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For eight years, the president of the Polish Football Association, Zbigniew Boniek, lived well with every government. A sentence on Twitter was enough to start a war about who will take power in the richest sports union, "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports today.more

The Department of Foreign Affairs has updated the Government's Green List of countries where you can travel without having to restrict your movements on your return. This list, which comes into effect from Monday 21 September, includes seven destinations. These are Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.more

The British government published yesterday the text of the amendment to the controversial draft bill on the British internal market. This is the result of agreements with those members of the Conservative Party who objected to the bill.more

Belarus' President, beleaguered by six weeks of large protests calling for his resignation, on Thursday announced he was putting troops on high alert and closing some of the country's borders.more

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday according to which the rule of law continues to deteriorate in Poland.more

US presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the British government yesterday that the fate of the US trade deal with the UK will depend on respect for the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland. According to Biden, London's politics threaten the agreement.more

Kinga Duda is a social advisor to his father - President Andrzej Duda. According to the information on the president's website, she was appointed an adviser in August this year.more

Dominic Raab says the UK sees no 'plausible alternative' to Russian intelligence having carried out the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny.more

Polish-Americans for Trump group made an appeal to the Polish community to support the election campaign of the president seeking re-election. It indicates that he has met, inter alia, such postulates of Poles as strengthening of security, including energy security, and visa waiver. more

Barbados has announced its intention to remove the Queen as its head of state and become a republic next year. The Caribbean island said it wants "full sovereignty" by the time it celebrates its 55th anniversary of independence from the UK in November 2021.more

Yesterday, the parliamentary committees of internal affairs and foreign affairs submitted for further work a draft act on the ratification of the agreement between Poland and Great Britain, which guarantees Polish and British citizens living in the other country the right to vote and stand for local elections.more

Ireland yesterday announced a new "green list" of countries from which arrival will not be covered by a 14-day pandemic quarantine. Countries with an infection rate of less than 25 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past two weeks have appeared on the list.more

Almost 40 percent of Russian citizens think that Russia should regain its status of a superpower, suggests a recent opinion poll by the Russia Public Opinion Research Center (WCIOM). more

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted a picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says he is breathing on his own.more

A proposed law giving Boris Johnson's government the power to override parts of the Brexit agreement with the EU has passed its first hurdle in the Commons.more

Poles believe that the culturally speaking Germans are closer to them than the Russians, according to a new CPRDiP report. The study also shows that 79% of people perceive Russia as a country hostile to Poland. Poles - they are also very critical of Vladimir Putin's policy.more

The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, isolates himself due to a suspected coronavirus in one of his household members, a spokesman for the politician said on Monday. So far, there are no indications that the Starmer himself has symptoms of the infection.more

The Polish Senate will soon begin work on reforming the way officials are paid. According to "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna", the ambitious plan is to be presented at the earliest next year.more

Alyaksandr Lukashenka asks Vladimir Putin for help, reports "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" today, announcing talks between the presidents of Belarus and Russia in Sochi. According to the Russian daily, they will discuss "the price Minsk is willing to pay for Moscow's support".more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Polish ambassador to Great Britain Arkady Rzegocki laid wreaths yesterday at the monument commemorating the pilots participating in the Battle of Great Britain, whose 80th anniversary is celebrated this year. more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under fire from two of his predecessors over his plan to renege on parts of his Brexit Withdrawal Agreement with the EU.more

China is still most likely months away from mass producing a vaccine that is safe for public use. But the country is using the prospect of the drug’s discovery in a charm offensive aimed at repairing damaged ties and bringing friends closer in regions China deems vital to its interests.more

On Friday Boris Johnson had a Zoom call with about 250 of his MPs, in which he said the party could not return to "miserable squabbling" over Euromore

Poland and Lithuania have urged the UK to take a lead in the political crisis in Belarus by urgently imposing sanctions against officials responsible for last month’s fraudulent presidential elections and demanding an international inquiry into the state’s repression.more

Shetland Islands Council has voted overwhelmingly in favour of looking into ways of obtaining financial and political independence from Scotland.more