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Polish president appoints new deputy PM

Jadwiga Emilewicz replaced Jarosław Gowin, who resigned his post of deputy PM on Monday. Wojciech Olkuśnik/PAP

Acting on the motion of the prime minister, Polish President Andrzej Duda on Thursday appointed Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz Poland's new deputy PM.

Polish deputy PM resigns

Polish Deputy PM Jarosław Gowin announced on Monday that he has tendered his resignation. He added his Agreement party remains in the United Right coalition and that his groupings candidate for deputy PM is Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz.

Top Polish lab to get EUR 5.8 mln for coronavirus research

The Małopolska Centre of Biotechnology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, south Poland, will receive PLN 25 million (EUR 5.8 mln) for research on coronavirus, Ministry of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin told a Monday press conference.

Science minister to appoint coronavirus team

Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin is on Monday to form a team in order to oversee the coronavirus threat, its role will include coordinating activities at universities.

State services have stood up well to flooding 'test' - PM

Activities related to the flood situation are a kind of test of the effectiveness of Poland's state services, which have stood up pretty well so far, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated on Friday, the third day of extensive flooding in south Poland.

Minister replies to French counterpart's letter over Holocaust conference

Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Science and Higher Education Minister Jarosław Gowin replied on Monday to a letter sent on Friday by his French counterpart, Frederique Vidal, concerning "anti-Semitic interferences" at a Paris conference on the Holocaust.

Govt. puts out tenders for private companies to develop security

The projects relate to homeland security, administration and intelligence, including seven projects in the field of cybersecurity and several others focusing on border security.

Govt. votes on education reforms

The reforms follow recommendations from representatives of three different universities.

Poland does not make full use of EU funds for research - Dep PM Gowin

Poland is in last place in the European Union in terms of research funding obtained from EU programmes, Deputy PM and Minister of Science and Higher Education Jarosław Gowin said on Thursday.

Poland joins int'l programme to develop supercomputers

Poland has joined an international initiative, which aims to create a European exascale computer system for processing enormous amounts of data.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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