Poland will next week attempt to reinstate the use of permits for Ukrainian transport companies entering the European Union, as demanded by Polish haulers, the Polish prime minister has said. The prime minister said Poland would push for the return of the permits „at a meeting of EU transport ministers in Brussels on Monday.”
Polish transport companies have been blocking a number of checkpoints with Ukraine, demanding that the EU reinstate permits for Ukrainian transport firms entering the bloc, and that Ukraine abolish an electronic queuing system for empty trucks returning to Poland, according to news outlets. Meanwhile, Polish farmers are blocking another crossing, calling for subsidies on wheat and state-backed loans amid an influx of grain from Ukraine, and also want the farm tax rates to be kept unchanged.
Source – Polskie Radio
Polish opposition politicians have slammed a report by a state commission investigating Russian interference in Poland’s internal security from 2007 to 2022 after it concluded that Polish and Russian security services worked together between 2010 and 2014 when the government in Warsaw was headed by Donald Tusk.
The opposition MPs counter that the panel has been created „for political ends” and that its work „undermines Poland’s security services.” On Wednesday night, lawmakers voted to dismiss the members of the commission. The head of the opposition Civic Coalition has called for the commission to be abolished. Polish MPs are likely to elect Donald Tusk as the country’s new prime minister on December 11th, to head a Cabinet made up of four pro-EU opposition groups.
Source – Polskie Radio
Poland have retained their No. 31 spot in the latest world football rankings, which were released on Thursday. World champions Argentina remain at the top of the FIFA rankings, followed by World Cup runners-up France. England are at No. 3, ahead of Belgium in fourth spot. Poland reached the last 16 of last year’s World Cup in Qatar before being eliminated by eventual runners-up France.
Poland in 2017 had climbed to No. 5 in the FIFA table, the best result for the Polish team since the world football governing body’s ranking was launched in 1992. Poland’s lowest place in the world rankings was 78th, in 2013.
Source – Polskie Radio
The Pomeranian fire service is looking to recruit over 70 people in the near future, with vacancies in nearly every district and city headquarters to be filled, including ten in Gdynia, and six each in Słupsk and Sopot.
The provincial commander of the State Fire Service in Gdańsk, said that the recruitment of firefighters runs year-round with positions being offered in front-line fire-fighting units, or in regular office positions such as logistics, technology and fire prevention activities. The State Fire Service in Pomerania employs 1,700 people.
Source – Radio Gdańsk
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