Agata Pyka is an Assistant Editor at Notes from Poland. She specialises in Central and Eastern European affairs, cybersecurity, and investigative reporting. She holds a master’s degree in political ...

Data from Poland’s state meteorological and hydrological institute (IMGW-PIB) shows that the level of the river has fallen to just 19cm at its Vistula boulevards measuring station in Warsaw. That was ...

Self-declared “citizen patrols” – some of them hundreds strong – have gathered on the Polish side of the border with Germany to oppose returns of migrants whom the German authorities have found to ...

In a statement to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) in response to this week’s ruling, the education ministry said that it regards Nowacka’s decision on cutting the number of hours as being in force. It ...

Macierewicz has not yet commented on Bodnar’s request to strip him of immunity. However, last year he accused the government of shutting down the commission and pursuing action against him in order to ...

Far-right politician Grzegorz Braun, who finished fourth in Poland’s recent presidential election, has been presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including ...

The chamber of Poland’s Supreme Court tasked with overseeing elections – but whose legitimacy is rejected by the Polish government and European courts – has passed a resolution validating the result ...

Poland’s parliament has approved a proposal by the government to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, which commits signatories to eliminate the use of anti-personnel landmines. Warsaw argues that mines ...

A group of researchers who are the latest to claim to have discovered the location of a train full of gold allegedly hidden by Nazi Germany at the end of World War Two have been granted permission to ...

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A guide dog called Melisa stole the show at a university graduation ceremony in Poland, receiving an honorary diploma and a round of applause as she joined more than 120 students completing their ...