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More than 550,000 passport applications were stuck waiting to be processed at the end of last, MPs have been told.more

The biggest shake-up to wedding laws since the 19th Century would give couples more choice, a government commissioned report has said.more

According to a study by UCE RESEARCH and the BLIX Group, high inflation means that almost eight out of ten Poles look for cheaper products or substitutes in stores. In turn, their price usually has to be 20-30% lower to be interesting at all. Less than 40% of Poles mainly try to save on food.more

Among G7 countries, Canada has the highest share of couples that are living common law (23%), mainly due to the popularity of this type of union in Quebec - home to more than two-fifths (43%) of Canada's common-law couples. more

The crackdown on drug use would also see casual users of drugs such as cocaine and cannabis face fines and be required to pay for a drug awareness course. It comes as recent statistics show more than three million people in England and Wales in 2019/20 reported using drugs in the past year.more

From December 27, 2020, when vaccination against COVID-19 began in Poland, 54,647,716 vaccines were administered, according to government websites.more

Women and men will be treated equally in 132 years, and last year the pandemic and conflicts have worsened the situation of women and girls, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.more

Uber drivers have been accused by 550 women in the US of sexual harassment. The case will be heard in a San Francisco court, the BBC news service reported today.more

Sixty-five per cent of Ukrainians who have gone abroad because of the war have no plans to return any time soon, the results of a survey by the UNHCR reported yesterday by Ukrainska Pravda show.more

Child poverty rose across the north-east of England in the first year of the pandemic, despite it falling in many other areas, figures have shown. more

The majority of Poles surveyed (55 per cent) believe that the state should, above all, make it easier for people to buy their own flats and build their own houses, according to a recently published CBOS survey.more

Donald Tusk's promise to propose a four-day working week in Poland after winning the elections has kindled the hopes of working people, but also great fears among entrepreneurs, reports today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

Analysis of prices from offers of nearly 40 thousand. retail outlets showed that in June increases in stores amounted to an average of 18% y-o-y. The fact that fatty products became the most expensive - by 37.2% - was not a surprise. But after many months, the growth leader in this group has changed. Now not oil, but butter beats the prices per head. It went up by as much as 48%.more

Nearly half a million more adults in England are now taking antidepressants compared with the previous year, according to NHS figures.more

54 percent Poles are planning a holiday trip in the period July - September, 76 percent want to spend a holiday in the country, at the same time, more than 80% respondents declare that they organize their own holidays - according to the research of the Research Partner company.more

The government's policy towards the war in Ukraine, inflation and the coronavirus are the issues causing the greatest dissatisfaction among Germans. In addition, almost half of them express concern about the deterioration of their own economic situation, according to the survey, commissioned by ARD and the daily newspaper "Welt".more

The number of people resident in Ireland but registered as paying tax elsewhere increased more than five-fold between 2014 and 2019, it has emerged.more

Law chiefs want the act of taking photos down a woman's top without consent, or "downblousing", to be made illegal in England and Wales.more

IRELAND’S secret codeine epidemic has claimed dozens of lives since 2018, the Irish Sun has learned - amid calls by an expert to remove the pain pills from over the counter sale.more

A significant increase in the assessment of the economic situation in Poland took place between February and March, to return in June to the level of January this year. - according to CBOS' semi-annual Public Sentiment Survey. Assessments of the political situation improved significantly in March and in June were slightly higher than in January.more

New public buildings will be required to have separate single-sex toilets under government plans, it has been reported.more

Politicians have a considerable survival advantage over the members of the public they represent in Parliament, a new study shows. Researchers at the University of Oxford have looked at health data from 11 countries and over 57,500 politicians going back to the early 19th century. more

Pope Francis is an authority for 57 per cent of adult Poles. In 2015, he was held in high esteem by 84 per cent of respondents, according to the CBOS poll. According to the poll's authors, the deterioration of Pope Francis' image is a result of his reaction to the war in Ukraine.more

63 per cent of Poles are primarily concerned about the financial consequences of the war in Ukraine, according to a survey by Deloitte. However, the percentage of respondents fearing a pandemic is falling.more

The Equaversity Foundation and the Pollster Research Institute today presented the results of the "Everyone is welcome" study on the attitude of Poles towards LGBT people and refugees. 89 percent of Poles believe that everyone deserves help, while 58 percent of respondents declare help for war refugees from Ukraine.more