A Polish cosmetics firm has launched a potato-scented perfume, inspired by its founder’s trips to the local market while growing up in small-town Poland. Bohoboco is a firm specialising in “niche ...

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Polish state energy giant Orlen says it has notified prosecutors of possible criminal offences by the firm’s management under the former Law and Justice (PiS) government, including actions that caused ...

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The national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), Poland’s main opposition party, has confirmed that it will merge with the smaller hard-right Sovereign Poland (Suwerenna Polska), with which it has ...

A pair of male red deer have been caught on camera fighting one another on a busy street near the centre of the Polish town of Zakopane. An official from a nearby national park notes that such a sight ...

Poland has identified the remains of 17 people who were victims of either the Nazi-German invasion and occupation in World War Two or of the communist regime that was installed by the Soviet Union ...

Poland’s defence minister says that too few volunteers have so far signed up to form a planned “Ukrainian Legion” made up of Ukrainians living in Poland, who would be trained and then sent to help ...

One of Europe’s largest media and telecoms groups, Cyfrowy Polsat, has lost hundreds of millions of zloty in value after reports emerged last week of conflict between its founder, Zygmunt Solorz, who ...

The government wants to double the area of national parks in the country and plans to establish the first new park in the Lower Oder Valley. While environmentalists support the proposal, anglers and ...