Weighing 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.
Read moreFollowing up on its October injunction, the European Court of Justice ruled Monday that Poland threatened “serious and irreparable damage to the EU legal order” by lowering the retirement age for Supreme Court judges to 65.
Read moreElectronics salesman Leszek Jaworowski says he can’t discuss Poland’s coal mining with his father. They end up at loggerheads, just like many families in the southern mining region of Silesia.
Read moreOfficials say an Oscar-nominated American cinematographer has been charged in Poland after he allegedly attacked paramedics and police.
Read morePoland’s populist ruling party has suffered a blow in the country’s mayoral races, with early results showing it failing to win control of any of the nation’s largest cities.
Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Warsaw on Friday amid calls by Polish officials for Germany to pay Poland billions of dollars for damage inflicted by the Nazis during World War II.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice ruled Friday that Poland must stop enforcing a new law that pushed some judges on its highest court into early retirement and reinstate the ones that have already been forced out.
Read moreThe European Union said Monday it has decided to take Poland to the bloc’s top court over the overhaul of the country’s judicial system and also ask the European Court of Justice to suspend a recent law on Supreme Court judges.
Read moreIn Poland, demonstrators are dressing famous statues in a white T-shirt with a single word emblazoned on them: “Constitution.” It’s a protest that goes to the heart of a deepening constitutional conflict in Poland, where the ruling nationalist right-wing party is accused of tightening an authoritarian grip on the country’s judicial system while also stifling dissenting voices and fomenting far-right nationalism.
Read moreWhite storks that have nested in Poland are heading south for the winter earlier than usual after an especially hot, dry summer, a development experts are linking to climate change.
Read morePoland has used its powers as a European Union member to ban a human rights Ukrainian activist from all 26 countries in Europe’s Schengen area, saying she poses a security threat following allegations that she works for Russian interests.
Read moreThe Polish president has vetoed a law on elections to the European Union Parliament that would have benefited large political parties and made it harder for small parties to reach a threshold to get seats.
Read moreA petition drive seeking to overturn a decision to move a statue honoring Polish World War II victims has fallen short.
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