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 ...

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 fisherman has discovered a well-preserved medieval sword in the Vistula, Poland’s longest river. The item has now been handed over to the authorities, who will ensure that it is properly preserved ...

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has ruled that the government’s decision to halve the number of hours that Catholic catechism classes are taught in schools is unconstitutional because it was not ...

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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 mammoth tusk and a pelvis fragment that belonged to either a mammoth or a forest elephant have been discovered during archaeological works in southeastern Poland.

With less than two percentage points separating the winner from the runner-up, Poland’s presidential election was the tightest in the country’s post-communist history.

Right-wing opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential election, official results show. With 100% of districts having reported results, Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote against 49 ...

Poland’s fertility rate, already one of the lowest anywhere in the world, fell to a new record low in 2024, raising further concerns about Poland’s demographic future with its shrinking and ageing ...

In Polish presidential elections, if no candidate wins more than 50% in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes meet in a second-round run-off two weeks later. Trzaskowski and Nawrocki ...