Wiadomości z Polski

Delegations of 32 EU Member States and partner countries as well as representatives of the main European Union institutions debated for two days on the future of the Eastern Partnership and reviewed its achievements since it was launched two years ago.

“As we deserved once to become part of Europe, today Europe deserves our presidency. It will be a good presidency”, said the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk on the first day of the presidency.

Today marks the start of Poland’s chairmanship of the Council of the European Union. Poland is taking over the Presidency from Hungary which has presided over the EU for the past six months.

Representatives of an NGO from Liverpool arrived in the mid-western city of Poznan on Wednesday to study how Poland copes with its long-term unemployed.

Polish daily newspaper “Rzeczpospolita” reports that foreign investors most often place their business in Western and Southern Poland. Meanwhile, there are regions like Suwalszczyzna, Masuria or Eastern Poland where new, large enterprises are rare.

Bronislaw Komorowski received a resolution from the National Electoral Commission at noon today, confirming his victory in Poland’s presidential elections.

Contrary to initial reports, an examination of the Tu-154's black box flight recorders revealed that the crew made two, not four attempts at landing.

Polski prezydent Lech Kaczynski oraz 95 osob zginelo w katastrofie samolotu podczas ladowania w Smolensku

The fossilised remains of a males from the Neanderthal period have been found in the Stajnia cave, in Bobolice, around 50 kilometres from Katowice, southern Poland.

Poland's Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity - the largest of Poland’s annual fund raisers for children’s help organisations - raised 36 million zloty (8.5 million euros), Sunday.