Jarosław Kaczyński's resignation from the government was noticeable and expected. He had already announced it at the time of his appointment as deputy prime minister, recently also in an interview with "Gazeta Polska."
June 24 is the official end of the school year for all school pupils in Poland. This means that the students have over 60 days off and come back to school after vacations on 1 September. Today students all over Poland will receive their report cards and the best pupils will awarded additional prizes, in most cases books and school supplies. The school assembly usually last until noon but it mainly depends on the school schedules and faculty members.
Jeremy Sochan was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the ninth overall pick in the NBA Draft. The 19-year-old from Baylor University will be the fourth basketball player representing Poland to play in the American-Canadian competition.
Lajkonik Festival is a yearly tradition of Krakow when someone dressed as a Tatar leads a parade through the city. It takes place on the Thursday after Corpus Christi, a Christian religious feast. This year, it happened on June 23rd.
The best balloon teams from Poland and Europe will compete with each other on this Friday in Tychy and Pszczyna! The 2nd Balloon Competition for the Cup of the Marshal of the Silesian Province "In The Silesian Sky" begins June 24. 20 balloon crews will compete in various categories, the most popular of which include "Hare and hound" or dropping the marker by players as close as possible to the place set by the judge, known as the "cross".
Every year, on the 23rd of June, Poles wish all the best to their fathers on the occasion of Father’s Day. In Poland, this day is not a public holiday unlike in Spain.
He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko in 1867. His parents wanted him to become an organist or a tailor but he was stubborn and run away several times. Even though the title of journeyman tailor is his only formal certificate of education, he started out by writing poetry and eventually became a Nobelist in literature. Władysław Stanisław Reymont - a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume great national epic "The Peasants" (Polish: "Chłopi").
This week falls the Multicultural Week in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. For that occasion, multiple concerts, historical reconstructions and workshops on the cultures present in Grodzisk are organized. On June 23rd and 25th will take place concerts of Klezmer music connected with lectures and workshops about Jewish culture and local history.
The 119th day of the war in Ukraine has passed. Russians are approaching Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, while street fighting continues in Severodonetsk....
Every year, on World Public Service Day, the United Nations gives away its most prestigious honours - the UN Public Service Award. Today on June 22, the 2022 UNPS Day commemoration was celebrated online. The main discussed point was the role of public institutions and public servants in building back better from COVID-19 as they work to meet the 2030 deadline for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. This year, a Polish project - the State Health Inspection Record System (SEPIS) was awarded. This distinction shows that Poland sets world standards in the area of using digital tools to respond to crisis situations.
“I would like to say, without any exaggeration, that this is a historic moment. We show in practice that we build our energy security on a multiannual basis,” Jacek Sasin, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Assets, said during Congress 590. What is more, during the congress, Enea, one of the main Polish energy companies, officially launched cooperation with US company Last Energy.
Three of the four sets were dictated by the Polish representatives. Although the Brazilians came back to the game in the last part, they could not make up for all the losses. It was the fourth victory in this edition of the Nations League for the Polish national men’s team.
“Poland, as well as Finland and the Baltic states, are well prepared for a cut-off of gas supplies by Russia because they have long been aware of such a danger - says Thomas O'Donnell, an energy market analyst and lecturer at the private Berlin Hertie School of Governance.
Poland won a brown medal at the 2022 IHF Women's Youth Beach World Championship! Our handball team fought against the Hungarian team on June 19. Before the bronze medal match, Hungary had lost just once in Greece, in the semi-finals against the Netherlands and was the 2017 IHF Women's Youth Beach Handball World Championship winner, bronze medalists at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the current European champion. Nevertheless, Poles defeated this tough opponent and came home with the bronze medal!
Shortly after beginning the occupation of Poland during World War II, the Nazis started mass executions of Polish civilians. The biggest one took place on June 20th and 21st of 1940 in Palmiry - a village 30 kilometres from Warsaw, in the Kampinos Forest. Now, it’s a Memorial Site with over 2,000 burials.
“We have managed to achieve a historic acceleration of investment on the Polish railway,” unanimously the representatives of the leading Polish passenger and freight carriers admitted during the debate at the Congress of the Forum Wizja Rozwoju in Gdynia. The National Railway Programme includes 240 modernisation and investment projects worth almost PLN 77 billion, and this is not the only strategy which is currently being implemented.
The remains of two large ancient stone buildings on top of a hill near Shkodra in Albania were discovered by archaeologists from Warsaw University. Until a few years ago, it was thought that only natural rocky outcrops were to be found there.
Rachel Zegler, the 22-year-old American actress and singer of Polish descent, has been making waves in the entertainment industry with her talent and versatility.
