Oct 15, 2024 · Poland’s government has approved plans for a tough new migration strategy that will include the possibility to temporarily suspend the acceptance of asylum claims if “immigrants threaten to destabilise the state”.

Jan 13, 2025 · Before the Holocaust, Poland was home to around 3.5 million Jews, roughly 10% of the country’s population. Now, however, the community numbers only around 16,000, according to the most recent census. The question of lighting Hanukkah candles in public spaces came under discussion in December 2023, when a far-right MP with a long history of antisemitism, Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation ...

Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Senior Lecturer in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge, where he works on Polish culture, politics and history.

Jul 16, 2024 · In March 2022, a new Homeland Defence Act set a target of doubling the size of Poland’s armed forces to 300,000 personnel, including 250,000 professional soldiers and 50,000 territorials. That year saw the highest number of new recruits since the end of compulsory military service.. The then-defence minister, Mariusz Błaszczak, declared at the time that “the Polish army will become the ...

Dec 11, 2024 · A second hypothesis is that, as with Warsaw, the destruction of Jasło was German revenge for the audacity of the local resistance. On the night of 5-6 August 1943, five members of the Home Army broke into the town’s prison – the largest in Subcarpathia – disarmed the guards, and freed 66 Polish political prisoners.. All the partisans escaped, and the success of these “Slavic subhumans ...

Jan 3, 2025 · Poland’s minimum hourly wage has, for the first time, surpassed the federal minimum wage in the United States. On 1 January, the minimum wage in Poland rose to 30.50 zloty per hour before tax, which at the average exchange rate so far this year is $7.35.

Oct 3, 2024 · During the same event, WB Group also signed a contract with Korean defence procurement agency DAPA to supply Warmate 3 loitering munitions. “These are reliable strike systems, combat-proven during high-intensity conflict,” said the company in a statement.

Jan 27, 2025 · By Stuart Dowell. For Anna Odi, home is a place most would consider unimaginable. She has lived her entire life within the grounds of Auschwitz, the former German-Nazi concentration camp, surrounded by its dark history, in a former SS administration building that now forms part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

Nov 18, 2024 · According to the most recent Polish national census, Silesian is used by around 460,000 people as their main tongue at home, mainly in Silesia itself, a historical region in southwest Poland.. However, it is not officially recognised as a language in Poland, with many instead perceiving Silesian as a dialect of Polish.This year, the ruling coalition passed a bill to recognise Silesian as a ...

Jan 16, 2025 · Meanwhile, a bakery in the city of Gdynia decided to go one better than AI and made an actual challah in the shape of a crocodile. “Kacper baked a challahcrocodile and he’s sad because no one congratulated him yet,” wrote the Chlebostacja bakery in a social media post that has over 15,000 reactions on Facebook.