It also has the highest rate of chronic diseases among the elderly.
Year: 2020
Poland has EU’s worst air pollution, shows new report
It causes around 50,000 premature deaths in the country annually, finds the European Environment Agency.
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Poland’s oldest oak dies aged 750 after failing to recover from arson attack
The tree dated back to the rule of Bolesław the Chaste as High Duke of Poland.
Coronavirus crisis highlights Poland’s reliance on migrant workers
Barbara Erling
Farmers are struggling to find native replacements amid the lockdown.
A power struggle within Poland’s Supreme Court as it seeks to nominate new chief justice
Anna Wójcik
“Old” and “new” judges, appointed before and after the government’s judicial overhaul, are in dispute.
103-year-old becomes oldest person to recover from coronavirus in Poland
Teresa Wójcik becomes one of the oldest people in the world to have recovered.
Chinese face masks purchased by Polish state-owned firms fail safety tests
State-owned firms have backtracked after calling the reports “fake news”.
Poland the only EU country in which inflation forecast to increase this year
The slowdown in inflation amid the coronavirus fallout is unlikely to offset the large price increases at the start of the year.
Polish state radio accused of censorship after removing chart-topping song critical of ruling party chairman
The head of the station claims the chart was “manipulated”
Polish government honours pro-life activist who stopped teen having abortion by informing her family
The controversy comes amid renewed debate over Poland’s abortion law.
Pope John Paul II’s pilgrimages to Poland in pictures
A selection of images from the Polish pope’s pastoral visits to his homeland.
Polish president and other public figures join online rap battle to raise money for medical workers
The initiative has raised millions of zloty from tens of thousands of donors.
“Człowiek o wielu twarzach”: paradoksy polskiego papieża
Stanisław Obirek
Potrzebna jest bardziej zniuansowana perspektywa, a nie hagiograficzna narracja.
“A man of many personas”: the paradoxes of the Polish pope
Stanisław Obirek
A more nuanced perspective is required than the usual hagiographies.
