The Polish government plans to allocate up to PLN 5 billion (EUR 1.09 billion, USD 1.27 billion) for subsidies next year to protect low-income households from soaring energy prices, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaking at a meeting of the Sejm lower house of Polish parliament on Thursday, 14 October.Photo: PAP/Paweł
A group of around 30 young men on Thursday disrupted a Moscow screening of Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s movie "Mr. Jones" about a 1930s famine in Soviet Ukraine, a website has reported. Agnieszka Holland.PAP/Maciej Kulczyński The screening, co-organised by the Polish Institute in Moscow at the headquarters of Russia's Memorial human rights group, had to be cancelled after the assailants stormed the venue and intimidated the audience, the dorzeczy.pl website reported. They shouted
France’s state-controlled utility EDF has offered to build up to six nuclear reactors in Poland, with a total installed capacity of up to 9.9 GWe, a business website has reported. France’s state-controlled utility EDF has offered to build four to six nuclear reactors in Poland, with a total installed capacity of up to 9.9 GWe.Pixabay License: Image by Markus Distelrath
Poland has joined a group of 10 EU countries led by France that have appealed to the European Commission to recognize nuclear power as sustainable and part of the bloc's long-term transition towards climate neutrality. Photo:pixabay.com/CC0 In an open letter published in several European newspapers this week, the 10 countries pleaded the case for nuclear power as an "an
A German political economist has said that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal was right in ruling that only national courts could interpret the limits of the powers of European Union institutions, according to a report by Polish state news agency PAP. Roland Vaubel, a German political economist, has said that Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal was right in ruling that only
A German historian has said his country owes Poland EUR 800 billion for the damage inflicted by the Nazi German invaders during World War II, according to a report. Pixabay LicenseImage by moerschy from Pixabay In an interview with the dziennik.pl website, Karl Heinz Roth was quoted as saying he was researching the issue of war reparations because “they have no statute of limitations, no
Poland’s government plans to increase excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products in a series of hikes beginning next year, state news agency PAP reported on Monday. Photo:pixabay.com/CC0 The Polish finance ministry wants to raise tax on spirits, beer, and wine by 10 percent in 2022 and by 5 percent each next year until 2027, according to the news agency. Meanwhile, excise
(Reuters) - Poland will continue to respect European Union law, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, after the country's Constitutional Tribunal ruled that parts of EU law were incompatible with Poland's constitution. Photo:Pixabay.com The ruling plunged the European Union into an existential crisis on Friday and raised the possibility of Poland leaving the 27-nation bloc. France and Germany said
Poland’s biggest oil refiner PKN Orlen announced on Friday it would build a EUR 641 million oil-processing facility at its refinery in Mažeikiai, northwestern Lithuania, Polish state news agency PAP reported. Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin and PKN Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka PKN Orlen hailed the project as its biggest-ever initiative in Lithuania, with work
Poland's conservative prime minister has said his country's top court confirmed the primacy of the national constitution over European Union law when it ruled some articles of the bloc’s treaties unconstitutional in the country. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.Photo: PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik Mateusz Morawiecki's remarks came after Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruledthat parts of EU treaties were incompatible with the Polish constitution, adding to friction between Warsaw
