Feb 15, 2025 · notesfrompoland.com

Oct 15, 2024 · Poland’s government has approved plans for a tough new migration strategy that will include the possibility to temporarily suspend the acceptance of asylum claims if “immigrants threaten to destabilise the state”.

Jul 16, 2024 · Poland has the third-largest military in NATO, according to new figures.

Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge, where he works on Polish culture, politics and history.

Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge, where he works on Polish culture, politics and history.

Feb 3, 2025 · Polish billionaire Rafał Brzoska has offered to help left-wing current affairs magazine Krytyka Polityczna after its US funding was suspended by the new Trump administration. Brzoska says that, although Krytyka Polityczna regularly criticises him and his logistics firm, InPost, sustaining media pluralism is vital.. Meanwhile, a number of other Polish media outlets and NGOs – including those ...

Dec 4, 2024 · Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the propagation of “Banderism”, meaning glorification of historical Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.

Feb 14, 2025 · By Krzysztof Mularczyk. OPINION. Poland’s rule-of-law crisis took a new, bizarre twist last week when the chief justice of the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), Bogdan Święczkowski, announced an investigation into Prime Minister Donald Tusk and other senior officials from the ruling coalition, who he says are guilty of operating as an “organised criminal group” in order to mount a “coup ...

Feb 13, 2025 · The list of 11 pledges signed by Nawrocki includes not raising the retirement age, defending the minimum wage and the Sunday trading ban, promoting economic patriotism, supporting the public health service, and protecting Polish agriculture.. One of the promises is to “limit the negative effects” of the EU’s Green Deal and to seek to hold a “climate referendum”.

Jan 3, 2025 · Poland’s minimum hourly wage has, for the first time, surpassed the federal minimum wage in the United States. On 1 January, the minimum wage in Poland rose to 30.50 zloty per hour before tax, which at the average exchange rate so far this year is $7.35.