An attempt to replace the leadership of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has brought a row over judicial independence to a head, pitting the government against the president and raising fresh questions about the limits of their powers.
Poland has become a country of immigration faster than its offices can adapt. Foreigners who live and work there now wait years for residence permits under a 2022 emergency rule that remains in force, with few routes to challenge the delays.
As abortion access remains restricted in Poland, activists have turned to a technology that Poles already use for almost everything else – just steps away from parliament.
A new investigation borrows the methods of forensic architecture to argue that deaths in the Polish-Belarusian borderlands since 2021 cannot be blamed on the cold alone. Poland's Interior Ministry says the report distorts the picture.
Elsewhere, Polish foreign minister confronts Russian counterpart at UN as tensions with Kremlin rise; Hungary allowed to re-enter EU’s Erasmus+ program; Slovakia succeeds in getting Russian billionaires removed from EU sanctions list.
Elsewhere, EU suspends subsidy payments to Czech PM’s business; Slovak PM pressures prosecutor general to resign; and Tusk ally elected to Poland’s constitutional court.
A quarrel over wartime memory and an election campaign that made Ukrainian refugees a political issue have left Poland's largest immigrant community more exposed than at any time since 2022.
In the 12 months since Karol Nawrocki took office, Law and Justice – the party that brought him to power – is tearing itself apart, while the president is emerging as the figure around whom Poland’s right wing could eventually regroup.
A damaged parcel, left unclaimed in a warehouse, turned out to hold a homemade bomb – and exposed a young Russian's years-long entanglement with Moscow's security service, and the wife he drew into it.
Poland already hosts a third of all data centre capacity in Central and Eastern Europe. But as investment pours into artificial intelligence, a debate about the environmental impact is missing.
Elsewhere, Slovakia's referendum fails over low turnout, Hungary heads for a presidential showdown, and Czechia’s double delegation to the NATO summit sparks controversy.
The Polish MEP has turned scandal into campaign strategy, with his party edging toward double digits in the polls ahead of the 2027 parliamentary election.
Governments, lenders and businesses gathered in Poland to unlock fresh funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction, sign investment deals and lay the groundwork for longer-term private investment.
The human rights lawyer has spent her career documenting Russian war crimes. Now she’s trying to ensure they are punished – whether Russia wins or loses on the battlefield.
Six weeks after his Tisza movement upended Hungarian politics, Peter Magyar arrived in Poland on his first official foreign trip – a visit carefully designed to signal both democratic realignment and regional ambition.
Poland's largest crypto exchange has a missing founder, suspected ties to Russian organised crime and a CEO who made large payments to right-wing politicians – all while the president blocked the law designed to regulate the market.
Elsewhere, Poland’s institutional crisis continues to disrupt workings of state; Congress of Sudeten Germans set to take place in Czechia prompts protests; and Slovak judges issue warning over political attacks on judicial independence.
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