There has been an attempt to unblock the dialogue between Polish government and the EU commission about the former’s judicial reforms. The Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, Věra Jourová, visited Warsaw today to discuss the changes with a number of Polish politicians. Will Jourová's mission be successful? It is difficult to be optimistic at this stage, especially given the parties she did not meet.

US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher emphasized on Twitter that F-35 fighters will strengthen the Polish-American partnership for the good of joint security.

The 75th anniversary of the liberation of the German Auschwitz concentration camp is being  commemorated in Oświęcim Brzezinka. The anniversary ceremony gathered around 200 former prisoners...

The NBA legend perished in a crash of his private helicopter along with four other people onboard, in California. The daughter of the 41 years old basketball icon was among them too. She was thirteen. People all over the world send their thoughts to the family. Rest in peace, Kobe.

Tourists are more and more eager to visit the salt mine in Wieliczka. Last year nearly 1.86 million tourists visited the salt mine lying south of Cracow - it is up by 7 percent compared to the previous year.

The Polish Aviation Group (PGL), which Polish national airline PLL LOT is part of, takes over Germany's biggest vacation airline, Condor Air. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed the deal on Friday.

As announced yesterday by its first president, Małgorzata Gersdorf, the Polish Supreme Court met today in a meeting of its three chambers: the Civil, Criminal and Labour. The meeting considered whether the new judges appointed at the request of the new National Council of the Judiciary by President Andrzej Duda are legitimately appointed judges. Duda’s position is that the action of the Supreme Court violates the Polish constitutional order.

President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and world renowned historians are publishing articles in international media bringing attention to the falsification of the history of World War II and presenting reliable results of research concerning this tragic period in the history of Poland and Europe.

Jacek Sasin, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State Assets, announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos the plan of establishing a Business Council grouping the presidents of the biggest companies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Majority of Poles are optimistic and believe that things are going in the right direction in Poland, according to a public opinion poll by Kantar Public.

"The Soviet Union did not liberate the Polish capital at all and the Red Army looked idly at Warsaw's agony" - Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki emphasized on portal Politico.

The accusations towards the Speaker of the Senate, Tomasz Grodzki pile up as more and more people come out with testimonies of him accepting bribes in exchange for personally treating patients in one of Szczecin’s hospitals where Grodzki was a director. What’s more, some patients came out with stories of nurses accepting bribes as well and even one patient being placed in the section where lungs were treated after having a surgery on… foreskin. It seems only a matter of time, before Speaker Grodzki will have to defend himself in court.

One of the main speakers at the World Holocaust Forum to be held at the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem this Thursday will be the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin recently sought to blame Polish anti-Semitism for the Holocaust. Poland’s Presidential Chancellery has established a crisis task force in order to counter Putin’s expected continued anti-Polish campaign. Experts and historians from the task force will be able to respond immediately to any of Putin’s historical misrepresentations during the Forum.

Matteo Salvini, leader of the League and former Interior minister will have to stand trial for the alleged kidnapping of migrants on an Italian coast guard ship. So decided a special Italian Senate committee. The decision to lift Salvini’s immunity comes a week ahead of crucial regional elections in Emilia Romagna.

The Mexican government announced on Friday that work had begun to strengthen the security of the southern border of the country against another approaching caravan of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador, numbering over 3,000 people.

The Russian Defence Ministry accused Poland's World War Two Home Army (AK) of exterminating Jews and Ukrainians in Warsaw before the city's so-called liberation in 1945 by the Red Army. Russia celebrated January 17th as the 75th anniversary of the "liberation day" of Warsaw. Yet the Red Army reached the Vistula river five months earlier August 1944. According to historians, Russians did little to stop Nazi Germans from butchering Poles defending their capital city.

Yesterday, The Venice Commission issued their opinion on a judicial reform bill currently debated in the Polish Senate. According to the Commission, the law proposal constitutes a threat to the independence of the courts. In response, Polish Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro stated that the activities of the Venice Commission is a form of neocolonialism on the part of the "old states" of the European Union towards Poland. The Commission is an advisory body to the Council of Europe and its opinions are not binding.

Yesterday, the leaders of the 4 Visegrad Group member states, Poland,Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia met with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Prague. The big topic of the day was the Just Transition Fund, unveiled by the President of the European Commission as part of her Green Deal program intended to lower Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.