Poland's finance minister warned Western partners at G20 talks in the United States that Russia cannot be trusted after Moscow's representative joined the group for the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Financial officials and business executives attend a G20 gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, Aug. 31, 2026.REUTERS/Sam Wolfe Andrzej Domański, attending
The Polish economy grew 3.9 percent in the second quarter of this year, after expanding 3.5 percent in the first quarter, the country’s statistics office said on Monday in a preliminary estimate. Pixabay LicenseImage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The latest figure was 0.1 percentage point above a flash estimate released by the Statistics Poland (GUS) office in mid-August. Investment rose 8.4 percent, while private consumption increased by 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, Statistics Poland reported. Domestic demand went up by 3.5 percent,
Around 1,400 events are being held across Poland this weekend as part of a National Response Training day, teaching residents how to react to alarm signals and prepare for emergencies. A civil protection and defence education point opens in Lublin, eastern Poland, as part of National Response Training day.PAP/Wojtek Jargiło Free sessions are taking place at fire
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Saturday that Russia continues to escalate its actions and that the next six months could be decisive for the security of Poland and NATO. Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk.PAP/Paweł Supernak He was speaking after a briefing from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on the situation in the region and developments on
Talks between Warsaw and Washington on establishing permanent US military bases in Poland are progressing, Polish officials say. Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (left), Poland's deputy prime minister and defence minister, with Paweł Zalewski, deputy defence minister.The Polish defence ministry/gov.pl Deputy Defence Minister Paweł Zalewski met US Under Secretary of Defence Elbridge Colby at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday
Poland's air force will grow by five F-35 fighter jets on Friday, defense officials said, as the country presses Washington to keep deliveries of the American-made stealth aircraft on schedule. An F-35 fighter jet.Alexander Cook/CC0 Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka said the jets will land at the 32nd Tactical Air Base without fanfare. "I'm glad that the
Poland is training hundreds of thousands of civilians, teaching schoolchildren to handle firearms and enlisting churches and volunteer groups to ready the nation for war, a leading Swiss newspaper reported Wednesday, contrasting the effort with Switzerland's own reluctance to do the same. FILE PHOTO: Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (C), Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk (L),
Unemployment in Poland held steady at 5.8 percent in July, unchanged from June, the country's statistics office reported on Tuesday. Pixabay LicenseImage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The latest jobless figure came in slightly below an earlier estimate of 5.9 percent from the labour ministry. There were around 906,400 people without jobs nationwide at the end of July, up from 901,500 a month earlier, according to the state-run Statistics
Poland's chief diplomat praised Ukrainian forces for resisting Russian aggression Monday, as Kyiv marked the 35th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union. Radosław Sikorski.PAP/Albert Zawada Ukraine's Independence Day, observed each Aug. 24, commemorates the 1991 vote by the Supreme Council in Kyiv that formally severed the country from the USSR. This year's anniversary comes as
NATO sharply stepped up fighter jet patrols over Poland and the Baltic states in recent days in what analysts described as a test of the alliance's readiness to respond to a limited Russian attack. FILE PHOTO: A Belgian Air Force F-16 fighter jet takes off during a NATO air policing deployment at Keflavik Airport in Keflavik,
