President Nawrocki has vetoed a bill regulating the crypto-assets market, which the government said would protect consumers and bring Poland in line with EU rules. But Nawrocki said it “posed a threat to the freedoms of Poles, their property and the stability of the state”.

Forbes looks at how two young Poles created a startup that has established itself as the "voice of AI", outperforming giants like OpenAI in text-to-speech generation and reaching a valuation of $6.6 billion But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.

Donald Tusk has hailed Poland’s “exceptionally good” relations with Germany on security and Ukraine, but also urged Berlin to "hurry up" in fulfilling a pledge to support surviving Polish WW2 victims. Friedrich Merz revealed that the two countries aim to sign a defence agreement next year.

Germany has agreed to return to Poland a collection of 73 medieval documents that were looted during WWII. The culture minister has hailed it as "the most important and valuable return of stolen cultural heritage in modern Polish history".

A court has ruled that Polish former Auschwitz prisoner Stanisław Zalewski, now aged 100, can seek financial compensation from a German publisher that used the term "Polish extermination camp" to describe a former German-Nazi camp in occupied Poland.

Świdnica is the first city in Poland to announce it intends to recognise same-sex marriages concluded abroad, in line with last week's EU court ruling. But the mayor admits they need the government to change the registry system, which only allows registration of marriages between a man and a woman.

Poland's President Nawrocki has cancelled a meeting with Hungary's Viktor Orbán after the latter's trip to Moscow. "In view of the meeting between Orbán and the criminal Putin, it is obvious the president has cancelled this visit [to Budapest]," says Nawrocki's spokesman.

Poland's public debt has been growing at the second-fastest rate in the EU this year, and is set to continue rising. What is behind this trend - and should we be worried - asks Alicja Ptak in the latest of her series of articles and podcasts on the forces shaping Poland’s economy.

Wrocław has become the first city in Poland to be ranked among the top 30 in the world for bike-friendliness. The authors of the Copenhagenize Index praised Wrocław for "years of building safer, more accessible routes" for cyclists. Poznań, Warsaw, Gdańsk and Łódź also made it into the top 100.

Sopot has become the first city in Poland to terminate its partnership with an Israeli counterpart due to the situation in Gaza, which it describes as a “genocide”.

Poland has charged three Belarusians and two Ukrainians – one of whom is a minor – with carrying out espionage on behalf of foreign intelligence. Their actions were consistent with the “modus operandi of Russian intelligence”, says the Internal Security Agency.

President Nawrocki has vetoed a bill that would have introduced universal access to postal voting in Polish elections. He says that there was an "unacceptable risk" of foreign interference in ballots posted from abroad and that postal voting also allows "pressure from third parties" on voters.

The agriculture ministry has recommended that the government seek to buy the Polish assets of French supermarket giant Carrefour and create a state-owned grocery retail network that would challenge the “dominance of foreign discount chains” and support Polish farmers.

Polish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for the two Ukrainians accused of carrying out the recent railway sabotage in Poland on behalf of Russia. However, given that they fled immediately to Belarus, it appears unlikely that they will be apprehended.

The richest 20% of households in Poland receive more in child benefits than the poorest 20%, a new report has found. Its authors recommend that the government move away from universal benefits and instead direct support towards those who need it most.

President Nawrocki has signed into law a government bill increasing the corporate income tax rate for banks in Poland. The measure will provide billions in revenue at a time when Poland is seeking to tackle rapidly rising public debt.

The mayor of Wrocław, two former MEPs and a former presidential spokesman were among 29 people indicted by prosecutors today in relation to a private university alleged to have corruptly issued MBAs without requiring recipients to actually study for them.

Russia has ordered Poland to close its consulate in Irkutsk in retaliation for the “hostile and unjustified” decision to shut Russia’s consulate in Gdańsk. Warsaw made that move in response to Russian sabotage of a rail line. It means neither country will have any consulates operating in the other.

Poland leads the EU in terms of the number of transactions carried out through mobile and internet banking, according to a new report by Deloitte It points in particular to the success of the BLIK payment system, which is now used by over half of Poles.

Poland has chosen Sweden as the supplier of new submarines for its navy. It intends to buy three A26 submarines from Saab, which will replace the Polish navy's only current submarine, a 40-year-old Soviet-era vessel that is in need of constant repair.

One of the leaders of the mass protests against Poland's near-total abortion ban has been denied security clearance, meaning she cannot continue serving on a government commission investigating surveillance of civil society groups, including her own, under the former PiS administration.

Poland will implement yesterday's EU court ruling requiring it to recognise same-sex marriages conducted in other member states, says the justice minister. By contrast, the president's office says it "will not succumb to the terror of rainbow rulings" that "completely destroy the family".

The departure of one of the leaders of Poland's ruling coalition threatens the future of his party, and in turn the prospects of Donald Tusk's government maintaining its parliamentary majority and winning another in 2027, writes @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social.

The Solidarity trade union, which played a central role in bringing down Poland's communist regime, has won a long-running legal battle for control over its famous logo against the man who designed it, Jerzy Janiszewski.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has proposed plans to reform the EU so that it infringes less on national sovereignty, stops “dictating the terms” of member states’ political or judicial systems, and ceases trying to “regulate the entire lives of citizens”.

