The Polish economy may shrink in 2020 for the first time over the past 30 years, recording a recession of 3.9 per cent, and in 2021 it will begin to recover gradually, according to the World Bank report published on Wednesday.
Almost PLN 5 million will come from EU funding for the revitalization of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź. The total value of this investment is nearly PLN 8 million. The contract for co-financing the project was signed by the Marshal of the Łódź voivodeship, Grzegorz Schreiber.
A new package of restrictions will be introducing since Saturday, which is related to the escalation of the number of coronavirus cases. In the red zone, gastronomic premises may only be open until 22.00. Masks will become an obligation on free space not only in the red zone but also in the yellow zone, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski informed on Tuesday.
The next step is behind us, the Head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, wrote after the decision of the Senate, which on Wednesday supported the bill authorizing the President to ratify the Polish-American Agreement on increasing the number of American troops in Poland. The US ambassador to Poland also expressed satisfaction with the vote.
A year ago, on 30th of September 2019, died Kornel Morawiecki. He was an anti-communist opposition activist and a legendary leader of ‘Fighting Solidarity’. The presidential candidate in 2010 and the Senior Marshal of the Polish Parliament of the Eighth Term. He was also awarded the Order of the White Eagle.
The investigation into the insulting of President Andrzej Duda during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Poland's Wedding to the Sea was extended until the 10th of October, the prosecutor's office informed.
The Katyn Shadow March - commemorating about 22 thousand Polish citizens who were murdered by the NKVD in the spring of 1940, went down the streets of Warsaw on Sunday. One hundred fifty reenactors in the uniforms of the Polish Army, Border Protection Corps and State Police took part in the staging.
On Thursday, the Polish Parliament passed the Act on the Medical Fund, which provides for the allocation of additional money for health protection, including for the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer and rare diseases.
According to the information obtained from the Border Guard, the Polish-Belarusian border is currently operating normally, no changes have been made, the spokesman's office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed on Thursday evening.
Poland will receive EUR 18.9 billion in subsidies from the reconstruction fund in 2021-2022, and according to the calculations presented by the European Commission on Thursday, an additional EUR 4.1 billion in 2023.
Today, the Speaker of the Polish Parliament, Elżbieta Witek, commemorated the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union's aggression against Poland by laying flowers at the Monument to the Fallen and Murdered in the East, located in Warsaw.
Kinga Duda is a public Advisor to the President who is her father, – Andrzej Duda. According to the information on the presidential website, she was appointed for an Advisor in August this year.
The preliminary technical and construction project of the PKN Orlen’s wind farm on the Baltic Sea will make the Offshore Design Engineering from the UK. This company, as Orlen said, has over 20 years of experience in such projects. The construction of the wind farm is planned to start in 2024.
In the coming days, the activity of the US air force over Poland will increase, ‘Rzeczpospolita’ reports today. We can expect dozens of allied aircraft at Polish airports and in the airspace, incl. F-16, or air tankers, possibly also fifth-generation F-35 A machines.
On the 11th of September 1944 in the bombed church at the Łazienkowska Street 14, hundreds of insurgents and citizens of Powiśle died. Their remains might still be found under the church’s floor. Each year, at the entrance, there are memory lights.
When will the law on the deconcentration of the media market appear in the Polish Parliament? 'The issue of media market deconcentration should be included in the reform package discussed by the leaders of the United Right (Zjednoczona Prawica),' announced MP Joanna Lichocka, adding that the final decision on this matter will be made in the coming weeks.
We have already welcomed a hundred and several dozen people from Belarus, who were victims of torture, beatings. They required diagnostics, treatment, convalescence, Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said on Thursday.
On Thursday afternoon there will be another round of talks between the leaders of the United Right (Zjednoczona Prawica) concerning the reconstruction of the government. Although the representatives of the three coalition groups were optimistic about the ongoing negotiations. Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of Law and Justice Party (PiS), described the talks as ‘complicated’.
