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
Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Poland will move to record some same-sex marriages concluded abroad, while ruling out adoption rights. Image:Ian Taylor/Unsplash.com/CC0 Tusk said on Tuesday that the government would prepare a regulation allowing the transcription of same-sex marriage certificates into Poland’s civil registry. Transcription means entering a foreign civil status document, such as a marriage certificate, into
Poland has sent a diplomatic note to the US Embassy in Warsaw asking for the legal and factual basis for former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro's entry into the United States. Zbigniew Ziobro speaks at a Law and Justice (PiS) party conference in Katowice, Poland, on 25 October 2025.PAP/Art Service The foreign ministry made the move on Tuesday,
Poland's Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek has announced he will formally request the extradition of Zbigniew Ziobro – a former minister facing corruption charges – who confirmed on Sunday he is currently in the United States. Zbigniew Ziobro addresses supporters via video link from an undisclosed location at the Law and Justice (PiS) party headquarters in Warsaw, December 2025.PAP/Albert
