Poland is set to expand its centralised online appointment booking system to cover all specialist care, and clinics that refuse to join could face fines, under new rules proposed by the health ministry. Pixabay LicenseImage by Julio César Velásquez Mejía from Pixabay Under the proposal, all healthcare providers would have to publish and regularly update their appointment schedules on the Central Electronic
Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski has won the best director prize at the 79th Cannes Film Festival for 'Fatherland', a drama inspired by the life of German Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. Paweł Pawlikowski accepts the Best Director award for 'Fatherland' during the closing ceremony of the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.EPA/TERESA SUAREZ The film follows Mann,
Two senior House Democrats have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding answers over a US visa issued to former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, who is wanted in Poland on 26 criminal charges. Zbigniew Ziobro at his swearing-in as justice minister at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, November 2019.REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo Gregory Meeks and James
Poland has imposed a five-year entry ban on Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, with Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski saying he poses a threat to public order. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.EPA/ABIR SULTAN "He is a chauvinist and an attention-seeker, and as such he is a threat to public order in Poland", Sikorski told
Poland on Thursday launched formal proceedings to ban Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering the country after international criticism of a video showing him mocking detained pro-Palestinian activists, including Polish citizens. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.דוד דנברג, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said on X that he
Poland’s health ministry is preparing rules to track doctors’ pay more closely as wage costs strain hospital budgets. Pixabay LicenseImage by Julio César Velásquez Mejía from Pixabay The proposed changes would allow the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System (AOTMiT) to collect more detailed data on doctors’ earnings and hospital labor costs. At present, hospitals and
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called on his foreign and justice ministers to brief their American counterparts on the criminal charges facing Zbigniew Ziobro, a senior figure in the previous government, who is now in the United States. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk chairs a Cabinet meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday.PAP/Radek Pietruszka Speaking before a Cabinet
Poland's prime minister said on Monday there is no alternative to Polish-American and European-American friendship and cooperation, as he attended the signing of a deal to establish an authorised servicing centre for Abrams tank engines in the country. Prime Minister Donald Tusk (left), Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz (right) and Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk (centre) at
Poland's National Security Bureau said Saturday that changes to U.S. military rotation schedules in Europe are linked to a broader reorganization, including the planned withdrawal of a cavalry regiment from Germany, and do not directly affect Poland. Photo:PAP/Tomasz Waszczuk The bureau, known by its Polish acronym BBN, said the changes are connected to the planned withdrawal of
The Polish economy grew 3.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, after expanding 4.1 percent in the final quarter of 2025, the country’s statistics office said on Thursday in a flash estimate. Pixabay LicenseImage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The figure was below a consensus forecast of 3.6 percent by economists polled by state news agency PAP. The Polish statistics office is expected to report full first-quarter data on June 1. Poland's gross domestic
