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Low-income tenants will face higher energy bills as a result of the government’s decision to scrap plans to force private landlords to upgrade their properties to make them more energy efficient, experts have said.more

The number of 18-year-olds in the UK accepted into university has fallen for the first time in five years. Applications also fell, after demand rose in the pandemic, and about 85% of applicants were accepted in both years. more

British public support for the country having its own nuclear weapons has returned to levels not seen since the tensest moments of the Cold War, according to a poll published today.more

Thousands of people have died avoidably after the government stopped telling the food industry to cut how much salt it puts into its products, research has found.more

The number of deaths caused by alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking is increasing in Poland. This is blamed on an increase in the sale of 'monkeys' and the advertising of cigarette substitutes as 'safer for health', according to scientists who sit on the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.more

How Poland can more effectively support and integrate the Polish community, the role of the Polish community in Polish-British relations and the cultivation of Polishness abroad were debated by participants in the Polish Congress Poland the Great Project, which took place in London on Saturday.more

The number of working pensioners is increasing in Germany. More than 56,000 more seniors are now working than at the end of last year. Left-wing politicians point out that for many this is not a voluntary decision, but a necessity "to survive another month" - reported the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) website yesterday.more

The "snowflake" generation, or children and adolescents, who unlike their parents and grandparents have powerful access to knowledge, do not cope with this knowledge, which contributes to mental problems, experts estimate.more

Disapproval of physical punishment of children has strengthened over the past four years. Among respondents, whether they have children or not, the predominant belief is that physical punishment should not be used, according to a survey conducted by CBOS.more

If the parliamentary elections were held this Sunday, PiS would receive 33.3 per cent of the vote; KO would receive 26.4 per cent. The Left would come third with 11.1 per cent, followed by the Third Way, which can count on 10.2 per cent of the vote, according to the latest IBRiS poll for Onet.more

Already 93 per cent of companies in Poland use the hybrid working model, writes today's 'Puls Biznesu'. To optimise costs, they are increasingly willing to choose flexible offices, the newspaper adds.more

Payments made with cash rose for the first time in a decade last year as consumers struggled with rising prices. But the number is still dwarfed by debit card use which accounted for half of all payments, its highest ever level.more

63 percent of workers of pre-retirement age and 69 percent of those of protective age are not thinking about retirement and want to continue working, according to a report by OLX Jobs and Minds&Roses. Economic motivation prevails among respondents (49 percent), but slightly fewer (44 percent) indicate the need to get out of the house and be among people. "Work gives you energy and a desire to livemore

Xavier Espot Zamora is the fifth person in the country's government not to hide his sexual orientation. Previously coming out were Latvian President Edgars Rinkevičs, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.more

The German Football Federation (DFB) has reported a decline in racist and discriminatory incidents in professional leagues in recent years. A different picture emerges from data from the Football Discrimination Reporting Point in North Rhine-Westphalia, which reported, among other things, an increase in the number of Nazi salutes observed and reported.more

The British Defense Ministry has been forced to cut training for Ukrainian soldiers at the Lydd Ranges training ground in Kent County in southeastern England by 30 percent due to complaints from local residents about noise nuisance, The Times reported yesterday.more

The number of Scots looking for work rose over the summer, according to the latest unemployment figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said up to 4.3% of the workforce was seeking employment from May to July, matching the rate of unemployment for the UK as a whole. more

Anti-Brexit campaigners have called on Britain to rejoin the EU after it was announced the UK is to return to the bloc’s £85bn Horizon science programme. The agreement means researchers based in the UK can, from Thursday, apply for grants to take part in the collaboration programme after prime minister Rishi Sunak secured what he called “the right deal for British taxpayers”.more

The number of foreign students at Dutch universities is on the rise, and now 41 percent of first-year students are not Dutch, according to the latest report from the Netherlands Bureau of Statistics (CBS).more

71 percent of Europeans support the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia for its aggression against Ukraine; 57 percent favor supporting the embattled country through purchases and supplies of military equipment, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.more

The number of animal adoptions is falling, more and more abandoned quadrupeds, unsterilized cats - these are part of the problems of Polish shelters after the holidays. The case was reported by "Rzeczpospolita", emphasizing that holidays are always a time when the number of animals in shelters increases.more

Dean Holden is one of many people thinking there is more to life than work, hanging up his mic as a railway station announcer after 16 years. more

A review of veterinary services in the UK has been launched over concerns that pet owners could be paying too much. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said vet fees were rising faster than other goods and services during the cost-of-living crisis.more

Polish society is one of the fastest aging in the EU. This will soon force the retail industry to make appropriate changes. As experts argue, this will be a gradual process and no major revolution in this area should be expected. But you have to prepare for it now.more

Moving up the social ladder in Britain has become harder than at any point in more than half a century for children born into poor households, according to the country’s foremost economic thinktank.more