The incoming president is likely to be even more hostile to the government’s liberal, pro-EU agenda than the incumbent Andrzej Duda. Foreign policy could be a major flashpoint. “I expect Nawrocki to ...

Poland’s foreign minister has spoken out against racism and antisemitism in response to recent cases of anti-immigrant rhetoric and Holocaust revisionism.

A well-preserved, 1,000-year-old wooden sculpture of a human face has been discovered at the bottom of a lake in Poland. The archaeologists behind the find say that it “opens a fascinating discussion ...

In May – the most recent month for which figures are available – chocolate in Poland cost 39.1% more than a year earlier. That was almost double the price rise of 21.1% across the EU as a whole.

Polish clothing giant LPP, owner of brands such as Sinsay, Reserved and Cropp, has agreed to pay a 1.8 million zloty (€420,000) fine to settle an investigation by Poland’s financial regulator into ...

Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, has condemned the installation of new plaques in Poland at the site of the Jedwabne pogrom, during which hundreds of Jews were burned alive in World ...

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, has caused controversy with a series of vulgar messages about Polish politicians on social media platform X, which is also owned by Musk. Most ...

A new museum is being established in Poland to house a remarkably well-preserved 15th-century boat that was discovered near the Vistula, the country’s longest river.

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The Polish government has criticised the actions of self-proclaimed “citizen patrols” that have gathered on the German border with the aim of preventing the return of migrants who have illegally ...

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 ...