Agata Pyka is an Assistant Editor at Notes from Poland. She specialises in Central and Eastern European affairs, cybersecurity, and investigative reporting. She holds a master’s degree in political ...

Data from Poland’s state meteorological and hydrological institute (IMGW-PIB) shows that the level of the river has fallen to just 19cm at its Vistula boulevards measuring station in Warsaw. That was ...

Self-declared “citizen patrols” – some of them hundreds strong – have gathered on the Polish side of the border with Germany to oppose returns of migrants whom the German authorities have found to ...

Macierewicz has not yet commented on Bodnar’s request to strip him of immunity. However, last year he accused the government of shutting down the commission and pursuing action against him in order to ...

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Tusk said that he has been in “in contact with the German government, and Chancellor [Friedrich] Merz personally, to inform them that each case [of migrant returns] will be investigated and…no one ...

Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has proposed an entry ban for people from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa. It says this would help stop ...

In a statement to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) in response to this week’s ruling, the education ministry said that it regards Nowacka’s decision on cutting the number of hours as being in force. It ...

Agata Pyka is an Assistant Editor at Notes from Poland. She specialises in Central and Eastern European affairs, cybersecurity, and investigative reporting. She holds a master’s degree in political ...

A guide dog called Melisa stole the show at a university graduation ceremony in Poland, receiving an honorary diploma and a round of applause as she joined more than 120 students completing their ...

Far-right politician Grzegorz Braun, who finished fourth in Poland’s recent presidential election, has been presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including ...

That move would “essentially incapacitate the KAI board and the possibility of any journalistic independence within the agency”, wrote Przeciszewski. He said that the aim of the new venture was not to ...