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Byline: Andrew Higgins Loyalists of Poland's Law and Justice party are questioning the legitimacy of the election won this month by an alliance of opposition parties. After eight years of [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: An election in Poland results in a victory for three parties working together to end the ruling party's drift toward authoritarianism. When a democracy [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor Poland's nationalist ruling party won the most votes in Sunday's election, but it's heading for defeat. A bloc of opposition parties collectively secured a comfortable majority of [...]

Donald Tusk hailed a new era for Poland after liberal, pro-EU opposition parties appeared poised to oust the governing conservative party in the nation's most pivotal election in decades. A [...]

TUSK CLAIMS ELECTION VICTORY POLISH opposition leader Donald Tusk has declared the beginning of a new era as the ruling Right-wing party faced being ousted after eight years in power. [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker in Warsaw Poland is under attack from both east and west. Foes in Berlin and Moscow, using their proxy Donald Tusk, plan to destabilise the country, overrun [...]

Byline: Gareth Harris (CNN) -- (CNN) -- The artist originally selected to represent Poland at the 2024 Venice Biennale last year has said a decision by the new Polish government [...]

Byline: Analysis by Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Much of Poland's 21st-century story has been shaped by a rivalry between two men. This week, the pendulum between them [...]

WARSAW, December 11, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Poland's government, led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, failed to secure the vote of confidence in parliament on Monday, paving the way [...]

WARSAW, December 11, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Polish government led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki failed to obtain the vote of confidence in parliament on Monday, paving the way [...]

WARSAW, November 10, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Leaders of the Polish opposition alliance on Friday signed a coalition agreement. The agreement confirms Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Coalition [...]

WARSAW, October 15, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) took a lead in Sunday's parliamentary elections with 36.8 percent of votes, according to an [...]

Byline: JOE FISHER Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Poles headed to the ballot box Sunday in a closely watched election as the conservative ruling Law and Justice party sought a third [...]

Byline: JOE FISHER June 4 (UPI) -- Opposition party leaders are heading one of Poland's largest protests in Warsaw on Sunday, marching against the conservative Law and Justice party. People [...]

Byline: Sammy Mncwabe, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Referee Szymon Marciniak will officiate next weekend's UEFA Champions League final after apologizing for his appearance at an event organized by a [...]

1 Polish election heads to run off: Polish President Andrzej Dudadid not win enough of the vote in Sunday's election to avoid a runoff, according to exit polls, forcing him [...]

For Hubert Sobecki, Poland's LGBT+ community is facing its 'darkest hour'. 'We have gone through some tough challenges before, but this is the most trying time I've experienced since we [...]

London: Hogan Lovells has issued the following press release: A Hogan Lovells team in Warsaw led by Dr. Wojciech Marchwicki has secured a favorable ruling before the Warsaw Court of [...]

The draft law would punish judges who speak out on judicial independence. European officials say it continues the ruling party's chipping away at Poland's democracy. WARSAW -- Poland's right-wing governing [...]

Poland may have to leave the European Union over its judicial reform proposals, the country's Supreme Court has said. The proposals would allow judges to be removed if they questioned [...]

Byline: Shaun Walker The museum of the Warsaw ghetto is not due to open for several years, but is already shaping up to be one of the most contentious museums [...]

Prague, Feb 26 (CTK) - Centrist and leftist opposition parties are starting to unite in their respective Central European countries ahead of the EP elections in order to jointly promote [...]

WARSAW, September 7, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) presented its electoral programme on Saturday at a convention in the eastern city of Lublin, [...]

WARSAW, August 27, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is on course to gain the largest number of seats in parliamentary elections on Oct. [...]

WARSAW, July 17, 2019 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The European Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Poland, criticizing a disciplinary regime for judges set up by the ruling [...]

Byline: Duncan Gibbons Elderly survivors gathered at the former Auschwitz death camp as political leaders warned that the Nazi genocide must continue to serve as a warning while the world [...]

Byline: Pawel Nowak HAVING seen our soldiers and veterans honoured on poignant Remembrance Sunday, I watched with astonishment as thousands attended a far-Right march in Warsaw, Poland. After the world [...]

The President of Poland has said he will veto two contentious bills that are widely seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system. The planned legal overhaul by [...]

Hong Kong: Education management information system has issued the following press release: European Commission (EC) has officially launched an infringement procedure against Poland for its latest amendment to Supreme Court [...]

WARSAW, June 16, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Amended laws on the Supreme Court (SN) and common court system introducing changes to the extraordinary appeal and court assessors' appointment proceedings [...]

The leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has told opposition protesters, including MPs occupying parliament's debating chamber, their actions were illegal and could lead to [...]

Prague, Dec 20 (CTK) - The chaos in Poland is due to neither a failure of the ruling party nor an attempted coup, but it is a consequence of the [...]

Poland's independence day has increasingly become a focus of rightwing nationalism. Far-right parties are gathered in the capital Warsaw along with nationalists from Ukraine, Estonia, Russia and the US. The [...]

WARSAW-Imagine a government deciding one day that the country's supreme court is corrupt and needs to be purged completely. A bill is introduced that will force all of the court's [...]

Several thousand people have rallied in Warsaw to protest against controversial new court reforms they see as a threat to judicial independence. Police said around 4,500 people attended the demonstration [...]

Byline: RICK LYMAN WARSAW -- Poland, always eager to close the gap with its western neighbors, has developed yet another symptom of contemporary Europeanness: A growing chunk of voters alienated [...]

Byline: Nick Dorman A rising star of Ukip poses for a snap with a Polish far-right leader -- who defended Hitler and said women are too stupid to vote. Przemek [...]

In a matter of weeks, the new right-wing government in Poland has seen its popularity plunge. But it's got four more years to go. WARSAW -- Until recently, Poland was [...]

WARSAW, May 26, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Poland's ruling Civic Platform (PO) and opposition Law and Justice (PIS) parties each took 19 seats in the European parliament after the [...]

Text of report in English by Polish national independent news agency PAP Warsaw, 24 November: The ruling Civic Platform (PO) won the Sunday [21 November] local assembly ballot having won [...]

Text of report in English by Polish national independent news agency PAP Warsaw, 21 November: Poland has chosen the future, we've won, Sejm speaker Grzegorz Schetyna said Sunday [21 November] [...]

Text of report in English by Polish national independent news agency PAP Warsaw, 17 November: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski suggested that the leader of the Polish main opposition party, Jaroslaw [...]