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.

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.

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 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.

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 17, 2025 · President Andrzej Duda, who is aligned with Poland’s opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, has signed off on the government’s 2025 budget.However, he has also sent parts of the spending plans to the Constitutional Tribunal (TK), another PiS-aligned body, for assessment.

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 27, 2025 · The finale of Poland’s biggest charity fundraiser event has again broken its previous record, collecting over 178 million zloty (€42.2 million) by the end of Sunday.

Jan 15, 2025 · On Monday, the Biden administration announced that it was “acting decisively” to “ensure that US technology undergirds global AI use and that adversaries cannot easily abuse advanced AI”.. It divided countries around the world into three categories: 18 close allies that would face no new restrictions; a second tier of countries that will have a cap on how much advanced tech they can ...

Dec 13, 2024 · In May this year, prosecutors charged Niedzielski over the incident, claiming his actions constituted an “abuse of power” by “unlawfully processing personal data regarding the health of an identified person by revealing [the data] via mass media in an entry on the internet portal X.”. In its ruling today, the court agreed, finding Niedzielski guilty …