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Poland's PM Donald Tusk to seek confidence vote after election loss

The result of Sunday's presidential runoff leaves Tusk politically weakened and there are questions about whether his multi-party coalition can survive to the end of its term in late 2027.

02/06/2025

Europe News

Karol Nawrocki’s win pitches Poland into EU ideas battleground

Conservative Karol Nawrocki's knife-edge victory by 50.89% of the votes in Poland’s nail-biting weekend presidential runoff election, against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, set the stage for a revivified right wing and for an uncomfortable cohabitation with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

02/06/2025

Europe News

Who is Poland's newly elected president, Karol Nawrocki?

The conservative candidate beat liberal Rafał Trzaskowski with a narrow 50.89% of the vote in the presidential election runoff on Sunday.

02/06/2025

Europe News

Conservative Nawrocki wins Poland's presidential election

The presidential runoff pitted Trzaskowski, a liberal pro-EU politician, against Nawrocki, a conservative historian backed by the right-wing Law and Justice party.

01/06/2025

Europe News

Voting begins in decisive presidential runoff in Poland

Poles began casting their ballots on Sunday in a decisive presidential runoff that could set the course for the nation’s political future and its relations with the European Union.

01/06/2025

Europe News

Polish presidential candidates hold their final campaign rallies

Polls will open on Sunday in a presidential election that will have major consequences for the future of the Polish government. Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and national conservative historian Karol Nawrocki are running neck and neck, according to opinion polls.

30/05/2025

Europe News

Poland's ties with US a key issue in Sunday's presidential runoff

Both of the candidates in Sunday's runoff have said they will seek the best possible relationship with the Trump administration while in office, particularly in the face of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

30/05/2025

Design

Manchester Museum is the European Museum of the Year 2025

The Manchester Museum has won the European Museum of the Year Award for creating “new spaces to foster deeper community connections and promote intercultural dialogue."

26/05/2025

Europe News

Thousands attend rival marches as Poland's presidential runoff nears

A week before the second round of the Polish presidential election, two marches in support of rival candidates took place in Warsaw.

25/05/2025

Europe News

Romania's president-elect meets Poland's Tusk and endorses Trzaskowski

Romanian President-elect Nicușor Dan met with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on Sunday morning before joining a march in support of Civic Coalition presidential election candidate Rafał Trzaskowski.

25/05/2025

Europe News

Polish presidential elections 2025 - who's ahead in the polls?

The second round of the Polish presidential election is set to be a tight contest between Civic Platform candidate Rafal Trzaskowski and Law and Justice-backed Karol Nawrocki.

25/05/2025

Europe News

Polish parliament votes to extend asylum suspension at Belarus border

The regulation, adopted in March, allows Polish authorities to temporarily suspend the asylum rights of migrants arriving in the country via Belarus.

21/05/2025

Europe News

Polish presidential vote: Trzaskowski and Nawrocki advance to runoff

Two main candidates have progressed to the second round of the Polish presidential election, with Trzaskowski at 31.2% and Nawrocki at 29.7% of the vote.

19/05/2025

Europe News

Exit polls: Trzaskowski to win Polish presidential vote first round

According to preliminary exit polls, the mayor of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski won the first round of the presidential election in Poland on Sunday, followed by Karol Nawrocki. The two politicians will face each other in the second round on 1 June.

18/05/2025

Europe News

Poland's Tusk says Russian hackers attacked ruling parties' websites

Tusk said the website of several parties in his governing coalition were targeted by the hackers, two days before the presidential election.

17/05/2025

Europe News

Poland blames Russia for arson attack on Warsaw shopping centre

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said the country would close the Russian consulate in Krakow in response.

12/05/2025

Poland

Anti-immigration protesters gather in Poland ahead of elections

The demonstration comes ahead of the first round of presidential elections on the 18 May, in which immigration is expected to play a key part.

11/05/2025

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Severe storms lash southern Poland, causing widespread damage

Violent storms swept across southern Poland on Sunday, bringing heavy hail, strong winds and flash flooding.

05/05/2025

The Road To Green

Coal or cool? Poland's energy sector in industrial transition mode

In partnership with The European Commission

Poland's energy sector has significantly reduced emissions of harmful pollutants in recent years. But after the revision of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, the country is still heavily relying on combustion plants.

30/04/2025

Europeans' Stories

War 3.0: Europe’s smart defence challenge

In the light of the war in Ukraine, Europe is seeking to adapt to new forms of conflict taking place far from the traditional frontlines.

29/04/2025

The Europe Conversation

NATO must show strength, but only US can halt Putin, Duda says

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Polish President Andrzej Duda stressed that deterrence, not fear, is NATO's best defence strategy.

28/04/2025

EuroVerify

No, Poland isn't importing 'fake asylum seekers'

Social media users and even Polish politicians have falsely claimed that a video shows a large group of migrants being secretly brought into Kraków at night.

28/04/2025

Europe News

'Many reject those he welcomed' - Polish LGBTQ+ community on pope

Pope Francis will be associated by many of the faithful with his support for marginalised groups. This approach - while converging with the Gospel in the most profound way - was not much reflected in the conservative teachings of the Church in Poland.

26/04/2025

Europe News

Ukraine will have to give way on some issues, Polish president says

In an exclusive interview with Euronews, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that only the United States has the power to stop Russia. He believes peace will require compromises on both sides, including from Ukraine.

24/04/2025

Poland

Poland condemns Russia's war in Ukraine: 'Don't you have enough land?'

In a wide-ranging speech to the lower house of the Polish parliament, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski crticised Russia's "fantasies of dominance".

23/04/2025

Europe News

Polish presidential elections 2025: who is ahead in the polls?

Support for Warsaw mayor and presidential favorite Rafal Trzaskowski has remained steady since the official start of the campaign in January, as Law and Justice-endorsed candidate Karol Nawrocki has lost ground to the far-right candidate, Slawomir Mentzen.

19/04/2025