On Wednesday, the European Commission announced it will refer Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union. Reason? Poland's politically compromised Constitutional Tribunal and its rulings challenging the EU legal order.
"It is clear that Poczobut's trial is politically motivated and that he is innocent" - Members of the European Parliamen wrote in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to impose sanctions against all Belarusian...
"In a sense, Andrzej Poczobut embodies the most important values of modern Europe. That's why we should now do everything we can to deliver him from the clutches of his cruel oppressors, worthy heirs of Stalin and Hitler" - Adam Michnik,...
Wyborcza's long-time foreign correspondent and leading member of the Polish minority in Belarus, Andrzej Poczobut, was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Polish government and multiple international organizations are calling on the Belarusian...
As long as there is a full-scale war going on, Ukraine's future remains uncertain. However, there are already multilateral and multistakeholder efforts to help Ukraine break with its Soviet past and pave its way to EU membership.
A newly discovered film roll with photographs taken in 1943 by Zbigniew Leszek Grzywaczewski, a member of the Warsaw Fire Brigade, shows the horrific aftermath of the Ghetto Uprising from a unique perspective.
"Wyborcza" has listed and fact-checked the most striking acts of misconduct and deliberate disinformation committed by the Polish Border Guard since the beginning of the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.
"Wyborcza" stands with TVN against government efforts to silence the network for revealing that the final report of the Smoleńsk air disaster subcommittee was based on fabricated evidence.
"Despite its best efforts to tilt the political playing field in its favor, the Polish ruling camp is still worried about the outcome of upcoming parliamentary elections. It is afraid of the democratic opposition's unity"- New Year's message from...
After a year marked by continued attempts to silence our journalists and a massive increase in the price of energy and paper, in the last days of December, the number of Wyborcza's digital subscriptions surpassed 300,000! An extraordinary...
The European Union's institutions are well aware of the concerted, structural attacks on media freedom and pluralism in Hungary and Poland plus several other member states, and the European Commission's flagship annual rule of law reports are proof...
Poland's government acted unlawfully when it authorized a major transaction between state oil giant PKN Orlen and Saudi Aramco, Wyborcza has found. Intelligence services were not allowed to assess the deal in terms of its potential risks to Poland's...
"Yes, these images are violent, but people should see them. They need to know that this is not a movie. This is what war looks like in my home country" - says Evgeniy Maloletka, Ukrainian photojournalist and winner of the 2022 Krzysztof Miller Award.
"By dismissing Hanna Machińska, a true guardian of human rights, Ombudsman Marcin Wiącek ceased to represent the interests of Polish citizens" - writes Jarosław Kurski, first deputy editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza.
The district prosecutor's office in the border town of Sokółka dropped all charges against Weronika Klemba, a 20-year-old aid worker who in March was accused of helping to smuggle migrants across the Poland-Belarus border. The prosecution had...
Questioning the Constitutional Tribunal's ability to "adjudicate in accordance with the law", Poland's Supreme Administrative Court pointed out that the "presence of improperly appointed judges in its composition causes the entire Constitutional...
Last week, Poland's ruling camp pushed through an amendment increasing the funding for public broadcasting by a third. But PiS plans to boost its media presence with much more than just money- it now wants pay-TV operators to prioritize state TV...
Addressing members of the European Parliament, Warsaw's Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski asked the EU for financial aid to help local governments in Poland support Ukrainian war refugees. "We've reached our maximum capacity. We need your help" - he pleaded.
After being suspended for over two years, judge Igor Tuleya can finally return to work - Poland's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The decision represents a significant setback for the National Prosecutor's Office, which wanted to indict the judge...
"If we had absolute certainty that the funds would be unblocked once and for all without any risk of EU backtracking, we would consider undertaking some steps to resolve the conflict. We draw the line, however, at the conformity of any solution with...
"Wyborcza's" convoy carrying several tons of humanitarian aid to distant regions in eastern Ukraine came under fire from Russian troops. Red cross emblems provided no protection against enemy fire.
Poland's air and missile defense is about to get a boost. On Monday, Deputy PM and Minister of Defense Mariusz Błaszczak said he welcomed Germany's offer to deploy additional Patriot batteries to Poland and suggested to locate them near the border...
On Friday, the editor-in-chief of "Gazeta Wyborcza", Adam Michnik, received the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award - Spain's highest honor often compared to the Nobel Prize.
On Tuesday, October 25, Polish border guard officers discovered the body of a black man who is believed to have drowned in a nearby river. Everything suggests it is a 23-year-old Sudanese national who went missing in early October.
A criminal investigation into the involvement of Polish officials in the extrajudicial detention and torture of terrorism suspects by the CIA was quietly discontinued. Wyborcza got hold of previously undisclosed documents revealing new details about...
On Thursday, Wyborcza's former deputy Editor-in-Chief Piotr Stasiński participated in a panel discussion organized on the occasion of the European Anti-SLAPP Conference in Strasbourg. We are publishing a transcript of his speech below.
Joining Serbia and Italy, Poland was named among Europe's top countries providing most favorable conditions for powerful actors to intimidate and silence critical journalists by means of abusive lawsuits. This shameful title has been awarded during...
A group of top former monetary policy officials, including the architect of Poland's economic reforms Leszek Balcerowicz, issued a statement urging current authorities of the National Bank to "end practices restricting the constitutionally...
The Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) demands that "Wyborcza" remove a photo showing the Institute's former regional director making a Nazi salute at a far-right rally.
Poland will participate in NATO's annual nuclear deterrence drills planned for next week. While the exercises are to take place against the backdrop of Putin's threats to use nuclear arms in Ukraine, according to Secretary General Stoltenberg -...
On Monday, the European Court of Human Rights rejected a request of the Polish government to review the case of judge Waldemar Żurek, thus upholding an earlier decision finding that authorities have attempted to silence him and violated his rights.
On Sunday, the Polish Prime Minister attended an international far-right rally in Madrid hosted by Spain's VOX party. The event brought together prominent right-wing populist leaders such as Viktor Orban, Georgia Meloni, and Donald Trump.
Lukashenko's regime is taking revenge on "Wyborcza's" long-time foreign correspondent Andrzej Poczobut. Belarusian KGB has just put the Polish journalist on a terrorist watchlist.
On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the suspension of Polish judge Paweł Juszczyszyn by the unlawful Disciplinary Chamber violated his rights. "He had been suspended essentially for delivering a judicial decision"- the ECtHR...
On Tuesday, during her visit to Warsaw, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock told her Polish counterpart that "from the point of view of the federal government, the question of reparations is closed".
The Kremlin's flagship propaganda channel, Russia 1, provided extensive coverage of a small anti-Ukrainian protest organized in Warsaw by the Polish far-right MP Grzegorz Braun. In the footage aired on Russian TV, Braun is calling for immediate...
Putin's address following the illegal annexation of Ukrainian territories was a clumsy imitation of Hitler's speeches about the persecution of Germans in Czechoslovakia and Poland. This grim and grotesque spectacle will not convince anyone that...
Neither his words about the "poor Russian troops", nor that "we are all guilty", nor Darya Dugina's "innocence". These are merely excerpts from a discussion in absentia with the Russian Orthodox Church, keeping in mind that everything Francis does...
The PR agency of former PiS spokesman Adam Hofman received EUR 10,000 a month to help the Hungarian energy company MOL acquire over 400 Lotos-owned filling stations. According to our information, the success fee for closing the deal could have been...
"The Golden Pen of Freedom Award, which I am proudly accepting today on behalf of the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation - and on behalf of its beneficiaries, supporters, and friends - proves that the "no freedom without solidarity" motto is also close to...
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