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Energy watchdog Ofgem said suppliers including Big Six firms British Gas, Npower and EDF overcharged customers £7.2million over seven years after failing to follow price protection rules.more

A month after the publication of the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal on abortion, more and more Polish women leave the country to terminate a threatened pregnancy abroad - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

Spanish and Portuguese economists and demographers believe teleworking will improve fertility rates in Europe. In their opinion, parents working from their homes will be more willing to decide about the next child.more

Two-thirds of Polish respondents retire because of age, 45 percent because of health, 28 percent because of the employer's attitude - according to the new, 7th round SHARE50 + survey in Europemore

TikTok has agreed to pay a proposed $92 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the company invaded user privacy. more

Beer drinkers are likely to retain pandemic habits of ordering online to drink at home even as coronavirus restrictions ease, the chief executive of the world’s largest brewer said on Thursday.more

The problem of insufficient physical activity in Poland concerns not only healthy people, but also sick people, incl. cardiological and oncological patients - say scientists from the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in a comprehensive report on health and physical activity.more

Vaccinating people in order of age is the fastest way to cut Covid-19 deaths in the next phase of the roll-out, say experts advising the UK government.more

About 40% of all fines handed out by police for breaches of Covid-19 laws since the start of the pandemic in England and Wales were issued in the most recent four-week period as police adopted a more hardline approach and “fatigue” with the rules set in.more

More than 68,700 people in Germany have died from or with coronavirus since the pandemic began a year ago. Yet many people in the country take a critical view of vaccinations, according to a new study. more

Two committees of the European Parliament organized a hearing on the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal, Julia Przyłębska, regarding the ban on eugenic abortion. EU MEPs were again accused of, inter alia, passivity towards human rights violations in Poland. "I call on the European Commission to move from words to deeds", appealed MEP Andrzej Halicki on behalf of the largest group in the Europmore

Face masks may not be required indoors in public places over the summer, one of England's deputy chief medical officers has suggested.more

Poles are still at the forefront of Europe when it comes to stockpiling, according to a study by the consulting company Deloitte. Almost half of us, the most in Europe, hunt for bargains. The interest in large brands is also diminishing to the benefit of the so-called store brands.more

The government will respond to a petition to make the day when all coronavirus restrictions could be removed a bank holiday after it was signed by more than 10,000 people. more

Mask wearing on public transport looks likely to be with us for some time. But the most recent figures from Transport for London (TfL) show there is still a significant minority that do not wear them. Commuters have also complained to me about maskless rail staff who also ignore social distance regulations.more

The Netherlands is extending its nighttime curfew for another three weeks in an attempt to further reduce the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but will also relax other measures, outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced Tuesday. more

The Swedish government is considering launching an investigation into irregularities in the adoption of children from abroad. According to the daily "Dagens Nyheter", many newborns were transferred to Sweden without their mother's consent.more

The prime minister announced his plan for England to be free of almost all restrictions by summer as he set out his four-step road map to lifting lockdown.more

It is impossible to talk about a standard Polish family today. Admittedly, a marriage with 1-2 children is invariably dominant, but more and more people remain childless or do not enter into marriage - explain the demographers.more

More than half of Italians do not lose hope in the difficult months of the pandemic and are already planning their summer holidays, the tourism industry reports.more

More than 17.6 million people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, official data showed on Sunday, as daily deaths and coronavirus cases slipped.more

While a quickening vaccine rollout has some U.S. officials predicting a return to normalcy by the end of this year, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said it’s “possible” the Covid-19 precaution of mask usage will linger into 2022. more

An outpouring of support from strangers is lifting up an Ohio woman who found herself in a very tough spot: Go to work to support her family but leave her children alone or stay with them and lose her job. more

Nearly 5,000 Hong Kong citizens have applied to live, work and study in the United Kingdom under a new visa scheme which opens up a path to British citizenship for people fleeing China’s crackdown in the former colony, The Times newspaper reported.more

54 percent of Poles are currently repaying loans or credits - according to the study of the National Debt Register. Nearly every third who have such obligations spends the borrowed money on the purchase of household appliances or audio and video devices.more