Thousands of backers of Poland's ruling conservative party marched in Warsaw on Sunday with the party leader to show their support for its policies amid a growing political conflict. The march, led by Law and Justice party head Jaroslaw Kaczynski, came a day after tens of thousands of government opponents demonstrated in Warsaw and elsewhere, saying the ruling party and its ally, President Andrzej Duda, are threatening democracy.

With attacks on the constitution, media and civil service, events have taken a dangerous turn. The country’s traditional friends should raise their voices. By Timothy Garton Ash.

The European Commission has launched a probe into policy changes in Poland that may clash with EU law. It is the first time such a move has been initiated by the EU against a member state. Speaking after a lengthy meeting of the EU executive on Wednesday, European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans said: "today we have decided that the (European) Commission will carry out a preliminary assessment on this matter under the rule of law framework."

Thousands of Poles marched through Warsaw on Saturday to protests against their new conservative government's plan to increase its surveillance powers, with some saying they feared Poland was following Hungary towards an "illiberal democracy." Since Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party took power in November, its moves to take more control of the judiciary and the media have divided Poland and raised alarm bells in the Europe Union...

The first unit of Polish troops in the newly created national guard could be stationed along the border with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad as early as this year. Polish defence officials confirmed three brigades would be sent to the country’s north east by the end of 2016. Fears over Russian expansionism have been heightened since the annexation of crimea in 2014.

A unique aerial journey with the photographer and cameraman Kacper Kowalski. It is an introduction to his latest photo book "Side Effects".

After a 2015 snowfall, the people of Wejherowo, Poland, were shocked to see that one of their statues had transformed into a tribute to Star Wars villain extraordinaire Darth Vader.

Would you like to get lost in the cold, with walls of ice so high that you can’t see above them? Then we have found your perfect holiday destination. Book your ticket to Zakopane in Poland, where people are loving this maze carved out of snow and living their dreams of swanning round an igloo palace (or getting stuck in an industrial freezer). It opened yesterday in the mountain resort around two hours from Krakow, and offers...

The German government reminded Poland on Wednesday that it doesn't control political speech within its borders, after Warsaw complained about a Düsseldorf carnival float which mocked the leader of its governing party. It's a potent image, especially for a group of Germans to make about their neighbours to the East. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice Party, dressed as a preening military dictator, places his booted foot on the head of a prostrate woman labelled "Poland".

The right-wing Polish weekly magazine wSieci (The Network) has caused outrage with its latest front cover. The publication features the image of a white woman, draped with the European Union flag, screaming as she is being groped and assaulted by dark skinned male arms. Twitter users have compared the images with fascist propaganda in Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, which used images of women being attacked by...

Jarosław Kaczyński has convinced Poland that it is threatened by a shadowy leftwing cabal –and become the country’s most powerful man. By Christian Davies. (Feb. 16)

Tens of thousands of Poles rallied in Warsaw on Saturday to protest moves by Poland's three-month-old conservative government which they say undermine freedoms and the constitution. (Feb. 27)

More than 70 years ago Yisrael Kristal was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Today he is the world's oldest man, at 112, Guinness World Records has announced. Kristal was born on September 15, 1903 in what is now Poland, but was western Russia at the time. His birth preceded the Wright brothers' first flight by three months. He lived through both world wars, surviving World War II in the Warsaw ghetto, until being sent to Auschwitz in 1944.

Let’s pioneer the provision of communal eating facilities! By Owen Hatherley.

Poland abandoned a pledge to shelter migrants under a European Union relocation agreement, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said, shifting her country’s stance a day after suicide bombers killed dozens of people in the bloc’s de-facto capital. Poland’s previous government agreed to host several thousand migrants under a deal forged by the EU’s 28 member states to address the hundreds of thousands of mostly...

The Polish government plans to demolish about 500 Soviet monuments throughout the country, head of the Institute of National Remembrance Lukasz Kaminsky said in an interview with online portal Onet.pl, the RBC news website reported Thursday. Kaminsky — whose institute is responsible for investigating crimes against the Polish nation — said that plans for the demolition of the monuments, would be sent to local authorities in the coming weeks.

Thousands of Poles took part in street demonstrations on Sunday to protest a possible tightening of the country's abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe. The rallies in Warsaw and other cities were held under the slogan "No to the torture of women" and came as the influential Roman Catholic Church launched a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

Two Russian warplanes flew simulated attack passes near a U.S. guided missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, the U.S. military said, with one official describing them as one of the most aggressive interactions in recent memory. The repeated flights by the Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes, which also flew near the ship a day earlier, were so close they created wake in the water, with 11 passes, the official said on Wednesday. The planes carried no visible weaponry, the official said.

The treasure hunters of Lower Silesia, Poland, believe that untold riches lie hidden in abandoned tunnels and bunkers. Could they be right?

An epic re-telling of the Warsaw uprising during the Second World War, following the story of a young soldier embroiled in the historic event – a stark reminder of the price his generation paid for the war. Brutal, and at times heart-wrenching, Warsaw 1944 is a war movie for the ages.