Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into OTS, ORLEN's Swiss subsidiary which had lost $400 million on prepayments for oil that was never delivered.

It also announced that the homes of Orlen's former senior management had been searched
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A Jewish woman born in the Bergen-Belsen camp and whose mother escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto finally tracked down her Polish family through a blend of DNA technology and genealogical detective work.

Her remarkable quest spanned decades and continents
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Poland’s largest natural gas producer has sent its customers letters informing them of a sharp increase in bills.

The opposition Law and Justice party has called on the government to pass a law extending the gas price freeze
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A football fan has walked over 100km to honour a pledge and pay homage to a goalkeeper who scored a goal during a top-flight Polish league match.
He documented his journey on social media and raised 14,000 zloty for a boy in need of heart surgery
notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/30/pol…

A Jewish woman born in the Bergen-Belsen camp and whose mother escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto finally tracked down her Polish family through a blend of DNA technology and genealogical detective work.

Her remarkable quest spanned decades and continents
notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/30/ber…

World Central Kitchen has named its new field facility 'Damian’s Kitchen' after Damian Soból, a Polish volunteer with the organisation who, along with six colleagues, was killed in Gaza in an air attack by the Israeli army earlier this month

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Poland has recorded the lowest level of support for the country’s presence in the EU in more than a decade, according to a new poll.

The score comes after years of record-high support for EU membership, often close to or exceeding 90% notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/29/pol…

World Central Kitchen has named its new field facility 'Damian’s Kitchen' after Damian Soból, a Polish volunteer with the organisation who, along with six colleagues, was killed in Gaza in an air attack by the Israeli army earlier this month

notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/29/wor…

Opposition party PiS has pledged to oppose the EU's Green Deal in a bid to win votes ahead of the EU election.

The promise has been met with scepticism, with some pointing out the set of EU climate policies was approved by Warsaw when PiS was in power

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Poland has launched a special app, called Refugeebook, to help those who have applied for asylum.

Available in Polish, English, Russian and Ukrainian, it provides information on their rights and obligations as well as support available to them notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/26/pol…

Poland saw the EU’s third-highest rise in household electricity prices in the second half of 2023, with costs up by almost 27% on a year earlier notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/26/pol…

The government’s majority in parliament has approved a law recognising Silesian as an official regional language.

Right-wing opposition parties voted against the bill, citing linguists who say that Silesian is a dialect of Polish rather than a language notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/26/law…

'Conservatism is a concept of the future that will protect us against the destructive ideas of liberal elites,' said Mateusz Morawiecki at CPAC Hungary.

Poland's current government criticised the former PM for attending a gathering of 'pro-Putin nationalists' notesfrompoland.com/2024/04/26/cpa…