The Parliamentary Committee on Justice and Human Rights gave a positive opinion on the nomination of Law and Justice MEP Bartłomiej Wróblewski as Ombudsman. The candidates of the Civic Coalition and the Polish People's Party, Prof. Sławomir Patyra, and Lewica, Piotr Ikonowicz, did not win the support of a majority of members.

In the Journal of Laws on Thursday afternoon, the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal was published, declaring unconstitutional the provision, which allows the Ombudsman to perform his duties after the end of his term of office until his successor takes office. The provision is to expire 3 months after the publication of the ruling.

The number of Belarusian citizens with valid residence permits in Poland has exceeded 30,000 people. Over the past two years, this group has grown by approx. 50 percent, said the press spokesman of the Office for Foreigners, Jakub Dudziak.

The developing story of high profile political corruption took another turn today as the District Court of Warsaw released Mr. Sławomir Nowak from prison. Mr Nowak was a colleague of former prime minister Donald Tusk, a minister in his government, and head of the Ukrainian road authority. Last year Kiev produced the corruption charges and since July 2020 Nowak has been in detention. The Warsaw court’s decision to free Nowak came as a shock to the prosecutors.

On Tuesday, April 13 at 12.00 in front of the Presidential Palace, the Clubs of "Gazeta Polska" will pay tribute to the late Maria Kaczyńska - First Lady, spouse of the late President Lech Kaczyński. As every year, the area in front of the Palace will be decorated with beautiful tulips, her favorite flowers.

The government has allocated over PLN 30 billion for the local roads fund for the next few years. This will allow many communes, which have been underinvested so far, to create new communication solutions, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Katowice.

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński and the Speaker of the Sejm Elżbieta Witek went to the Military Powązki Cemetery, where they laid flowers and lit candles on the graves of the victims of the Smolensk catastrophe on April 10, 2010.

Krzysztof Krawczyk - a star of Polish popular music - was buried in the cemetery in Grotniki near Łódź. His relatives, representatives of state authorities, as well as hundreds of fans escorted him on his last journey. When the coffin with Krawczyk's body left the temple in Łódź, there was a great deal of applause. "He set off on a beautiful cruise on a steamboat," said Bishop Antoni Długosz.

The Prime Minister and the Minister of Health informed me that the situation was better than expected,.The number of infections is rather decreasing and the health care system has an adequate supply of covid beds, said President Andrzej Duda after the Cabinet Council meeting.

Before the announced summit of the Three Seas Initiative in Sofia, at which an important declaration is to be signed, a meeting was held with the participation of the Three Seas countries, the United States, Germany and the European Commission.

Poland shows that there is an alternative to the model that is trying to impose by part of the establishment in Brussels, that is for federalisation, said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński, referring to the meeting of Polish and Hungarian prime ministers Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban and the head of the Italian League, Matteo Salvini.

Today we pay tribute to health care employees who gave their lives in the fight against the coronavirus and to all other people who bravely prevail the epidemic every day, President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday during the World Health Day celebration.

Poland leads the European Union statistics in terms of the lowest unemployment rate. According to Eurostat, unemployment in February was 3.1% while the Czech Republic came second with an unemployment rate of 3.2%. Spain has the biggest problem with a 16.1 percent unemployment rate.

Today in Poland we celebrate a holiday known as Śmingus Dyngus day, also known as Wet Monday. Initially, Śmigus and Dyngus were separate holidays. Śmigus mainly consisted of symbolically striking willow or palm trees on one’s legs and pouring cold water over oneself, and Dyngus was about visiting friends and people at random.

The artist's manager Andrzej Kosmala informed on Facebook about the death of Krzysztof Krawczyk in the hospital. This information was also confirmed by the artist's widow, Ewa Krawczyk.

Kansas City will be the second place in the United States where the exhibition "Auschwitz. Not so long ago. Not so far" will be presented. It is devoted to the history and importance of the German Auschwitz camp, the Auschwitz Museum reported on Thursday.

Wishes on the occasion of the upcoming Easter were submitted by the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Mariusz Błaszczak, President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, who expressed hope to defeat the pandemic.

Yesterday we reported on “The New Yorker'' magazine story by Masha Gessen. Poles and Holocaust researchers are upset by this counter factual accusation of Holocaust complicity. According to author is the state of Poland to be blamed for murder of 3 millions of Polish Jews. The text caused outrage and the publisher modified it slightly.