Guaranteeing pregnant women free access to the medecines they use most often - this is the main premise of the bill adopted by the government. The list of medicines will be included in the reimbursement notice of the Minister of Health.
Mayors of the 4 capital cities in the Visegrad Group, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Bratislava gathered yesterday at the Central European University in Budapest to strike an alliance, obliging the city halls in the 4 capitals to work together with the aim of convincing the EU to bypass national governments and pay out EU funds directly to local governments which are in opposition to their governments.
The government is going to take action to reduce access to pornographic content for children and teenagers. During yesterday’s meeting with the Family Council, prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated that the government will protect children and teenagers from access to porn in the same way as it does from alcohol and drugs . The Polish PM signalled last week that changes are coming, after reading a report by an NGO about the harm porn causes to young minds.
Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the deadly attack by the communist secret service on striking coal miners in the “Wujek” mine. 9 men were killed and 23 were injured. The massacre of the miners in Katowice was the deadliest event during the 1981 Martial Law in Poland which saw more than 100 dissidents killed when General Jaruzelski’s military junta tried to crush the Solidarity movement.
On Friday, Jan Śpiewak was sentenced by the Warsaw District Court to pay 5 thousand and 10 thousand zloty to Bogumiła Górnikowska-Ćwiąkalska - the daughter of the former Minister of Justice. The case concerned an act of defamation allegedly committed by Śpiewak who had made public her participation in the reprivatization of the tenement house on Joteyki street. The verdict paradoxically means that the activist who revealed the reprivatization scandal in Warsaw is so far the only one to have been sentenced in connection to it.
Yesterday’s hot topic in Poland is the overhaul of the judiciary system which has seen little reform since the communist days 30 years ago. Many pose the question whether Poland is a democracy, or rather a judiciocracy? Politicians of the ruling camp have no doubt that recent actions of part of the judicial community based on a ruling be the European Court of Justice, might lead to legal anarchy. The opposition, in turn, argues that the new proposed amendment to the legislation regulating the structure of the court system is of repressive nature that undermines the legal order.
The establishment of the Polish 5G requires consultation with the European Union to explain that the innovative approach to the use of radio frequencies does not violate competition - said Exatel's head Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski.
On Saturday, the Minister of Defense of Poland Mariusz Błaszczak met on the border with Israel with soldiers of the Polish Military Contingent serving under the UN Temporary Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
President Andrzej Duda met with Krystyna Barchańska, mother of the nearly 17-year-old Emil Barchański who was murdered in 1982, who was the youngest victim of martial law.
The former Polish anti-communist opposition and political victims of the communist era were honored during the Saturday ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. Letters on this occasion were sent by President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
The United States will continue to support Poland – said US Ambassador to Poland Georgette Mosbacher in an interview for the Saturday issue of the Super Express newspaper. She emphasized that she was satisfied with recent progress in Polish-American relations.
A dangerous fire broke out today in the ‘Total’ refinery in Northern France. The company is one of the five largest facilities of this type in the country.
The leader of the Polish People’s party, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, has announced his candidacy in the 2020 Polish presidential elections. In his tweet, Kosiniak-Kamysz said that he believes that he can change Poland for the better.
In a bold move to broaden its international reach, Republika TV proudly announces the permanent inclusion of the English-language program Rock Rachon - We Rollin’ to its programming lineup. Hosted by the charismatic Michał Rachoń, the show has quickly become a staple on the channel's airwaves.
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A tragic accident occurred in the north of Italy. A drunk driver drove into a group of German tourists who were standing on the side of the road. 6 people were killed and 11 were injured. All fatalities were between 20 and 25 years old.
Dr. Manuel Rosa, renowned for his research on Christopher Columbus, recently presented a groundbreaking theory at the Polish consulate in New York. Rosa challenges the conventional belief that Columbus was Italian, suggesting instead that he may have been Polish.
