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The bottom half of earners will lose any gains from next week’s lowering of national insurance payments when their income tax bills go up in April, a leading thinktank has warned.more

There are more and more economic migrants in Poland, employment of foreigners will increase in 2024. In 2025, Indians, Georgians and Uzbeks will arrive in Poland in greater numbers, the Gremi Personal agency forecasts in its analysis.more

Abusive men in England and Wales will walk free from court under a new sentencing policy that flies in the face of ministers’ claims to take domestic violence seriously, an independent government watchdog has said.more

In December, assessments of the situation in the country are slightly better than those recorded a month earlier, but the percentage of Poles predicting a deterioration of the situation in the country over the next year has increased by 3 percentage points, to 30% - according to the December CBOS survey.more

Large numbers of safety-conscious Irish householders keep the lights on when they leave the house in the hope of fooling burglars into thinking they are still at home. Others leave clothes hanging on the line to give the impression they are in the home. And some put their valuables in the attic when they are on holiday, according to a survey of the various methods used by people to keep burglarsmore

Kerbside collections for small electrical goods such as toasters and hairdryers could be rolled out across the UK from 2026 under government proposals to boost recycling.more

Fireworks and firecrackers will be banned in many cities on New Year's Eve. Throughout Germany, the ban on pyrotechnics applies all year round near places such as churches, hospitals, orphanages and nursing homes, as well as thatched houses, reports dpa.more

Keep gift wrappers at home - the authorities of the Eternal City have appealed to Romans. In this way, they want to avoid overflowing rubbish containers during and after Christmas. Those who take the boxes and cartons to special points will receive a lottery ticket. It is possible to win shopping vouchers.more

The number of thefts in Dutch shops is on the rise and is the highest in ten years, INretail, the retail industry organisation, reported yesterday. INretail estimates this year's damage from this to be more than €2 billion.more

Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Holownia remains the leader of the trust ranking, but his score is worse than in November. The biggest drop, however, concerns Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Another representative of the new government has benefited, according to the latest IBRiS poll for Onet.more

The resident population in Poland will continue to decline. In 2060, it will reach 32.9 million, according to the Central Statistical Office.more

The Sejm and the Senate of the new term are rated much better by Poles than the previous parliament. For the first time since November 2019, the proportion of positive assessments of the Sejm exceeds the proportion of negative ones, according to the latest CBOS poll.more

There are private centres in Russia offering 'treatment' for homosexuality through conversion therapy, the US daily Washington Post wrote yesterday. People who have been detained in these centres describe that they function like prisons, the charges are beaten and humiliated.more

Rising numbers of women are experiencing domestic abuse at Christmas, with calls to helplines still higher than pre-pandemic levels due to the cost of living crisis.more

Slowing inflation is a sign that this year's holidays will be easier on Poles' wallets than last year's. This translates into bolder plans for this period and for the upcoming winter holidays. According to OLX data, following the improvement in mood, interest in accommodation during Christmas is growing.more

Only 40 per cent of German citizens feel free to express themselves, according to the latest survey by the Allensbach Institute, which has been asking Germans since 1953 how free they feel to express their opinions. This is the lowest result since the start of the survey, the NiUS portal highlighted.more

Friday is set to be the busiest day of 2023 for cash machine withdrawals, cash access and ATM network Link predicts. Link said that, with a four-day break ahead, comprised of the two weekend days followed by two bank holidays, ATM use is expected to peak on Friday – the last working day before Christmas for many people.more

83.3 per cent of gainfully employed people declare greater or lesser satisfaction with their work. The same number believe that the tasks they perform are important and meaningful, according to the CBOS survey. It was indicated that 67 per cent of those working do not have the option of working remotely at their main workplace.more

In 2022, a record number of suicides were committed in Spain - 4,227, 17 per cent more than before the Covid-19 pandemic, which some experts believe may have contributed to the increase.more

According to the census conducted on 21 March 2021, there were 287,360 Jews living in England and Wales on census day and they accounted for 0.5 per cent of the permanent population of these parts of the UK, the UK statistics agency ONS reported.more

Teachers in England do not have to comply with requests from students who claim to be of a different gender than their biological gender, and parents must generally be informed by schools if their children question their gender identity, according to guidance published today.more

Legal abortion - without having to give a reason - is supported by 57 per cent of those surveyed by IPSOS for More in Common Poland, reported 'Rzeczpospolita'.more

The Church of England began giving blessings to same-sex couples yesterday. This follows a compromise decision in February this year, which maintained the doctrine that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, but agreed to bless single-sex couples.more

Sadiq Khan has warned that the Government’s changes to migration rules could cause a “full-blown recruitment crisis” in vital sectors of London’s economy.more

Although interest in politics has been average since 1989 and has not undergone major changes, it has changed significantly among people aged 65 or over - from a dominant lack of interest in political life to a significant share of people with a high or very high level of interest in politics - according to the survey. more