The EU court has ruled that Poland must recognise the marriage of a Polish same-sex couple who married in Germany, even though Polish law does not allow such marriages. The ruling requires Poland to change its system for recognising such marriages so as not to discriminate against same-sex couples.

Prosecutors have charged a Ukrainian man with assisting in the recent sabotage of a rail line in Poland on behalf of Russia. He is the first person to hear charges in the case, after the two main suspects fled to Belarus immediately after the incident.

The Polish government has criticised Israel's Holocaust remembrance centre, Yad Vashem, for a social media post suggesting that Poland was responsible for introducing anti-Jewish measures during the Holocaust. In fact, Poland was under Nazi-German occupation and rule.

Poland’s justice minister has pledged to take action after far-right leader Grzegorz Braun gave an anti-Jewish speech outside the former Auschwitz death camp. Braun accused the government of "implementing directives presented by various Jewish organisations".

Kraków has become a hub for business services in recent years, but such jobs are now at risk of being replaced by AI, writes Bloomberg. The city is seeing growing layoffs, with the likes of Shell, Heineken, HSBC and UBS among those cutting positions.

While the Catholic church remains a totemic force in Polish society, the relationship between parties and religion in post-communist Poland is a complex one and continues to evolve, writes @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Karol Nawrocki have offered a lukewarm response to Donald Trump’s peace plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine – one of whose 28 points relates specifically to Poland.

A seven-year-old Polish girl, Amelia, was among those killed during Russia's attack on civilians in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil this week, the Polish foreign minister has announced.

Poland and Germany's Catholic bishops have jointly called for “Europe to stand united” and not submit to "fatigue" in the face of “the war being waged by Russia against Ukraine” They also condemned "political actors who exploit painful and historically unresolved issues" between their two countries

Poland will buy $100 million of weapons from the US and supply them to Ukraine, foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has announced. He says the move is part of Warsaw’s response to the recent Russian rail sabotage in Poland, which Sikorski says was "clearly intended to kill Polish citizens".

The new US ambassador to Poland has condemned the "grotesque falsehood" that Poles were to blame for the Holocaust. Thomas Rose, who is himself Jewish, also said that Poland is today “the safest country in Europe for a Jew to walk the streets”.

Poland’s constitutional court has ruled that a government bill aiming to depoliticise the body responsible for nominating judges, one of the institutions at the heart of the country’s rule-of-law crisis, is unconstitutional and therefore cannot be introduced into law.

Poland has submitted a request to Belarus to hand over the two Ukrainians suspected of carrying out last weekend's rail-line sabotage on behalf of Russia. The pair fled to Belarus immediately after the incident.

Poland’s ambassador to Russia has been attacked in Saint Petersburg by a group protesting Polish support for Ukraine.

Polish news website Onet has determined that the names of the two Ukrainians suspected of sabotaging a rail line on behalf of Russia are Yevhenii Ivanov, aged 41, and Oleksandr Kononov, aged 39. The pair fled to Belarus immediately after the incident.

Poles' attitudes towards Germans have significantly worsened in recent years, the latest version of a long-running study has found. Only 32% of Poles now say they like Germans, down from 50% in 2022; and 25% dislike them, the highest figure in 25 years.

The government has announced a military operation that will see up to 10,000 troops deployed to secure critical infrastructure following last weekend's rail sabotage. They also plan to launch an app allowing members of the public to report potential cases of sabotage.

Poland has condemned the removal by the Russian authorities of Polish military symbols at the Katyn cemetery, which houses the remains of thousands of Poles massacred by the Soviets in WWII. The foreign ministry today "conveyed a firm protest" to Russia.

A man in Warsaw received a surprise when he discovered a colony of bats inhabiting a pair of shoes he had left on his balcony. Local animal services, who were called out to help, believe the bats had planned to hibernate there for the winter.

The new speaker of parliament has banned the sale of alcohol in parliamentary buildings. He said that politicians need to "set an example", especially as they discuss a law potentially introducing tougher restrictions on the sale of alcohol in shops.

Poland has ordered Russia to close its consulate in Gdańsk in response to last week's sabotage of a rail line by agents working for Moscow. The decision means that all of Russia's consulates in Poland have now been closed down, with only the embassy in Warsaw remaining.

Polish state energy giant Orlen has secured an environmental decision for a second offshore wind farm in the Baltic. The decision paves the way for the project to compete in Poland’s first offshore wind power auction next month, helping ensure that the auction results in a valid outcome.

Foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has withdrawn former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's diplomat passport at the request of prosecutors, who want to charge Ziobro with 26 alleged crimes. Ziobro was recently stripped of legal immunity but is currently in Hungary.

Two Ukrainians recruited by Russia carried out the acts of sabotage that damaged a train line in Poland, says Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The pair then immediately fled to Belarus.

Poland’s core inflation – a measure that excludes the most volatile categories, such as food and fuel – slowed to 3% in October, its lowest level since 2019. For more, read our report here: notesfrompoland.com/2025/11/18/c...