ORLEN Group posted record-high LIFO-based EBITDA of PLN 3.2bn, up by PLN 1.2bn (y/y) for the Q2 of 2021. The strong market position of the Group has also been confirmed by the net profit of PLN 2.2bn and 73% (y/y) growth in revenue to PLN 29.4 bn. The power generation and petrochemical segments had the greatest impact on ORLEN Group's results. More than half of ORLEN Group’s sales revenues come from foreign markets.

"Poland is ready to help Kryscina Tsimanouskaya (...) She was offered a humanitarian visa and is free to pursue her sporting career in Poland if she so chooses," wrote Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Marcin Przydacz.

Babia Góra National Park is one of the 23 national parks in Poland. It was established on 30 October 1954 by the government and is located in the southern part of Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

The implementation of the "Fit for 55" climate package would mean problems not only for agriculture across Europe, writes "Nasz Dziennik”. According to Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski, the European Commission says outright that it wants to end all animal husbandry in the EU.

A 31-year-old city bus driver who ran over a 19-year-old girl in Katowice (Silesia Voivodeship) on Saturday morning (31 July) will be brought to the prosecutor's office on Sunday, where he will give explanations, police said. Until then, the man will remain in police custody.

11 concerts on two stages are planned during the 24th edition of the Jazz Jantar Festival which begins on Monday (12 July) in Gdańsk in its summer edition. Musicians from Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and the USA will perform.

"For several years now, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, July 11, 1943, right here in Volhynia Square at the Monument to the Victims of Genocide, we have been paying homage to the victims of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the citizens of the Second Polish Republic," wrote the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport, Prof. Piotr Gliński, in a letter addressed to the participants of the National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide in Volhynia. Deputy Minister Magdalena Gawin took part in the celebrations, reading out the Deputy Prime Minister's letter and laying wreaths at the Monument to the Victims of Genocide in the Volhynia Square in Warsaw.

At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda is visiting Krakow today. The two leaders visited the Special Forces Component Command in the morning.

Nearly 160 pianists qualified for the Chopin Competition will perform from 12 to 23 July 2021 in the Chamber Hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.

Beginning the Economic Panel entitled "What is economic patriotism and why is it important for Poland's economic development?", editor-in-chief Tomasz Sakiewicz asked the speakers what economic patriotism is. The following guests took part in the debate: Robert Perkowski - Vice President for operational purposes of PGNiG SA, Artur Warzocha - President of Tauron Nowe Technologie and Paweł Śliwa - Vice President for Innovation of PGE.

The meat of sacrificial animals was probably eaten there, and certainly, wine was drunk in honour of the gods - archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old outdoor sacred banqueting site carved into the bedrock at Nea Paphos in Cyprus. This is the first site of its kind unearthed in Cyprus.

The names of nine miners from the Wujek mine, who were killed by police during the pacification of the plant at the beginning of martial, law have been inscribed on a commemorative plaque in Tychy. It was placed at the base of a five-meter-high model of a mining carbide lamp, which illuminated the first settlement in Tychy.

Classes with the use of different painting techniques such as acrylic paints, watercolours, pastels are offered by the Outdoor Summer School, which starts on Thursday afternoon in Stalowa Wola within the framework of the Drawing and Painting School 'Karpiński'.

This weekend, from July 9th to 11th, Piotrkow Trybunalski will host the XVI Congress of "Gazeta Polska" Clubs. "After a one-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic, we will meet again among friends," wrote the Chief of the “GP” Clubs Ryszard Kapuscinski on the klubygp. pl website. There are about 500 "GP" clubs all over the world.

- We already know that the losses suffered by Poland during World War II amount to one trillion zlotys - said Jarosław Sellin, Deputy Minister of Culture, on Wednesday. According to him, the issue of war reparations is to be taken up in the future and put on the political agenda at the right time.

The European Commission has raised its forecast for Poland's GDP growth in 2021 from 4% to 4.8%. At the same time, it estimates that the Polish economy will grow by 5.2% next year (it previously forecast 5.4%).

36 teachers and employees of art schools have been awarded decorations by the President of the Republic of Poland and medals and ministerial badges by the Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport.