20 years ago - on April 25, 1998 - a concordat entered into force, concluded between the Holy See and the Republic of Poland, which as an international agreement regulates diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Poland.more
The parents of seriously ill toddler Alfie Evans will challenge a High Court ruling preventing them from taking him to Italy for further treatment. The family's lawyers told the BBC that a hearing has been scheduled at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday afternoon.more
A former Grenadier Guardsman who arrived in Britain aged seven after his parents fled the Nazis has been told he is not British enough for a UK passport. In a row which echoes the scandal of the Windrush Generation furore, grandad Tadeusz Polanski was told by the Home Office that he was not a British citizen.more
The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square was set to be unveiled today two years after a campaign to get female representation outside the Palace of Westminster began. A bronze statue of Millicent Fawcett will join eleven all-male statues including Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.more
The number of zero hour contracts in the UK labour market rose by around 100,000 last year according to the Office for National Statistics. The agency reported that in its latest survey of firms there were 1.8 million contracts that did not guarantee a minimum numbers of hours in the year to November 2017. more
India's cabinet on Saturday approved the death penalty for rapists of girls below the age of 12, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an emergency meeting in response to nationwide outrage in the wake of a series of cases.more
A British teenager hacked into a US security chief's home television and made the words "I own you" appear on screen, a court has heard. Kane Gamble, 18, rocked the US intelligence community when he blagged his way into top officials' accounts in a campaign of "cyber terrorism". more
Poland may find itself in the European Union on the side track as a result of the "illiberal reforms" introduced by the Law and Justice government, and also receive less funds from the next EU budget - warned the British weekly "The Economist".more
A judgment in the European Arrest Warrant case sent to the EU's Court of Justice in Luxembourg by the High Court because of concerns about the quality of the Polish justice system is likely within three months.more
The British organization Unseen has published a report summarizing the first year of operation of the Modern Slavery Helpline, a hotline on which suspicions of human trafficking can be reported. Poles are the second most frequently reported nationality, after Romanians.more
Decisions of the Polish authorities regarding increased felling in the Bialowieza Forest violate EU law - ruled on Tuesday the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg, pointing out that they can not be justified by the unprecedented gradation of the bark beetle.more
Domestic abuse victims, children and the elderly are among those at risk of losing their right to remain in Britain despite meeting the required criteria to stay, experts said.more
A west London council has unanimously voted in favour of creating a buffer zone around an abortion clinic to shield women from anti-abortion protesters, in a move that could pave the way for councils across the country to take similar action.more
The number of Britons taking up EU citizenship of another member state more than doubled in the year of the Brexit referendum, official EU figures show.more
Artist Hugleikur Dagsson has learned he cannot sell T-shirts with the word "HÚH!" on them, as someone took out a trademark on the onomatopoeia in 2016more
The new provision on the banning of unjustified geoblocking in online sales is at the heart of the EU Commission's aspiration and effort to create a real within the European Union.more
Residents of EU countries outside the euroland pay very high fees today for transferring funds in euro to other EU countries. The EC wants to change it introducing provisions that will significantly reduce them.more