A typical driver in Warsaw spent 70 hours stuck in traffic in 2024.
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Polish opposition presidential candidate “can’t currently see Ukraine in NATO” and opposes ending abortion ban
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the opposition should be “ashamed” of Karol Nawrocki’s views.
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Poland backtracks on plans to limit cash payments
A party in the ruling coalition described limits on cash payments as an infringement of freedom at the behest of “eurocrats” and the “banking lobby”.
Polish Left proposes ten-point women’s rights plan
The proposals include abortion on demand, changing the legal definition of rape, and paid menstrual leave from work.
“Not one more”: thousands protest abortion law after latest death of pregnant woman in Poland
But the conservative authorities say the death was caused by medical malpractice, not the abortion law.
End of the line for Poland’s 666 bus to Hel
The operator has confirmed it made the decision due to complaints about the number of the bus route.
Poland’s last male hermit dies
Elizeusz Janikowski spent his last 23 years living in solitude at a hermitage with no running water or electricity.
Only one new priest ordained in Polish city amid “crisis” at Catholic seminaries
In another Polish city, no new priests were ordained at all for the first time since 1950.
“Every woman has right to abortion if health threatened,” says Polish government after latest death
Women’s rights groups have blamed the woman’s death on Poland’s near-total ban on abortion but officials say it was medical malpractice.
Poland vetoes EU LGBT statement and opposes domestic violence directive
The EU is “privileging homosexuals” while allowing the rights of Christians and other groups to be violated, argues Poland.
European rights court rejects first case by Polish women claiming to be victims of abortion law
Around 1,000 cases relating to Poland’s near-total abortion ban have been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights.
Three detained after ammunition stolen from train operated by US troops in Poland
Unconfirmed reports say that the ammunition was American and that it was being transported to Ukraine.
Jewish valuables buried during WWII found during construction work in Polish city
A third of Łódź’s population were Jews before the Holocaust and the city was home to the second largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe.
Costa del Pole: Polish buyers snapping up record amounts of property in Spain
Alicja Ptak
In 2022, Poles bought almost 3,000 properties in Spain, 160% more than a year earlier.
