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Uber has insisted that its fares will not rise after saying all 70,000 of its UK drivers will be guaranteed a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions.more

Portugal’s constitutional court on Monday rejected a law decriminalising euthanasia that had been approved by parliament in January.more

The situation of the rule of law in Poland gives rise to serious concern, said EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders yesterday during the meeting of the European Parliament committee in Brussels. more

A group of consumers has filed a lawsuit against Google in a US court, pointing out that the global giant collects personal data even if users use the so-called privacy control. A Google spokesman explains the "confusion" by the fact that most people do not fully understand what incognito mode is.more

Two teenagers have been removed from their parents’ care after social services raised concerns about their weight to a family court judge. The judge, Gillian Ellis, ruled that the children from Sussex be taken into long-term foster care. She described the case as “very sad and unusual”.more

The UK has maintained changes it made to Northern Ireland's trading arrangements are "lawful" and "well precedented" after the European Union launched legal action against it.more

The Netherlands ranks fourth in the global ranking of countries and territories for tax avoidance, according to a report by Tax Justice Netherlands. The organization asked political parties to stop this practice.more

The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday declaring the European Union "a zone of LGBTIQ freedom". It was prepared by deputies, also Polish, from the faction of the European People's Party, socialists, Renew Europe, the Greens and the Left.more

During the debate "Government attempts to silence free media in Poland, Hungary and Slovenia" in the European Parliament, Vice-President of the European Commission Viera Jourova said that in these countries there is an attempt to limit media freedom. Polish MEP Beata Szydło, in turn, suggested to the European Commission that she was organizing debates "based on fake news and disinformation".more

An equality adviser has quit accusing the government of creating a “hostile environment” for LGBT people by failing to ban conversion therapy.more

The boss of payments company Klarna has said that he is surprised by concerns about the buy now, pay later model.more

Google is failing to do enough to combat fake reviews within its business listings, and must be held to account by a UK watchdog, according to Which?more

MI5 is allowed to authorise its agents to torture and murder, a Court of Appeal ruling suggests.more

Appliances such as fridges, washing machines and TVs should last longer and be cheaper to run under new rules.more

Switzerland has narrowly voted in favour of banning face coverings in public, including the burka or niqab worn by Muslim women.more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran on spying charges, has had her ankle tag removed at the end of her five year sentence.more

The place where we take the dog for a walk decides where we have a tax residence, say practitioners. This is of great importance for Poles working in the UK - reports Prawo.pl.more

The "shadow hunters" of the Police Central Bureau of Investigation tracked down a Pole in Great Britain, wanted by the European Arrest Warrant. Jerzy J. had been in hiding for nearly 4 years, because he was sentenced to over 10 years in prison for numerous crimes, including against life and health. Jerzy J. was found in Andover.more

Last year in Poland, 32,878 embryos were used in the in vitro procedure, informed the Ministry of Health. The ministry does not collect data on how many pregnancies have been confirmed thanks to this method. According to experts, the effectiveness of the in vitro procedure in Poland is over 38%.more

Threatening to share sexual images and videos of a person will soon become a crime, the Government has announced following calls from campaigners.more

Energy watchdog Ofgem said suppliers including Big Six firms British Gas, Npower and EDF overcharged customers £7.2million over seven years after failing to follow price protection rules.more

Two British couples were sentenced to four months in prison and a fine of 23,000. Euros for simulating poisoning in one of the hotels in the Canary Islands in 2016, the Spanish media reported on Monday.more

The case of a Pole who is serving a sentence for espionage in a Russian prison camp has been treated as a priority by the consul in Moscow from the very beginning; the consul provides the inmates with all possible help - the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs.more

The top European Union court has ruled that Poland’s new regulations for appointing judges to the Supreme Court could go against EU law. The ruling on Tuesday obliges Poland’s government to discontinue these regulations. The ruling was in response to a complaint by some judges in Poland to the European Court of Justice. more

10 percent respondents want a total ban on abortion. 12 percent supports the current legal status. The rest - to a varying degree - are in favor of liberalization - according to the IBRiS survey commissioned by Rzeczpospolita.more