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 ...

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 ...

Jacek Siewiera, the head of Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN), today declared that the new NATO figures show that “Poland [having] the largest army in Europe has become a fact”. He added that ...

Poland’s culture ministry has set up a special department, headed by a former military intelligence officer, to prepare for the safe evacuation of the country’s most precious ...

The pair have been charged with leading a criminal group, committing fraud, issuing fictitious invoices and tax evasion that cost the state eight million zloty (in addition to the money fraudulently ...

Ziętek warned that the government assuming “the role of a super-arbiter of human consciences” suggests that it is “heading in the direction of a totalitarian state”. While the abortion ruling was ...

Poland’s parliament has approved a proposal by the government to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, which commits signatories to eliminate the use of anti-personnel landmines. Warsaw argues that mines ...

Two wooden shipwrecks dating to the 18th century have been discovered in the Baltic Sea off the northern coast of Poland. The divers who made the discovery reported finding well-preserved ceramics and ...

A lecture by Polish-Canadian Holocaust scholar Jan Grabowski at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw had to be abandoned yesterday after a far-right leader disrupted the event and reportedly told ...

According to the Deon report, data from female and male Catholic religious orders in Poland tell a similar story. In 2000 there were 566 postulants seeking admission to convents in Poland, but by 2009 ...

Poland issued almost one million first residence permits to immigrants from outside the European Union last year, more than any other EU member state. It is the fifth year in a row that Poland has ...

The bill now moves to the upper-house Senate, which is also controlled by the ruling coalition and which can in any case only delay, not block, legislation. Once approved by parliament, it will go to ...