Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is ...

Poland has launched its first signals intelligence (SIGINT) ship, one of two ordered from Swedish defence firm Saab and constructed in the Polish port of Gdańsk. The vessels will strengthen naval ...

Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has proposed an entry ban for people from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa. It says this would help stop ...

The Polish government has criticised the actions of self-proclaimed “citizen patrols” that have gathered on the German border with the aim of preventing the return of migrants who have illegally ...

Poland has announced that it will reintroduce controls on its borders with Germany and Lithuania to prevent the “uncontrolled flow of migrants”.

Poland’s justice minister has criticised the leniency of Babcia Kasia’s conviction, contrasting it to the prison sentence received by a nationalist.