The EU executive launched an unprecedented process on Wednesday to suspend Poland’s voting rights in the European Union after two years of dispute over judicial reforms that Brussels says undermine Polish courts’ independence. The European Commission, the guardian of EU law, will now ask the other EU governments to declare that Poland’s changes to the judiciary constitute “a clear risk of a serious breach” of EU values -- especially the rule of law.

Warsaw, Poland (AP) -- Poland's defense minister said Thursday that a plane crash that killed the nation's president in 2010 in Russia was preceded by two explosions on board, calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to "take responsibility for what happened.

The European Union is engaged in a two-front fight for its own survival. By George Friedman.

Mateusz Morawiecki gives first interview since being nominated as Beata Szydło’s replacement.

Critics say the new legislation threatens judicial independence, and is little different from similar measures that were rejected last summer.

Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, an international banker and favorite of the governing party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, will take the top post.

Polish Defence Minister Antoni Macierewicz has signed a contract for delivery of Warmate drones to the Polish army. On 20 November Polish WB Group was awarded a PLN 100 million (USD20 million) contract for the supply of Warmate Micro Combat Unmanned Aircraft System to the Polish Army. According to the agreement signed with the armed forces, 100 sets of short-range combat unmanned aircraft systems will be delivered. Each set consists of 10 drones.

A hot scandal broke out in Poland a few days ago unveiling the mechanisms the so-called “democratic opposition” applies in the countries that push their own agenda and do not listen to their Western “friends." By Alexander Shtorm.

Press release Barons Wroclaw Baseball Club After 15 years of trying’s final Wroclaw baseball community gets a brand new, fully

he Polish environment minister has claimed Poland is fully compliant with the EU over controversial logging in one of Europe’s last areas of primeval forest after it was threatened with fines of at least €100,000 a day if it refused to end the practice. At a press conference on Tuesday Jan Szyszko, Poland’s environment minister, insisted Poland was in “100 per cent compliance with European Commission recommendations” over management of the Bialowieza Forest.

A leading figure in the U.S. white nationalist movement said Wednesday that he hasn't received government confirmation of his reported ban from entering more than two dozen European countries. Poland's state-run news agency PAP says Polish authorities banned Richard Spencer from entering 26 countries in Europe's visa-free Schengen area for five years. The news agency cited unnamed sources close to Poland's Foreign Ministry.

Poland has been given two weeks to stop illegal deforestation in the Unesco-protected Białowieża forest or face fines of at least €100,000 a day. In a precedent-setting ruling that will echo across the EU, the European court of justice ordered Poland to show it was acting lawfully in the ancient woodland, or face a €36.5m (£32m) annual penalty.

Franciszek Kornicki, winner of “The People’s Spitfire Pilot” title this year , has died a month before his 101st birthday. The news of his death was announced to the Polish Press Agency by his son Richard.

As right-wing populists enter government, they have violent radical groups to thank—and to fear.

Israel called a far-right march that took place in Warsaw “a dangerous march of extreme and racist elements,” and urged Polish authorities to act against the organizers Monday. The Independence Day march Saturday was organized by groups that trace their roots to radical nationalist, pre-World War II anti-Semitic groups.

Poland wants to avoid the ‘ideological censorship’ of Christian traditions in the European Union, according to Prime Minister Beata Szydlo. Speaking at a conference organized by the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Szydlo emphasized her party’s opposition to Muslim immigration.

Under the new regulations, cannabis from imported plants can be used to make prescription drugs at Polish pharmacies. This kind of medicine will, however, have to be first registered with the Office for Registration of Medicinal Products. The Polish Pharmaceutical Chamber said that pharmacists are ready to make cannabis-based prescription drugs. They will also have access to special courses if they require further training.

Dziady, Halloween’s Polish counterpart, has a rich tradition dating back to old Slavic times. Rather than Jack-O’-Lanterns, it’s linked to Karaboshka masks, the great literature of the Romantic era and, by some, to the Greek god Dionysus. Read on to find out what this grave custom is about and what place it holds in the universe of Poles.

The Polish government has expressed strong objections to plans by American white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at a far-right conference in Warsaw in November, but did not say if it would prevent him from entering the country. Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski described Spencer as someone “who defames what happened during World War II, defames the Holocaust.”

The Russian foreign ministry has called on the Ukrainian and Polish governments to stop the vandalism of Soviet era war memorials and cemeteries.  Speaking to the Federal Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Consulate Department Alexei Utkin said they were paying “special attention” to protecting Russian and Soviet military gravesites abroad.