Few had expected the president, an ally of the former ruling PiS party, to sign the bills.

Few had expected the president, an ally of the former ruling PiS party, to sign the bills.
Identification documents for the victims were handed to members of their families at a presidential palace.
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Jacek Sasin pointed to the high costs of EU carbon permits, which are particularly heavy for coal-reliant Poland.
The profiles criticised Poland and accused it of abusing migrants.
Asylum requests can only be lodged at designated locations and it will be easier to return people whose applications have been rejected.
The politician denies the claims, saying he is the victims of a “perfidious media attack aimed at breaking up the government majority”.
A state of emergency had been due to shortly expire, but has now effectively been extended.
Protesters have blamed her death on the abortion law, but conservatives point to doctor error.
A historian says it is part of efforts to obscure “Polish complicity in the Holocaust” but a deputy minister accuses him of spreading “fake news”.
Attendance in restaurants, churches, gyms and various cultural venues has been restricted.
The prime minister attended the reburial in Poland of Maurycy Mochnacki, who went into exile in France after a failed uprising against Russian rule.
But religious belief has dropped little and remains very high, finds CBOS.
Over 100 men – mostly from Iraq – tried to destroy fencing, shouting “freedom” and that they wanted to reach Germany.
The decision was prompted by the recent death of a pregnant woman in a Polish hospital, which many have blamed on the near-total abortion ban.