On 1 January, the minimum wage in Poland rose to 30.50 zloty per hour before tax, which at current exchange rates is $7.37, 12 cents above the federal minimum wage in the US.

On 1 January, the minimum wage in Poland rose to 30.50 zloty per hour before tax, which at current exchange rates is $7.37, 12 cents above the federal minimum wage in the US.
Ski jumper Andrzej Stękała is Poland’s first major male athlete to do so.
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It will invest between 160 and 208 million zloty (€37-48 million) in the plant, which is expected to employ 350 people.
The outgoing commissioner opposed LGBT “ideology” but is being replaced by a candidate who has expressed support for LGBT rights.
The parties behind the bill deny that it will allow expropriation of private land to be used for wind farms.
The former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner calls the claims against him “terrible insults and monstrous lies”.
PiS accused the opposition of deliberately trying to bring down the value of the state-owned firm.
Restoring funding for IVF was one of the promises made by the incoming ruling coalition.
Tusk responded by dismissing the commission’s findings as a politically motivated attack.
The Grochowskis’ “philanthropic work has had an indelible impact on thousands of refugees”.
It is the first time since Eurostat’s records began that Poland’s savings rate has fallen below zero.
“The aim of the mission is to transfer the experience that Poland has gained” from its own similar crisis on the Belarus border.
This step comes after last month’s decision by the EC supporting Polish claims against Germany.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Already divided, the left risks being subsumed within a new coalition government.