"Rzeczpospolita" informs about the case of a Polish woman from Great Britain, whose operation the National Health Fund did not want to finance. The case was settled in court, and the judgment gives a clear idea of when and in which case you can use the EHIC.more
Cigarettes sold in Canada will have compulsory print about the harms of smoking, to be found on every cigarette in a packet, the Canadian health ministry announced on Wednesday. This is a world first.more
New legislation prohibiting participation in terrorist organisations takes effect in Sweden from today. According to the authorities in Stockholm, this fulfils Turkey's last condition on the road to NATO.more
The European Union and the US will develop a joint code of conduct on AI artificial intelligence, it was agreed after a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) concluded yesterday in Lulea, northern Sweden, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in attendance.more
Home Office officials who disagree with the government's plan to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda are threatening to go on strike to block it, the Daily Express reported.more
The Polish tax office checks its taxpayers on Facebook, Instagram and commercial platforms, Law.pl reports. By browsing photos and advertisements, the tax office looks for information about people who do not pay taxes, underestimate them, run businesses without registration or treat holiday expenses as business travel expenses.more
Albanians are clearly the largest group of foreign nationals in British prisons, with one in seven prisoners with non-British nationality already Albanian, the Daily Telegraph writes today, citing Department of Justice statistics.more
Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster continues to insist on stationary controls at the border with Poland. Schuster dismissed concerns that the controls could lead to traffic jams and disruption of the EU internal market. more
A loophole allowing retailers to give free vape samples to children is set to be closed under government plans to curb their use among young people.more
"Twitter will be expelled from the EU if its rules are violated," said French Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, responsible for digital transformation and telecommunications, in an interview with France Info television.more
The UK Home Office plans to deport more than 3,000 illegal immigrants a month from the beginning of next year, according to an internal document revealed yesterday by The Guardian newspaper.more
The Senate of the US state of Connecticut decided on Friday to acquit 12 people convicted 370 years ago in the witch trials. Expressions of regret for the "grossly unfair" sentence were also voted, the AP news agency reported.more
Plans to abolish fixed-term tenancies in England would "decimate" the student housing market, landlords have warned.
The National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) said a lack of certainty properties would be available at the start of the academic year could cause "chaos".more
EU regulations are intended to eliminate short-term renting 'on the black', i.e. without taxes, announced Leon Kozminski Academy expert Dr Ewa Kiczmachowska.more
The French government is tightening the rules, banning domestic flights for alternatives shorter than 2.5 hours by train. The regulations came into force on Tuesday, but we will go further, Transport Minister Clement Beaune announced.more
3,793 illegal immigrants entered the UK in the first three months of this year, down 20 per cent on the same period last year, the UK Home Office reported yesterday.more
From today, smoking marijuana in the red light district of Amsterdam is punishable by a fine of 100 euros. The ban on smoking grass in the very center of the city is to reduce nuisance for the inhabitants of the capital of the Netherlands.more
Foreign students coming to the UK from January next year will no longer be able to bring dependent family members to the UK, Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced yesterday.more
Drinkers will get cheaper wine and greater variety under plans to scrap retained European Union laws affecting the British wine industry, the Government has said.more
It is possible to report any case concerning a living perpetrator of pedophilia - emphasizes the Commission for Pedophilia in an appeal addressed to victims of sexual abuse in the People's Republic of Poland by clergy and lay people working in the Church. The list of over 100 perpetrators was recently published by "Rzeczpospolita".more
UK has announced a new package of economic sanctions on Russia. Eighty-six individuals and companies have been covered, Sky News reported yesterday.more