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Poland to remove Russian tanker that has spent eight years in Polish port and demand compensation
The Khatanga has been moored in Gdynia since 2017 and its Russian owner went bankrupt in 2020.
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Polish firm launches world’s longest heated gas pipeline
The technology decreases the risk of pipes becoming blocked by hydrates, an ice-like mixture of water and methane.
Polish archbishop bans priests from receiving children in their homes
The new set of rules for priests, which aim to protect children from abuse, are the first of their kind in Poland.
Foreign states may have hacked Polish opposition, says PM, condemning “spiral of fake news”
The opposition say the hacking was carried out for political purposes by the government.
Polish government considering tax on vacant properties
“It is important that the apartments that are built on the Polish market go to Polish families,” says a deputy minister.
Bishops grant Catholics dispensation to eat meat on New Year’s Eve in Poland
31 December this year falls on a Friday, when practising Catholics are supposed to abstain from meat.
Smolensk investigatory committee cost 23 million zloty
It has not yet published its findings, despite long claiming they are ready.
Poland to launch demographic plan “based on pro-family policy, not migration”
The aim is to boost one of Europe’s lowest birth rates.
Former anti-communist dissident indicted for criminal defamation of Polish soldiers
Władysław Frasyniuk called soldiers serving amid a migration crisis “trash” and a “pack of dogs”.
British tourist fined £1,500 for presenting fake Covid passport on arrival in Poland
The traveller admitted he had been trying to avoid quarantine.
“Hacking of my phone is just tip of iceberg,” says Polish opposition politician
The hacking could have “influenced the course, as well as the freedom and fairness, of the elections”, claims the senator.
Former dissident awarded 425,000 zloty compensation for communist-era internment
Andrzej Gwiazda was one of the leaders of the Solidarity trade union that helped bring down communism.
President vetoes media law that threatened Poland’s biggest private broadcaster
Andrzej Duda said he took account of a Polish-American investment treaty as well as the issue of “media pluralism and freedom of speech”.
