“We have a large army – the third largest in NATO in terms of numbers – but we must also have a resilient society,” says the defence minister.

“We have a large army – the third largest in NATO in terms of numbers – but we must also have a resilient society,” says the defence minister.
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The bill was supported by every party apart from the far-right, one of whose leaders said that sometimes “you have to use violence” against children.
The pharmacist argued that dispensing emergency contraception would violate her conscience.
While there were 2,500 reports of wild boars in Warsaw last year, the first six months of this year saw 3,000 such reports.
“One must not succumb to the temptation to arouse hostility towards newcomers in the name of falsely understood patriotism or political calculations.”
Visitors from the landlocked Czech Republic are in particular heading to the beaches of Poland’s Baltic Sea coast.
There are currently over 1 million foreign workers registered in Poland following years of large-scale immigration.
UNICEF and UNHCR have urged Ukrainian refugees to enrol their children in the Polish education system.
The area around the Bieszczady mountains is home to Poland’s largest population of brown bears.
The new levy will inject 2 billion zloty into the Polish budget in 2023 and is to be used to reduce electricity prices for consumers.
In terms of actual individual consumption (AIC) taking account of price differences, Poland has overtaken Spain and almost caught up with Ireland.
Poland and Hungary are the only two countries in the EU where a prescription is required to obtain the morning-after pill.
During the Volhynia massacres, Ukrainian nationalists murdered up to 100,000 ethnic Poles.