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Almost two months after winning a parliamentary majority in October’s elections, a coalition of three groups – the centrist Civic Coalition (KO), centre-right Third Way (Trzecia Droga) and The Left ...

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Hundreds of classic Polish films have been made available to watch legally for free online as part of a project funded by the European Union and Poland’s culture ministry. Nearly 4,000 🇵🇱 films: ...

Poland has NATO’s third-largest military and the alliance’s largest in Europe, newly released figures show. The Polish armed forces contain 216,100 personnel, according to NATO’s estimates for this ...

As Poles move away from the church – in particular the urban young, but also some older believers in the Catholic small-town heartlands – a deeply religious country wrestles with its own identity. The ...

Article 197 of the Polish criminal code defines rape as “subject[ing] another person to sexual intercourse by force, illegal threat or deceit”. This definition does not work. Not only do most ...

Poland will spend the equivalent of 4.12% of its GDP on defence this year, which is the highest level among NATO members and more than double the alliance’s guideline of 2%. The figure – part of ...