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The Art of the matter: Witty reproductions of classic paintings show police enforcing COVID-19 lockdown

The modifications show classic works of art featuring Polish police officers enforcing lockdown laws. Jarek Kubicki

A well-known Gdańsk-born artist has seen his popularity surge further after modifying classic works of art to feature Polish police officers enforcing lockdown laws and writing out fines.

WSJ praises Poland, Eastern Europe for fight against coronavirus

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote that Eastern Europe could teach the western part of the continent a lesson about the coronavirus and added that countries of the region, including Poland, had quickly introduced restrictions and, to some extent, had infections under control.

Poland's Q1 growth 'visibly lower' than in previous quarter - MinFin

Poland's economic growth in the first quarter of 2020 was still positive but "visibly lower" than the 3.2 percent annual growth rate posted in the previous quarter, Deputy Finance Minister Leszek Skiba wrote in an answer to an MP query.

Biting into the future: restaurants roll out pay-first-eat-later initiative to help them weather the coronavirus storm

Customers will be able to buy vouchers which can later be traded in once the lockdown is over.

Cor-moaner virus? Industry experts on how to overcome the COVID-19 lockdown blues

From style coaches to castle owners, and brewers to DJs, TFN talks to people at the top of their business game to see how they are organising their home working regime.

Poland prolongs all coronavirus restrictions

The government will prolong all restrictions put in place so far to fight the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, PM Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Thursday.

Lock-down trims 2 pp from Poland's GDP growth every month - FinMin

Every month of the national lock-down in the face of the coronavirus threat takes away 2 percentage points from Poland's GDP growth rate, Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński said on Thursday.

Lockdown and isolation: the summer a Polish city defeated an outbreak of one of the world’s deadliest diseases

TFN takes a look at back at a previous epidemic Poland had to face, and how smallpox was contained.

Coronavirus Diary #6

It’s the Debrief Coronavirus Diary part six, and today we’re keeping it local. Very local…

Coronavirus Diary #2

In today’s Debrief, I hand over the mic to you and we manage to hear from two people trying to come to terms with the coronavirus reality in Poland.

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Hidden railway track and wagon wheels found at ‘Hitler bunker’ reignite hopes of Amber Room discovery

The discovery was made at the site of heavy concrete bunkers in the Warmia and Mazury province that was the headquarters of Hitler’s German Army Supreme Command, just a few kilometres from Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair bunker complex.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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