Poland has contributed EUR 25 million to a European fund aimed at supporting the postwar reconstruction of Ukraine, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced. Pixabay LicenseImage by moerschy from Pixabay "The Polish government has contributed EUR 25 million to a European Investment Bank fund dedicated to the reconstruction of Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale military invasion in 2022," the bank said in a statement on
President Andrzej Duda has said that Poland will not transfer weapons it has purchased in recent years to Ukraine or any other country. Polish President Andrzej Duda (left) during a visit to a Hanwha Aerospace production facility in Changwon, South Korea on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Hanwha Aerospace manufactures defense products including K9 howitzers and Chunmoo rocket
A recent decision to replace the human voice on a popular navigation app with AI has caused a nationwide uproar in Poland. Pixabay LicenseImage by Deepanker Verma from Pixabay The familiar voice behind the app, Jarosław Juszkiewicz, is a long-time Polish Radio journalist who for years guided Poles through roads and winding paths both at home and
A new poll suggests that Polish people feel less confident about the capacity of the Polish Army to defend the country. Why? Territorial Defence Troops - being sworn in. Photo: gov.pl Despite assurances of the last Polish government as well as the current ruling coalition that Poland is secure thanks to record defence spending, a new poll suggests that Poland does not
Poland will close the Russian consulate in its western city of Poznań and expel diplomats over a series of sabotage attempts by Moscow, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Tuesday. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak "I have information that Russia is behind sabotage operations in Poland and allied countries," Sikorski told reporters. "I have therefore decided to withdraw consent
An increasing number of young Poles are using cigarettes and e-cigarettes, according to a recent report from the Polish Society of Medical Advances. Pixabay LicenseImage by Ralf Kunze from Pixabay The latest findings show that more 10- to 11-year-olds are trying tobacco products than in previous years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQIt_6gTFo Moreover, one in four primary school students has smoked cigarettes or used e-cigarettes,
A funeral home in Poland has issued an unusual apology after a corpse that it was transporting fell out of a hearse and into traffic. Screenshot of the incident as reported onby interia.pl "It is with deep regret that we inform you that, due to an unexpected malfunction, an unfortunate event occurred during the transportation of the
Twenty percent of Poles over the age of fifteen experience vision problems, a figure that rises sharply with age, the Polish Radio news agency IAR reported on Saturday. One in five Poles suffers from vision problems.Photo: rangizzz/shutterstock.com Citing a new study titled "How Poles See: Policy Brief," the agency wrote that by their fifties, as many as
This week leading professors of law continue to dispute whether we can divide judges in Poland into legitimate judges and "neo" (i.e. illegitimately nominated) judges. Leading professors of law at loggerheads on the Polish Constitution - Marcin Matczak (L) and Ryszard Piotrowski. Photos in montage: Adrian Grycuk/CC 3.0/Wikipedia The constitutional crisis continues in Poland, evidenced this month by
The trial of Dr. Maria Kubisa, a gynecologist accused of aiding in abortion, has begun at the District Court in Szczecin. The doctor is the head of the gynecology department at a hospital in Prenzlau, Germany, and also works in northwestern Poland. Dr. Maria Kubisa appeared in the District Court in Szczecin, northwestern Poland, for her
