Evacuation underway for Donbas Poles
Polish government-led efforts to evacuate around 200 people of Polish descent from the pro-Russian rebel-held Donbas region in eastern Ukraine got underway, Sunday. Some 162 people are waiting at the Polish...
Polish authorities still working on Donbas evacuation plan
A delegation from the Polish foreign ministry, currently in eastern Ukraine, is still preparing evacuation plans for people of Polish descent in the separatist-held Donbas region. “We are determined to...
Polish mother convicted of killing son found dead in UK cell
A Polish woman convicted in 2013 of murdering her son in a notorious case that shocked the UK has been found dead in her cell in Derby, England. Magdalena Łuczak was discovered lifeless at 7:15 am on Tuesday,...
Police arrest Pole suspected of people smuggling
A 46-year-old Pole, suspected of smuggling Syrians to Europe, has been detained in Warsaw. Dariusz Z. (surname withheld under Polish privacy laws) was arrested in Warsaw’s Targówek district on a European...
Poland will control borders for World Youth Day
Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has confirmed that Poland will reintroduce border controls for World Youth Day in July, after the US Department of State issued a “travel alert” report for the country....
Exit poll: Duda wins first round with 34.8%, Komorowski with 32.2%
An exit poll released seconds after polling stations closed in Poland reveals that major opposition rival Andrzej Duda beat incumbent Bronisław Komorowski by winning 34.8 percent of the vote, with the...
Kulczyk heads list of richest Poles
With a net value of around PLN 16 billion (EUR 3.84 bln) serial entrepreneur Jan Kulczyk is once again Poland’s richest individual. Kulczyk has regularly topped the list published yearly by the Wprost...
Schetyna plans US tour to meet John Kerry
Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna will fly to the United States for a series of meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry. The two politicians are expected to discuss the volatile situation...
Homage to Poland, by Roger Iredale
Sometime in the 1960s my father, who worked at the registry of merchant shipping near London, laid out on the breakfast table four or five British ships’ logbooks for me to look at. He had quietly borrowed...
Fiasco over Polish pendrive 'made in China'
The Economy Ministry has suffered an embarrassing mishap after a pendrive distributed as part of a campaign to promote Polish entrepreneurship was alleged to have Chinese origins. "This is a situation...
Important information for British citizens living in Poland
Read what British citizens living in Poland need to know about their rights to stay in their Member State of residence after the UK leaves the EU.
IVF mother gives birth to another woman's child in mix-up
A Polish woman who underwent IVF treatment gave birth to another woman's child owing to an alleged mistake at a hospital in the town of Police, north west Poland. ''Put simply, everything indicates that...
