championship.

Poland plans to close Europe's most polluting power plant by the end of 2036, a draft document published by local authorities said on Tuesday, after energy group PGE scrapped plans to develop an open-pit coal mine to support it.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda visited the village of Zaleszany in Podlasie region, where in 1946 a military unit of Romuald Rajs, nom de guerre "Bury", killed 16 residents, including women and children. Members of local Belarusian minority said they witnessed a historic and very moving event.

Poland forward Arkadiusz Milik will miss Euro 2020 after withdrawing from the squad due to a knee injury, the Polish Football Association confirmed late on Monday.

"All of us as citizens have to recognize that the path towards an undemocratic America is not gonna happen in just one bang

Ryszard Terlecki said on Tuesday he would not apologise to Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for his tweet criticising the Belarusian oppositionist. The Deputy Speaker of the Sejm informed, however, he wrote a letter addressed to Tsikhanouskaya "explaining who she is dealing with" taking part in the Campus Polska project.

Iga Świątek held off a fierce challenge from Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk to advance into the quarter-finals of the French Open with a 6-3 6-4 victory on Monday.

Nurses and midwives from Masovian hospitals organised a warning strike in downtown Warsaw. They were met there by the Voivode of Masovian province and former health minister Konstanty Radziwiłł, who said that Poland's conservative government had raised wages in health care in "an absolutely unprecedented way". For his speech he received boos and jeers, and was called "a liar".

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has mentioned a few events from Deputy Sejm Speaker Ryszard Terlecki's life, and said that his colleague from the PiS party "knows perfectly well what fighting for freedom means". This way he commented on Terlecki's tweet criticising Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. PiS arch-rivals, Civic Coalition, demanded his resignation claiming his words stood against Poland's national interest.

The President of the Supreme Audit Office Marian Banaś posted a tweet on Monday with his statement in which he requested publication of investigation materials gathered against him by the prosecutor's office and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau. "My closest people, children, wife, daughter-in-law, even my grandchildren are being harassed" - he wrote.

European Union countries on Monday approved the bloc's flagship fund to wean them off fossil fuels and protect communities most affected, paving the way for members to start receiving the cash.

The United States, Britain and the European Union should act jointly to put more pressure on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and his government, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told Reuters on Friday.

The city of Gdańsk celebrates the 32nd anniversary of Poland's partially-free election of June 4th, 1989, which sparked democratic transition and the fall of communism. For the third time a huge Polish flag, crafted by some 1,000 people was raised at the city's tallest mast, and a special picnic was organised next to the European Solidarity Centre.

Belarus carriers will be banned from flying over European Union territory or having access to its airports from Friday, the bloc said, as the country's exiled opposition leader called for more joint Western sanctions.

"Mentally, emotionally and life-wise I'm ready to make any decision to help reverse this course of events, detrimental to Poland" - former prime minister Donald Tusk told TVN24 on Friday. He added that it was not about his personal ambitions, but rather to restore democratic order in Poland.

Residents of Lithuania's capital and Poland's Lublin can now see each other going about their daily lives in real time, thanks to a 'portal' sending live video to one another's cities.

To mark the 32nd anniversary of Poland's partially-free election of 1989, a monument to the Solidarity trade union was unveiled on Friday in Warsaw by the city mayor Rafał Trzaskowski and Belarusian opposition leader and president-elect of this country Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

Defending champion Iga Świątek wasted no time reaching the French Open third round as she sent out an ominous message to her title rivals with a crushing 6-1 6-1 defeat of Rebecca Peterson on Thursday.