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Pension fund reform.

Participants of the Open Pension Fund will have two months to decide where to transfer their money - either to the Social Insurance Institute or to the Individual Retirement Pension Account (IKE). According to Business Centre Club expert Dorota Dula, it is too short a period for such an important decision.

Nearly 8,000 new coronavirus infections, 216 deaths

The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that further 7,937 coronavirus infection cases and 216 deaths were confirmed in Poland. Over 50,000 tests coronavirus tests were taken within the last 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, Poland has reported a total of 1,719,708 infection cases and 44,008 deaths.

CJEU: Polish law on judiciary council may violate EU code

EU's Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that successive amendments to Polish law regulating the country's Council of the Judiciary may stand in violation of the European law. The decision pertains to changes which, according to the European high court, "have removed effective court supervision of Council's decisions regarding nominees for Supreme Court justices".

Ten years after Warsaw activist Jolanta Brzeska's unsolved death

What happened to Jolanta Brzeska? It's been ten years since the investigators began the search for answers. Her friends and colleagues claim she was murdered after making enemies with property developers. The prosecutor's office has been issuing further opinions, questioning witnesses and collecting evidence. Unfortunately, however, breakthrough is nowhere to be seen.

COVID-19 chief advisor: Poland should brace for 50-60 percent spike in infections

The Ministry of Health informed on Monday about 4,786 new cases of coronavirus infection and the death of 24 COVID-19 patients. Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Poland has reported 1,711,772 infections. President Andrzej Duda talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about buying the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine. Poland's chief COVID-19 advisor said on Monday that in the worst-case scenario, the number of daily infections could go up even by 50-60 percent.

Timely reactions can save lives. "LGBT+me" campaign launched

"We receive calls from young people who tell us about their struggle, about their loneliness. Lack of sense of security is apparent. It is strictly connected with social and political climate" - Łukasz Wojtasik of the Empowering Children Foundation told TVN24. Activist Bart Staszewski stresses the importance of reacting when witnessing discrimination, especially aimed at children. The foundation has just launched "LGBT+me" campaign promoting allyship behaviour.

"We decided we had to take a small step back"

A northeastern region of Poland famed for its lakes, forests and sailing will see a raft of COVID-19 restrictions brought back from Saturday after it became a hotspot for infections, the government said.

"The South African variant has appeared"

The South African variant of the coronavirus is now present in Poland, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Friday, as the country braces for a third wave of the pandemic.

"We are at the beginning of the third wave"

Poland is seeing the beginning of a third wave of coronavirus infections, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday, as the country posted a large week-on-week increase in daily cases.

"The reversal in the trend has become a fact"

The COVID-19 pandemic is on the rise again in Poland, the health minister said on Tuesday, a worrying turnaround after case numbers stabilised following a second wave of infections last autumn.

"I am very sorry that prosecutors are treated in this way"

Polish prosecutors critical of government reforms say they are being punished by being reassigned at short notice to posts hundreds of kilometres away - something their employer says is necessary to address pandemic-related staff shortages.