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Penalties imposed for violations of the GDPR are increasing. In 2020, the data protection authorities of EU Member States decided to impose fines totaling EUR 159 million. In Poland, the Office for Personal Data Protection decided on penalties in the total amount of EUR 1.7 million. more

A specialist department for disputes over foreign currency loans in Warsaw will not be established until April 1 - the Polish daily "Rzeczposplita" reports today.more

Krzysztof Szczerski, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President, announced that, on the orders of President Andrzej Duda, he would meet with the British ambassador to Poland today about a Pole who remains in a coma. more

British doctors have called on the government to introduce legislation to protect them from legal action over decisions to treat Covid-19 that could be made under conditions of extreme pressure. more

The world must look for a better way to deal with online speech than allowing tech oligopolies to take control of fundamental freedoms, assessed the British weekly Economist. more

Business secretary has denied claims EU-based employment laws such as 48-hour week will be axed.more

Today at midnight, the ban on landing in Poland from Great Britain, introduced on January 5, expired. As reported by the Civil Aviation Authority, it was the last country from which air travel to Poland was not possible.more

Governments across Europe announced tighter and longer coronavirus lockdowns this week over fears about a fast-spreading variant first detected in Britain, with vaccinations not expected to help much for another two to three months.more

Former world champion of the WBC and IBF federation in junior heavyweight Krzysztof Włodarczyk went to prison for breaking the court ban on driving motor vehicles.more

The Polish prosecutor's office announced yesterday that the investigation into the murder of the president of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz is at a decisive stage. The sanity of the perpetrator, Stefan W., is being established. Two, but contradictory, expert opinions were obtained. Experts have 30 days to finally resolve this issue.more

The Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheal Martin, apologized yesterday on behalf of the state to tens of thousands of women who, due to the social lack of acceptance for illegitimate pregnancies, ended up in single mother's homes. He also issued an apology to their children.more

In the flesh, Jeanne Pouchain appears very much alive and well. Convincing the French authorities of this has proven another matter.more

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has again refused to accept the complaint submitted by the family of a Polish citizen living in England, who remains in a coma, his relatives said yesterday. This allows the hospital to switch off his life support.more

A woman who visited hospitals to expose what she falsely claimed were empty hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic has been fined £200 for breaking COVID regulations.more

Many British motorists caught speeding in Europe will evade fines because information sharing agreements have ceased post-Brexit.more

Home Secretary Ms Patel said police are under strict orders to hand out fines to anyone flouting the rules. She insisted officers would tackle those “putting the health of the nation at risk by not following the rules”.more

Security at Morrisons and Sainsbury’s will enforce face mask rules in a bid to help tackle spiralling infection rates.more

Boris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown. The Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday. Government advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.more

Yesterday, the British government again refused to accept the appeal lodged by part of the family of a Polish citizen who has been in a coma for over two months. Despite this, the case will again be referred to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, his relatives said.more

At the height of the pandemic, the management of the tax office ordered an action to control companies. Objective? Money from the mandates to rescue the state budget - writes today's "Puls Biznesu".more

Ministers have also discussed emergency help for hospitals in the most pressured regions.more

The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has abandoned his promise made last year that if he takes power, he will restore free movement of people with the European Union, the British press notes today.more

A Polish citizen who has been in a hospital in Plymouth in the south-west of England, who has been in a coma for more than two months, is being given water again as the court is due to reconsider the appeal, his relatives said today.more

The proposal to resign from the possibility of refusing to accept a penal mandate in favor of the possibility to challenge the imposed mandate to the court - is provided for by the MP's draft amendment to the Code of Conduct on misdemeanors by PiS, published on the Seym's website.more

Police could fine people in England £200 for lockdown breaches after their first verbal warning, according to reports.more