The education ministry plans to halve the number of hours that Catholic catechism classes are taught.
Politics
Polish justice minister requests lifting of deputy opposition leader’s legal immunity
Prosecutors want to charge Antoni Macierewicz with alleged crimes committed while head of a commission investigating the Smolensk disaster.
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Polish opposition propose doubling tax-free income threshold in latest campaign pledge
PO has also responded to the government’s plans to increase child benefits next year by proposing that the hike happen immediately.
Kraków bans alcohol sales in shops at night
Councillors in Kraków voted to ban sales between midnight and 5.30 a.m.
Half of Poles support PM’s call to restore death penalty after killing of 8-year-old
Those in favour of restoring capital punishment marginally outnumber those opposed to it.
Poland’s Greens oppose construction of small nuclear reactor in Kraków
They argue that the technology, which is still in development, is not sufficiently tested and produces large amounts of nuclear waste.
Judicial reforms “haven’t turned out well”, says Poland’s PM, blaming justice minister
The justice minister has hit back, blaming the president and PM for blocking some of his proposed reforms.
Poland takes delivery of first HIMARS from US
The rocket artillery system, which Poland first ordered in 2019, has been used to great effect by Ukraine in its defence against Russia.
Will the radical right Confederation emerge as kingmaker after this year’s Polish election?
Aleks Szczerbiak
Both the ruling party and opposition may need far-right support to govern.
Polish ruling party announces rise in flagship child benefit ahead of elections
PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński also pledged free medicines for children and seniors as well as abolishing motorway tolls.
Ruling party supported by and shares mentality with unemployed wife beaters, says Tusk
“Today, the kings of life are those who drink, beat their children, beat women, and have not disgraced themselves with work for many, many years.”
Questions after missile landed in Poland in December but was not found until April
The opposition have called for the defence minister to be fired, but he blames a top general.
Communism prevented Western social revolution reaching Poland, says government minister
The education minister also endorsed a proposed new law to prevent the “sexualisation of children” in schools.
Poland criticises Hungary’s top general for “distorting WWII history”
Hungary’s chief of general staff claimed WWII was a “local German-Polish war” that escalated due to a lack of peace efforts.
