Daniel Tilles
His triumph is a huge blow to the ruling coalition, but also raises questions for the conservative opposition.
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Daniel Tilles
His triumph is a huge blow to the ruling coalition, but also raises questions for the conservative opposition.
Karol Nawrocki took 50.89% of the vote against 49.11% for his centrist rival Rafał Trzaskowski.
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“One must not succumb to the temptation to arouse hostility towards newcomers in the name of falsely understood patriotism or political calculations.”
Viatcheslav Kantor, a Russian oligarch seen as close to Vladimir Putin, controls a 20% stake in Azoty.
Poland and Hungary are the only two countries in the EU where a prescription is required to obtain the morning-after pill.
Aleks Szczerbiak
Poland could be heading for an unstable minority government propped up by the far right.
The reporter who conducted the interview, however, denies the claim.
During the Volhynia massacres, Ukrainian nationalists murdered up to 100,000 ethnic Poles.
The European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to pay judge Igor Tuleya €30,000 in compensation.
The meeting went ahead anyway, with empty chairs left to represent the missing parties.
The designs were prepared by the firm of world-renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster.
The measure was intended to stop online “prescription factories”, but some elderly patients have been left without medicines
The European Commission found that Poland has made no progress on six of its seven rule-of-law recommendations from last year.
There are estimated to still be over one million Ukrainian refugees in Poland.