The new rules would increase the residency period from three to eight years and require applicants to take a citizenship test.

The new rules would increase the residency period from three to eight years and require applicants to take a citizenship test.
Daniel Tilles
With growing military, economic and energy ties around the Baltic, Poland is increasingly looking north, unlike for most of its recent history.
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“If there won’t be [child benefits], homes will be burned,” said the man in a video posted on social media.
Nawrocki has vetoed as many bills in his first month as his predecessor did in the almost 20 months he cohabited with the government.
The firm claims it will be at the “forefront of the global deployment of small modular reactors”.
Adam Niedzielski has blamed the current government for withdrawing his protection despite him regularly receiving threats.
Poland’s state meteorological and hydrological institute predicts the level will fall even further.
Karol Nawrocki criticised Donald Tusk’s government for overseeing a record budget deficit.
Vladimir Semirunniy thanked Poland’s president for helping him obtain citizenship.
The bill would also criminalise propagating the ideology of historical Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
Karol Nawrocki says that he wants benefits for refugees to be conditional upon them working.
Participants held up signs showing the names of people who have been killed by Russia during the war.
The crime carries a potential sentence of up to one year in prison.
He also hinted that its current leading figure, 76-year-old Jarosław Kaczyński, is too old.