The German press is divided in the assessment of the agreement that the EU and the United Kingdom concluded yesterday regarding the Brexit. Some newspapers believe that this is a breakthrough, others - that little has changed. However, no one disputes the fact that now everything depends on voting in the House of Commons.more

In Rome, a plaque commemorating the poet, essayist and journalist Jerzy Hordyński (1919-1998), who was one of the most colorful figures of the Italian Polish community, was unveiled on Friday. The ceremony took place on the 100th anniversary of his birth.more

Cheese, wine, olives and many other European goods will be subject to a price hike in the US after President Donald Trump made good on his threat to impose tariffs on a record $7.5 billion worth of European products.more

Poor air quality caused about 400,000 premature deaths in Europe in 2016, the most recent year data is available, and almost every city-dwelling European is exposed to pollution levels that exceed healthy levels, according to a report on Wednesday.more

43 percent Poles believe that Great Britain will stay in the European Union, despite plans related to Brexit, and 44 percent he thinks the British will leave the EU on October 31, according to an online survey by the international research center, Kantar.more

Rome, one of Europe's most traffic-clogged cities and home to thousands of ancient outdoor monuments threatened by pollution, plans to ban diesel cars from the centre by 2024, its mayor has said.more

The European Labour Authority is the new EU agency that will contribute to fostering fairness and mutual trust in the Internal Market by ensuring that EU labour rules are enforced in a fair, simple and effective way.more

The Prime Minister of Great Britain Boris Johnson assures that he will conduct the agreement negotiated on Thursday on Brexit by the British parliament - said today the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.more

A survey commissioned by the Shell oil corporation among German youth showed that more than half of this social group did not trust the government. more

Parcel firm Hermes has halted work at a depot in eastern Germany after two male workers died within hours of each other and a third was taken ill.more

Australian airline Qantas Airways will test 20-hour direct flights from New York and London to Sydney this weekend, starting with mostly empty planes of employees, according to Bloomberg.more

The Doodle, which shows a woman climbing in the snow surrounded by mountains, celebrates 41 years since Rutkiewicz became the third woman in history to ascend the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, on October 16 1978.more

In 7-8 hours everything should be clear about Brexit; Negotiations are ongoing, everything is going well, but everything is possible with our British partners, said the head of the European Council Donald Tusk today.more

Police in Spain said Wednesday they arrested 51 people across Catalonia overnight after violent protests over the jailing of nine separatist leaders for their role in a failed 2017 independence bid.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces in northeast Syria needed to end, a spokeswoman for Johnson's office said.more

Police in Drenthe have found a man and six adult children aged 16 to 25 living in the cellar of an isolated farmhouse 'waiting for the end of time', broadcaster RTV Drenthe said on Tuesday.more

EU ministers for European affairs are trying to overcome the stalemate regarding the opening of accession negotiations for Northern Macedonia and Albania. Although most countries are for such a step, the opposition of several capitals, especially Paris, may prevent it.more

Ryanair has been ordered to carry out emergency checks on a number of its aircraft after cracks were found on certain Boeing 737 NG model.more

The Coca-Cola group in Hungary has been fined by the Pristian poviat (province) office for posters showing homosexual couples - the daily Magyar Hirlap reported, citing Index.hu.more

A 22-year-old Polish woman abducted from Friday to Saturday in the Netherlands was released by German anti-terrorists. A police spokesman in Cologne said yesterday that three impetuous people, two Poles and the Czech Republic, were in detention.more

The EU has extended sanctions against those responsible for the chemical attack on Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom and people associated with the Syrian regime whose work allowed the use of chemical weapons in Syria.more

The goal of the current Turkish offensive in Syria is to control the 30 km wide Syrian border zone from the city of Ain al-Arab (Kurdish Kobane) in the west to the city of Hasaka in the east, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.more

The head of Austrian Christian Democrats and probably again Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with the German "Bild am Sonntag" that some parts of Europe have become less safe for Jews.more

Michel Barnier has warned EU ambassadors that the latest negotiations with Boris Johnson's government have been "difficult", with it appearing increasingly unlikely that agreement can be found by the time of an EU summit later this week.more

Nearly 9,000 Poles who intend to vote in elections to the Seym and Senate have registered in Spain. Voting takes place in nine precinct electoral commissions.more

In front of the buildings of two commissions in Stockholm, organized at the embassy and consulate, there were long queues this afternoon. The waiting time for voting in elections to the Seym and Senate was about 1.5 hours.more

In Belgium, with just over 11 million inhabitants, thousands of Poles went to the polls in Brussels and other Belgian cities on Sunday to vote in parliamentary elections to the Seym and Senate. In the afternoon, queues formed before polling stations.more

At the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Toronto, elections to the Polish Seym and Senate took place on Saturday. Canadian Polonia gladly used online voting this year. Radio broadcasts and help from Polish parishes helped.more

Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Israel Marek Magierowski intervened on the article on the website of the American film site Deadline, in which there was a wording that could mean that Irena Sendler was opposed to the "Polish Nazi occupation". Deadline rewritten the sentence after the intervention.more

Poles in Hungary are actively participating in parliamentary elections today. There is a queue of about one hundred people in front of the Polish Embassy in Budapest.more

Poles living in Portugal and tourists from Poland entitled to vote will be able to take part in the elections outside Lisbon for the first time - in Porto, in the north of the country. Record numbers of people registered in the Seym and Senate for voting in both cities.more