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Every third Polish family business has experienced a deterioration in its situation in the last year. The most painful are the high costs of fuel, energy and labour, reports "Puls Biznesu".more

The government has ruled out making any intervention in the market to help farmers or consumers with high food prices, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, has said. more

Great Britain continues to strive for the ongoing war to be resolved in Ukraine's favor, and neither the change of government nor the economic crisis will change its approach, Michał Jach, chairman of the parliamentary National Defense Committee, stated in London.more

The way Wales is currently governed is inefficient and unsustainable, the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales said in a report released today. Independence was identified as one of the three options to be further explored.more

Another scandal has erupted in the UK over personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic, with Baroness Michelle Mone at the centre of it, who was alleged to have made £30m from public money as a result.more

The UK government has announced the relaxation of the de facto near-total ban on new onshore wind farms in England and announced a public consultation on the issue.more

We will defend every square metre of territory of NATO countries, including Poland. You are safe, I promise you that," US Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski announced today.more

More of us are dying all the time than before the pandemic. In 48 weeks this year, 408,000 people died in Poland. This is 30 thousand more than in 2019. - writes today's 'Dziennik Gazeta Prawna'.more

Citizens without citizenship with the right of permanent residence will also be able to enlist in the Canadian army, said Minister of Defense Anita Anand. The reason is staff shortages, the army lacks about eight thousand soldiers.more

The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has announced that he will abolish the House of Lords within his first term as prime minister. He has a good chance of doing so, as Labor is clearly leading in the polls.more

Locking up people who enter the country illegally and barring them from ever settling in the UK are “options” under consideration by Suella Braverman and No 10 as the government puts a crackdown on small boats at the heart of its agenda.more

German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht, for a bit of self-promotion, has broken the secrecy of negotiations on the delivery of Patriot systems to Poland, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag wrote yesterday. "This is a nasty foul on the part of the minister.more

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenski was today named Person of the Year 2022 by the "Financial Times". "I am more responsible than brave... I just don't like to let people down" - announced the laureate.more

Kremlin propaganda is falling lower and lower, wrote the portal of the daily Stern yesterday. In the parallel world to which Vladimir Putin wants to transfer his subjects, prostheses are now styled as "enviable improvements" and "cool gadgets", the newspaper reports, stressing: "This is the wonderful new world of Kremlin propaganda".more

The British government is considering the involvement of the military to minimise any disruption resulting from a wave of strikes before Christmas, Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi confirmed yesterday.more

Peace talks with Russia, with Russian soldiers still in Ukraine, could be used by Vladimir Putin to rebuild the military, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly warned in an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" published yesterday.more

In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a majority of residents support a referendum on island reunification, but if it were to take place, the idea would be clearly rejected in Northern Ireland, according to a poll published yesterday by The Irish Times.more

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg against the British government's decision to extradite him to the United States, Reuters reported. "We confirm that the application has been received," the ECtHR said in a statement.more

Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a number of spies working for Moscow have been detained in Europe. The weekly "Spiegel" estimates that tens of thousands of people live in the West, working for the Russian intelligence services of the FSB, SWR or the military GRU.more

Vladimir Putin has fallen down his stairs and bruised his tailbone, it has been claimed. Security guards had to help the 70-year-old tyrant to a sofa nearby before doctors arrived, sources have said.more

A very poor result for the UK's ruling Conservative Party in its first electoral test since Rishi Sunak took over as Prime Minister, with the grouping achieving its worst result since 1857 in a by-election in the Chester constituency.more

Details of a new program encouraging people to recycle soda bottles and cans have been announced. Under the project, the deposit will be 15 cents for bottles and cans up to 500 ml and 25 cents for those with a larger capacity.more

Russia planned to occupy Ukraine within 10 days and annex it by August, according to intercepted Russian documents purporting to be signed by President Vladimir Putin, the UK-based think tank Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) revealed yesterday.more

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who is on a visit to Ireland, assessed yesterday that relations with the UK have improved since Rishi Sunak became its Prime Minister and is confident that a solution can be found to the Northern Ireland Protocol dispute.more

500 years ago, in the autumn of 1522, the royal secretary of Sigismund I the Old, Ioannes Dantiscus (Jan Dantyszek), arrived at the court of King Henry VIII of England. This was the first diplomatic contact between Poland and England, which Dantiscus described as a country of high prices, bad food and ugly weather.more