Polityka

The British opposition Labor Party yesterday withdrew from one of its flagship pre-election promises - allocating £28 billion annually to green investments. This is another case of British politicians making promises to fight climate change more realistic.more

Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast yesterday that Moscow is not interested in invading "Poland, Latvia or anywhere else." The interview that the dictator gave to Tucker Carlson, an American commentator known for his pro-Russian and pro-Putin views, was recorded on Tuesday in Moscow and used by Kremlin propaganda.more

The Afghan asylum seeker had been operating in Great Britain as a Russian spy for years, working for the British Foreign Office and probably also for the British secret services, The Times revealed.more

Dentists who set up practice in areas of England with poor access to NHS care will be offered a £20,000 bonus. The government has also announced higher payments for dentists who take on new patients and teeth-cleaning in schools as part of a plan to expand levels of dental care.more

The construction of HS2 high-speed rail - the largest ongoing infrastructure investment in Europe - in its truncated version, namely from London to Birmingham, offers a very poor benefit-cost ratio, the Public Accounts Committee assessed in a report released yesterday.more

Britain said today that it will extend duty-free trade with Ukraine for almost all goods until 2029, ensuring Kiev will continue to enjoy favorable trade conditions after Russia's invasion.more

Due to King Charles III's cancer diagnosis, the weekly audience in which the monarch receives the prime minister will be held by phone rather than in person, Rishi Sunak's office announced yesterday.more

Due to Donald Trump's possible victory in the US presidential election, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is abandoning the idea of holding elections to the House of Commons in November and is leaning towards holding them in October, The Sun daily reported.more

The presence of Nigel Farage, for years a leading advocate of Britain's exit from the European Union, at yesterday's inauguration of the new faction of the parliamentary club of the ruling Conservative Party increased speculation that he could return to the ranks of this group or to active politics.more

The Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Ireland, Rishi Sunak and Leo Varadkar, emphasized yesterday that the priority for Northern Ireland must now be the efficient management of current affairs, and not thinking about constitutional changes, i.e. unification with Ireland.more

23.5 percent respondents believed that Rafał Trzaskowski would be the best candidate of the current ruling majority for president if it put forward one candidate - according to a SW Research survey for the rp.pl portal.more

49.3 percent respondents were unable to indicate who should be the PiS candidate for president in the next elections in 2025. Mateusz Morawiecki received the most votes among the mentioned candidates - according to a SW Research survey for the rp.pl portal.more

A £1,000 cash incentive and a campaign to raise the profile of childcare workers in England are part of government plans to recruit more staff. Thousands of extra nursery workers and childminders are needed, as the expansion of funded hours begins. More than 100,000 working parents of two-year olds have already registered for the April rollout, according to the Department for Education (DfE).more

Michelle O'Neill from the republican Sinn Fein party became the First Minister (Prime Minister) of Northern Ireland yesterday. It has never happened before that a politician from a party seeking the unification of Ireland has become the head of the government of this province.more

Millions of households around the country are facing a big hike in payments after the government reportedly gave approval for above inflation council tax rises. The measure will bring in £2 billion extra money in a tax bombshell this spring.more

Representing a London constituency with a large Jewish community, Conservative MP Mike Freer announced yesterday that he would be retiring from politics at the end of his current term because of the threats he had received, which included the arson attack on his MP's office.more

The Presidents of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the EC, Usula Von der Leyen, welcomed the EU summit agreement on €50 billion in aid for Ukraine. At the same time, they stressed the need for EU countries to increase the supply of arms and ammunition to the country fighting Russian aggression.more

The Chinese Ministry of State Security has published a list of 10 reasons why the services may summon a citizen for tea on suspicion of intelligence activities. This is the first time that authorities have formally used the euphemism meaning a summons for questioning or initiation of an investigation.more

Foreign nationals could have to live in the UK for 10 years before qualifying for social housing in England, under government plans. Ministers are considering introducing the requirement alongside a need for all applicants to show a two-year connection to the local area. They have also announced new powers to ban people from social homes for up to five years for anti-social behaviour.more

I decided to raise the price of visas because it turns out that Polish visas were among the cheapest in the EU, so it is not surprising that those willing in Africa or Asia went to the Polish consulate. It was simply cheaper with us," explained the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski in an interview published on Wyborcza.pl.more

Britain's opposition Labour Party is investigating the extent to which its leader Keir Starmer's pro-Israel stance has caused it to lose Muslim voters and whether this could cost it its failure to win an independent majority in this year's House of Commons elections, 'The Guardian' daily reported.more

A group of businessmen "close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu" has drawn up a "secret plan" outlining the post-war fate of the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported. The editorial believes that the project, which envisages the creation of a Palestinian state over time, is a "trial balloon" released by the Israeli prime minister.more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski has already decided to replace the supreme commander of the armed forces, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the British Financial Times reported yesterday, citing four people familiar with the situation.more

Britain is ready to bring forward the moment when it formally recognises a Palestinian state, the foreign secretary has suggested. Lord Cameron said Palestinians had to be given a political horizon to encourage peace in the Middle East.more

New cars in Ireland grew 2.4cm wider in five years, with some of the most popular models now so large they have just a few centimetres to spare in many parking spaces.more