Available in Polish, English, Russian and Ukrainian, it provides asylum seekers with information on their rights and obligations.
Month: April 2024
Poland saw EU’s third-highest houshold electricity price rises in the second half of 2023
The new figures come as the climate minister today announced that she had approved a rise in the cap on electricity prices.
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Almost 600 people targeted with Pegasus spyware under former Polish government
Although many targets were legitimate, there were “too many cases” in which Pegasus was used by PiS against “inconvenient” figures, says a minister.
Tusk fires official after bizarre series of vulgar tweets
One post suggested a young opposition activist owed his position to providing sexual favours and another mocked the size of a journalist’s penis.
Poland receives largest ever tranche of EU money as first unfrozen funds transferred
The EU has transferred almost almost 27 billion zloty (€6.3 billion) to Poland.
Tens of thousands march against abortion in Warsaw
Two days earlier, parliament gave initial approval to legislation that would soften Poland’s strict abortion laws.
Conservative opposition leader Kaczynski willing to support liberalising Poland’s abortion law
But he warns this could only happen by changing the constitution.
Polish parliament passes bill to reverse previous government’s reform of judicial council
The National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) was at the heart of the rule-of-law crisis that emerged under PiS’s eight-year rule.
Polish parliament approves first steps in ending near-total abortion ban
But the bills still face a number of major hurdles.
The VoiCEE pocast: five trends to shape CEE in 2024
Nicholas Watson
In this episode of the VoiCEE podcast we discuss BIRN’s latest report “Life in the Time of Polycrisis”
Church criticises Polish government for removing Catholic catechism from school grade average
It is “unfair towards students attending religious classes”, says the Catholic church.
Anger after closed meeting of Polish parliamentary group broadcast live
The episode comes amid recent tensions between groups in the ruling coalition.
Warsaw’s biggest church closes for filming of Apple TV+ sci-fi show Foundation
The church says the money made from renting out the building will help fund modernisation of its energy system.
“Gay sex party” priest handed prison sentence in Poland
The incident led to the resignation of the local bishop.
