Tatra National Park says that human excrement pollutes soil and water, “disfigures the landscape and degrades the experience of other tourists”.

Tatra National Park says that human excrement pollutes soil and water, “disfigures the landscape and degrades the experience of other tourists”.
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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Poland is the only member state that has failed to submit the document, the final deadline for which passed well over a year ago.
Registrations were up by 94% in the first eight months of the year, which is among the EU’s fastest growth rates.
The planned plant is among 47 raw materials projects the EU has recognised as strategically important.
The system “will allow us to achieve important environmental goals”, says the environment ministry.
However, it remains possible that opposition-aligned President Karol Nawrocki will veto the plans.
Wojciech Kość
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The site is intended to become a key part of Poland’s energy transition, storing surplus power produced by renewables.
The EU needs to take “decisive action to cease financing Russia’s war machine”, says Poland’s energy minister.
Activists discovered the felled tree in 2023, but had to wait 18 months for the authorities to confirm its age.
The firm claims it will be at the “forefront of the global deployment of small modular reactors”.
Both bills were intended to bring Poland in line with EU regulations.
Poland’s state meteorological and hydrological institute predicts the level will fall even further.