A group of EU judges are lodging an appeal to block the payment of Poland’s share of the post-pandemic EU recovery fund. The judges from 4 European associations do not agree with a recent EU decision that Poland has made the steps required of it in respect to the so-called „rule of law” dispute between the country and the European Commission.
The decision was ratified by the Council of the EU which is made up of European economy and finance ministers. Poland has been allocated 23.9 billion euros in grants and 11.5 billion euros in loans. A spokesperson for the Polish government said that action was „groundless”.
Source – Reuters
Analysis by a statisticians has shown how people from Ukraine have made an impact on the population of Poland. The Ukrainian News website (ukranews.com) says that before the invasion of Ukraine by Russian in February this year, around 2 million Ukrainians lived in Poland. That number now stands at close to 6 million.
The distribution of Ukrainians in the country is concentrated in different cities, depending on the historical distribution and economic situation of those cities as well as their closeness to the border. The city of Rzeszów, which is about 100 KM from the border with Ukraine has the highest proportion of Ukrainians at 37% of all the city’s residents, with Gdańsk coming in 2nd with 1 in 3 residents of the city coming from Ukraine.
Source – Ukrainian News
The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, western Poland, says it takes pride in having among its student community the country’s oldest undergraduate student.
Zenon Lenczewski, who is 75, is working on his MA thesis in Croatian studies. In addition to his normal course of lectures and tutorials, he is currently on a three-month Erasmus student exchange programme in the former Yugoslavia, conducting research on the role of graffiti art in modern society. Despite sweltering heat, Lenczewski has been to several Croatian cities and he has also visited the Serbian capital of Belgrade and Sarajevo, the capital of neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Source – Polskie Radio
Officials in Poland have paid tribute to two members of the country’s wartime underground Home Army (AK), Danuta Siedzikówna and Feliks Selmanowicz, who were executed by the communist regime after World War II.
Siedzikówna (also known as Inka, her nom de guerre) was a medical orderly and was executed when she was just 17 years old. She was killed together with Selmanowicz (codename Zagończyk) in Gdańsk on August 28th, 1946, by the Soviet-backed communist regime that came to power in Poland after World War II. During memorial ceremonies in Gdańsk on Sunday, officials laid flowers on their graves to commemorate the 76th anniversary of their death.
Source – Polskie Radio
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Today will be a sunny day with scattered clouds in a moderate breeze with the possibility of showers later in the day and temperatures of 23 degrees centigrade (73 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day and 15 degrees overnight. Tomorrow will start rainy and overcast in a moderate breeze winds with temperatures of 19 degrees during the day and 13 degrees overnight.
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