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After a year of rule by the coalition of KO, PSL, Poland 2050 and the Left, Poles live the same as before - assessed 46.8 percent of respondents in a Friday poll for RMF FM and "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna". The survey commissioned by "SE" shows that 44 percent of respondents live worse than before the change of government.more

Donald Trump's team has been in talks with the White House and Ukrainian representatives in recent days about ending the war, NBC News reported yesterday. However, the station reports that so far the new team has not presented a concrete plan.more

A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK.more

The US weekly Time magazine has named Donald Trump as its Man of the Year, the magazine's editors announced yesterday. more

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won this year's Politico ranking of the 28 most influential people in Europe. Other nominees included Donald Tusk, Radoslaw Sikorski, Rafal Trzaskowski and Piotr Serafin.more

Asylum seekers will be housed in disused care homes and student digs under a Home Office plan to find 800 new accommodation sites and cut a bill that has risen to £8m a day.more

The election race for the Presidential Palace is already in full swing, even though the campaign has not yet been officially announced – this is the opinion of almost 90 percent of respondents in the IBRiS survey for "Rzeczpospolita", the results of which were published today.more

Billionaire Nick Candy has moved to Nigel Farage's group, the right-wing populist Reform UK, from the Conservative Party to become treasurer. He has announced that he will raise enough money for his party to win the next UK election, ‘The Guardian’ reported yesterday.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces greater state commitment to stability in the Middle East, according to a Downing Street release yesterday. Starmer was in the United Arab Emirates, where he met with President Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.more

If Rafał Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki were to face each other in the second round of the presidential election, the former could count on 46 per cent support and the latter on 34 per cent. 17 per cent of respondents would not vote for either of them, according to the latest CBOS poll.more

Britain will limit engagement with the Georgian government and restrict defence cooperation, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday in a statement condemning violence against protestors and journalists there, APA reports citing Reuters.more

Britain has welcomed the fall of the "barbaric regime" in Syria and called for a "restoration of peace and stability", Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement yesterday.more

I would not say that we are at war with the United States, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with right-wing columnist Tucker Carlson. He added that the main condition for ending the war is Ukraine's neutral status and suggested that Russia could provide it with security guarantees.more

Russia's foreign ministry announced yesterday that it was closing the Polish consulate general in St Petersburg in retaliation for the earlier closure of the Russian consulate general in Poznan. Three Polish diplomats have also been declared undesirable and are to leave Russia.more

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a six-point ‘Plan for Change’ for his government in a speech today. Five months after its historic victory, Labour is facing waning support among Britons who say politicians have abandoned their promises.more

The French Parliament yesterday passed a motion of censure against Michel Barnier's government forcing him to step down. Prime Minister Barnier's government is the first cabinet to step down as a result of a vote of no confidence since 1962.more

The prime minister has rejected any suggestion that the UK must choose between closer ties with the US or the European Union, when Donald Trump returns to the White House.more

A failure of the fiber-optic cable connecting Finland with Sweden occurred yesterday on the land section in Finland, Swedish Radio reported. Finnish police suspect sabotage.more

More than 600 Brazilians, including 109 children, have been secretly removed from the UK – on the three largest Home Office deportation charter flights in history – since the Labour government came to power, the Observer has learned.more

Yesterday, Norwegian Defense Minister Bjorn Arild Gram announced the sending of F-35 multi-role aircraft and NASAMS anti-aircraft systems to Poland, which will protect the airspace over the logistics hub in Rzeszów.more

Michel Barnier's government, in power in France since September, could become the shortest-lived cabinet in the history of the Fifth Republic, dating back to 1958. It is still unclear whether it will survive the budget votes, and if it does fall, who might become the new prime minister.more

The Home Office has admitted that many people who have the right to live and work in the UK cannot access their eVisas and provide proof that they are allowed to be in the country.more

Complaints about public services have soared by more than a third since 2016 with substantial jumps in relation to benefits, prisons, the NHS and higher education, according to a leading thinktank.more

The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is returning to an anti-European course in the final version of its election programme. The document, accessed by the weekly Spiegel, shows that the party is demanding that Germany leave the European Union and the eurozone.more

A British former UFO hunter has said he does not “rule out” recent drone incursions over RAF bases in England being connected to Russia and China and nuclear weapons.more