Poland’s Grzegorz Bierecki has been elected chairman of the World Council of Credit Union at its conference in Ottawa, Canada.
Members of the World Council include regional and national credit union associations, cooperative associations and business service organizations in 101 countries, with some 200 million members worldwide.
Grzegorz Bierecki is the...
Poland's Ministry of the Interior has indicated that security officers made procedural errors allowing President Bronislaw Komorowski to be struck with an egg in Ukraine, Sunday.
“According to preliminary findings, appropriate procedures for protecting the most important state figures were not fully implemented,” the ministry concluded in a written statement...
Poland's ambassador to Israel has been summoned to Israel's Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem to explain the vote in parliament, which upheld the ban on kosher and halal slaughter.
Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor confirmed to Polish Radio by email that Ambassador Jacek Chodorowicz met with officials on Monday in the Israeli...
Two Polish hitch-hikers were killed on Wednesday night when a van ran over the pair while they were reportedly lying down in the middle of a road in Seelow, east Germany.
The accident occurred at about 10 pm on Wednesday, and the victims were a 30-year-old man from Lower Silesia,...
Forty percent of Polish Roman Catholics attend Sunday mass, according to Poland’s Statistical Institute of the Catholic Church.
The annual count was carried out in the autumn of last year in all of the country’s 10,000 parishes and shows that church attendance has not changed since 2011 but has dropped...
Poland's president has awarded Agnieszka Radwanska, Jerzy Janowicz and Lukasz Kubot state honours for their success at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships.
“It was a Polish Wimbledon,” Bronislaw Komorowski said on Tuesday at the Belweder Palace where Radwanska, women's semi finalist, was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit, with Kubot...
Jerzy Janowicz has advanced to 17th place in the ATP World Tour rankings after reaching the semi-finals in Wimbledon last week.
However, the 22-year-old, who was previously World No. 24, told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that players should be wary about putting too much stock in how high an...
A report indicates that the number of foreign workers living illegally in Poland dropped by 23 percent in 2012. Between 2010, Poland's National Labour Inspectorate conducted approximately 6300 checks on firms with a large turnover of foreign employees.
Of the checks carried out in 2012, only 59 foreigners were found to...
Poland's foreign ministry says the fax sent by representatives of CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden asking for asylum does not conform to legal procedure and cannot be processed.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Bosacki said Tuesday, following an application for asylum by Snowden, currently believed to be a transit lounge in a...
Poland's Supreme Court upheld an appeal court verdict on Tuesday against a TV station that broadcast a miniature Polish flag being placed in a dog's excrement.
Judge Maciej Pacuda insisted that freedom of expression is not an absolute right, and is subject to limitations, in this case in connection with...
