Polish security services and police accessed citizens’ phone records more than 2 million times in 2024 without court approval, Gazeta Wyborcza reports - in apparent breach of EU privacy laws and human rights rulings. Polish authorities' unchecked access to phone data over two million times in 2024 highlights a stark clash between national surveillance practicies and EU human rights
Residents of Bogatynia, a town in southwestern Poland near the borders with the Czech Republic and Germany, successfully prevented far-right activist Robert Bąkiewicz from holding a planned rally, denouncing what they described as an attempt to intimidate the local community with paramilitary-style tactics. Residents of Bogatynia, a town near Poland’s Czech and German borders, blocked far-right
Poland could lose more than USD 2 billion due to new US tariffs on European Union goods, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański His estimate came after US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen reached a trade deal on Sunday that includes 15-percent tariffs on most goods imported from the
Nationwide outrage has gripped Poland after a 60-year-old parish priest admitted to brutally killing a 68-year-old man with an axe and setting him on fire while he was still alive. The escort of a 60-year-old parish priest from east-central Poland to the prosecutor’s office. The clergymen had confessed to the murder of 68-year-old acquaintance with exeptional
US President Donald Trump is reportedly growing increasingly frustrated with Russia’s failure to make meaningful progress toward ending its war against Ukraine, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. US Secretary of State Marco RubioPhoto: Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press/East News In an interview with Fox News on Saturday, Rubio stated that while President Trump remains committed to
Forty-eight artists from Ukraine and Belarus have won scholarships from the Polish culture ministry in the latest round of its annual Gaude Polonia initiative. Photo: Danuta Matloch/MKiDNPolish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage The programme, now in its 24th year, is open to creatives working in fields such as film, photography, heritage conservation, literature and translation, music, visual arts, theatre and art, and theatre and film criticism. Photo:
Poland’s lawmakers have approved the government’s handling of the country’s 2024 budget. The lower house of Poland's parliament, the Sejm, in session in Warsaw on Friday, July 25, 2025.Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka The lower house of parliament on Friday voted 237 to 202, with no abstentions, to give the government a clean bill of health over last year’s budget and to adopt
During a meeting on Thursday with Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański, Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasised that they both share the view that the mission’s success should be considered a national achievement. Polish astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, Polish PM Donald Tusk Photo: PAP/Rafał Guz The politician added that Poland is proud of what the first Polish citizen on the International
Two Polish academics are taking their challenge over the 2025 presidential election to the European Court of Human Rights, citing systemic mishandling of citizen protests. „We have a right to know the true result,” say the authors of a complaint submitted to the European Court of Human Rights over Poland’s 2025 presidential election. Photo: Courtesy of the
Poland’s labor authorities have launched mass inspections at Amazon warehouses across the country after left-wing Deputy Speaker Włodzimierz Czarzasty intervened following the death of a 48-year-old employee in Sosnowiec, a city in southern Poland. After the intervention by left-wing Deputy Speaker of the Polish Parliament Włodzimierz Czarzasty, Poland's National Labor Inspektorate launched widespread inspections at Amazon
