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Senate marks Smolensk Disaster anniversary

The resolution was passed unanimously. Mateusz Marek/PAP

The Senate on Thursday adopted a resolution marking the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Smolensk Air Disaster, which killed Poland's president, first lady, and over 80 top state and military officials.

Senate unanimously passes act on coronavirus

The Senate (upper house) on Friday unanimously backed a special act introducing preventive measures against the spreading coronavirus. The act passed in a 74 to 0 vote with nine abstentions.

Polish Senate speaker to meet French president on Monday

A meeting is planned for Monday evening between Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki and French President Emmanuel Macron, the Senate Information Centre (CIS)'s deputy director, Anna Godzwon, has informed PAP.

US Congress Speaker Pelosi to meet Polish Senate speaker on Tuesday

The speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is to meet Polish Senate Speaker Tomasz Grodzki on a Tuesday stop-over en route to the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday, the Senate Information Centre has informed PAP.

Senate backs resolution against Russian historical manipulations

The Polish Senate (upper house) on Friday unanimously backed a resolution protesting against Russian accusations of Poland's collaboration with Nazi Germany and complicity in the outbreak of World War Two.

Polish Senate expresses solidarity with Australians

The Polish Senate, in a resolution adopted by the upper house of parliament on Friday, expressed its solidarity with the Australian people, who have been fighting catastrophic fires for months.

Parliamentary team debates government's judicial law amendments

A parliamentary team for the defence of the rule of law on Tuesday debated the Polish government-authored judicial law amendments. Present at the nearly four-hour debate were among others Supreme Court head Malgorzata Gersdorf and invited foreign guests.

Senate for lowering social insurance premiums for small businesses

The Senate (upper house) on Wednesday voted in favour of a bill introducing the so called Small Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) Plus scheme.

Poland marks 49th anniversary of tragic anti-communist protests

State and local officials, including President Andrzej Duda, on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the wave of strikes and demonstrations that spread across the Polish Baltic Sea coast in December 1970 in reaction to state-imposed price increases.

Inaugural sitting of Senate elects new speaker

President Andrzej Duda inaugurated the first sitting of the Senate's 10th term of office on Tuesday afternoon, expressing satisfaction with the political diversity in the upper house of Poland's parliament.

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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

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