While there are reasons to question the independence of a new judicial panel created by the right-wing Polish government and tasked with meting out discipline to judges, Europe’s highest court ruled Tuesday it’s a matter best decided by Polish courts.
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In what looks like a Niagara Falls of yellow feathers, thousands of chicks cascade down a conveyor belt in central Poland.
Read moreEurope’s highest court cracked the whip on Poland’s ruling populists Tuesday, overruling the government’s attempt to force women out of the judiciary sooner than their male counterparts.
Read moreWith overcrowded Greek migrant camps facing explosive new problems, a top EU legal adviser said Thursday that Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke European Union law by refusing to comply with a refugee quota program meant to address such challenges.
Read morePoland’s ruling conservative nationalist party won parliamentary elections on Sunday, a result that likely will lead it to seek to exert even more control over the country’s judiciary and deepen a showdown with the European Union.
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A left-wing party leader in Poland has rescued a 2-year-old boy and his father from a burning car, winning praise across the political spectrum days before a national election.
Read moreA U.S.-based Jewish foundation honored Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects at the event Sunday in Warsaw to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others.
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A county mayor in southwestern Poland is promising a surprise award for the couple who next have a boy in a village where only girls have been born for nearly a decade.
Read moreWading into the fray of what many call a constitutional crisis, the European Court of Human Rights asked Poland on Wednesday to answer whether purported judicial reforms – in this case appointing judges to a judicial watchdog board rather than allowing the judiciary to elect them – violates the civil rights of judges thrown off the board.
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A scheme by Poland’s parliament and its president to overhaul the judiciary by forcing older judges into retirement is unconstitutional and is an affront to the rule of law, the European Court of Justice ruled Monday.
Read moreIn an ongoing tussle between the European Union and Poland over the rule of law, an EU magistrate judge urged his colleagues Thursday to strike down mandatory retirement rules for Polish judges and prosecutors as sexist and an assault on judicial independence.
Read moreBacking a new tax on Poland’s retail sector, the European General Court ruled Thursday that EU regulators were wrong to classify the measure as state aid.
Read moreWeighing in on the ongoing war between the European Union and Poland over the rule of law, a European Court of Justice magistrate said Thursday that a law forcing Polish Supreme Court justices into retirement at age 65 undermines judicial independence and violates the foundations of EU law.
Read morePolice in southern Poland say they are investigating four English-speaking tourists spotted last week in the historic city of Krakow wearing only mankinis.
Read moreThe European Commission took the first steps Wednesday to sue Poland over new judicial disciplinary rules the commission says will make it impossible for Polish judges to be independent and free from political control.
Read moreThe priest in northern Poland who led a public burning of the “Harry Potter” series and other books and items deemed by their owners as harmful has apologized and stressed it was not aimed against books or culture.
Read moreAn extremely rare albino penguin has made its debut at Gdansk Zoo in northern Poland.
Read moreEuropean Union investigators began a weeklong visit to Poland on Monday after reports that sick cows were illegally slaughtered and their meat exported to more than a dozen countries.
Read morePoland’s top state veterinary official says about 5,500 pounds of meat from sick cows who were slaughtered illegally have been exported to 10 other European Union countries.
Read morePoland’s Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers with espionage against Poland on behalf of China, Polish state television reported on Friday.
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