Elżbieta Witek

Ceremonies across Poland commemorate presidential plane disaster

"I have come here to pay homage to the late President Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria and all the great Poles who died in an air crash near Smolensk 11 years ago," President Andrzej Duda said at the Wawel castle in Kraków, where the presidential couple are buried. Łukasz Gągulski/PAP

Ceremonies took place across in Poland on Saturday to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which killed 96 people, including Poland's then president Lech Kaczyński, during a landing attempt on a military airfield in western Russia.

Polish clinic offers to take Pole ‘in a coma’ after UK court rules he should be left to die

The man, who has not been named, has been in a coma in a Plymouth hospital since November 6 after suffering a cardiac arrest. The heart attack lasted for 45 minutes and left him with what doctors have described as severe and permanent brain damage.

Parliament speaker, German ambassador talk parliamentary cooperation

Sejm (lower house) Speaker Elzbieta Witek and the German Ambassador to Poland Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven on Wednesday discussed parliamentary dialogue, historical policy and the role of the Weimar Triangle.

Sejm speaker disappointed with Dutch call to file complaint against Poland

The speaker of Poland's lower house of parliament has expressed "amazement" and "disappointment" after Holland’s House of Representatives passed a motion calling on the Dutch government to file a complaint against Poland at the European Court of Justice.

Poland, Hungary against rule of law clauses in EU budget - speaker

Poland and Hungary are against tying payments from the EU budget to the rule of law issue, Polish Sejm (lower house) Speaker Elzbieta Witek said on Wednesday after a meeting with the speaker of Hungary's parliament, Laszlo Kover.

Staged battle: Miracle on the Vistula re-enacted in theatrical spectacle

National stadium converted into giant battlefield to celebrate a victory that saved Poland’s independence 100 years ago.

President lays wreath at monument to Marshal Józef Piłsudski

Polish President Andrzej Duda laid a wreath at a memorial to inter-war Polish strongman Marshal Józef Piłsudski on Saturday to mark both Armed Forces Day and the centenary of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

President Duda renamed Grand Master of highest Polish orders

Upon becoming re-elected as Polish president, Andrzej Duda officially assumed the leadership of the orders of the White Eagle and of Polonia Restituta in a ceremony held at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on Thursday.

Polish capital pays tribute to 1944 heroic act of resistance

,Sirens sounded throughout Warsaw at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, the exact time of the August 1, 1944, outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising against the city's Nazi German invaders, to mark the revolt's 76th anniversary.

Lower house delegation honours WWII freedom fighters

The Speaker of Sejm, lower house, Elżbieta Witek, together with the Presidium of the Sejm, on Saturday laid a wreath at the Monument to the Polish Underground State and Home Army in front of the Sejm building.

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