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First no-toll motorway stretches will cost EUR 44 mln, PM says

Mateusz Morawiecki, visiting a seniors' club in southeastern Poland on Saturday, said that from July 1 two first sections of motorways managed by the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways will be exempted from tolls. Piotr Polak/PAP

Freeing the first stretches of Poland's state-owned motorways from toll under a planned new law will cost around PLN 200 million (EUR 44 mln), Poland's prime minister said on Saturday.

Today’s news round-up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Gov't okays scrapping motorway tolls

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill abolishing tolls for passenger vehicles on state-owned motorways, the infrastructure minister told a press conference.

Scrapping motorway tolls will improve safety says minister

Abolishing tolls for passenger vehicles on motorways will transfer some road traffic from alternative routes and help improve road safety, the infrastructure minister has told PAP.

Baltic Sea-Czechia highway creates new development opportunities says PM

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has hailed the completion of the A1 motorway that runs from Gdansk on the Baltic coast to the Czech border, saying it will increase Poland's trade and open up new development prospects.

Many injured in Polish coach crash in Germany

At least 35 people were injured, six of them seriously, when a Polish coach travelling from Warsaw to Belgium crashed near Magdeburg in Germany.

Today’s news round up in Poland

Start your day with a summary of today’s top stories from Poland’s leading news sites.

Palaeontologists reconstructing skeleton of rare prehistoric rhino reveal it was saved ‘by a whisker’ after builders wanted to THROW it away

Initially believed to have been an example of a woolly rhinoceros, closer inspection by experts from the University of Wrocław revealed it was a specimen of the much rarer Stephanorhinus or Merck’s rhinoceros. The palaeontologists came to the rescue after the builders, saying they were going to dump the bones, went to watch a football match.

Gigantic footbridge for the disabled is dubbed ‘Donkey Kong obstacle’ as row breaks out over its fitness for purpose

Opened on April 29th, the gigantic 126-metre-long yellow-green labyrinthine structure over a busy motorway is made up of six zig-zagging ramps with sharp 180 degree bends.

Five dead after Polish bus crashes in Germany

Five people died on Tuesday night in an accident involving a Polish bus on the A1 motorway close to Oldenburg, north-west Germany, German media has reported.

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Posting on Twitter, the Ministry of Infrastructure said: “The first signs are already leading to Królewiec. We have just started replacing the boards so that they have Polish name Królewiec, not Kaliningrad.

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