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Pupils in grades 1 through 3 can return to schools from May 25th onwards. The decision belongs to each parent
From May 25th, schools will organize on-site childcare for grades 1-3 as well as consultations for eighth graders and high school seniors. From June 1 - on-site consultations for all students will be...
14-05-2020 17:26 -
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EBDR projects coronavirus recession in Poland to be mild. Why the optimism?
In its most recent forecast for Poland, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBDR) projects a moderate economic downturn followed by a dynamic rebound. Will we be able to get through...
13-05-2020 16:10 -
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They beat, cough and spit. Racist incidents are on the rise during the epidemic
For the first time in Poland we are dealing with such a wave of hatred towards people of Asian origin. But not only towards them.
13-05-2020 15:19 -
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Borders are closed, we have no visitors and no support from the government. What comes now? [LETTER]
We run an agrotourism business. For people like us, the government has nothing to offer. How are we to survive?
12-05-2020 16:56 -
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The complicated preparations to reopen kindergartens in Warsaw
27 percent of parents declare that they are ready to send their children back to kindergartens on the day of their opening - May 18. Will the city hall go on a shopping spree for protection products?
12-05-2020 14:49 -
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The Pandemic's Gender Imperative [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
Given that the COVID-19 crisis affects men and women in different ways, measures to resolve it must take gender into account. For women and girls, vulnerabilities in the home, on the front lines of...
12-05-2020 14:36 -
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Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski thinks the peak of the epidemic is yet to come. Meanwhile, in some regions of the country the infection rate continues to drop
"The minister's musings on an upcoming peak of coronavirus epidemic are based on data epidemiologists are not aware of," says prof. Robert Flisiak, head of the Polish Society of Epidemiology and...
11-05-2020 17:14 -
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Climate Action Can Help to Fight Pandemics [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
The COVID-19 crisis has brought economies around the world to a standstill. Huge swaths of manufacturing have been idled, and sectors such as aviation and tourism are largely shuttered. Amid all the...
11-05-2020 16:42 -
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The Ministry of Justice prepared a draft bill that allows the preventive confiscation of assets which previously belonged to a suspect
- The confiscation of assets and the efforts of the prosecution to achieve it are in conflict with the constitutional right to property. This is unacceptable in a democratic state of law - write the...
11-05-2020 14:35 -
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Democracy ends not with a bang, but with a whimper [OPINION]
For a fourth year in row, Poland saw a strong decline in its democratic rating published annually by a U.S. think tank Freedom House as part of its "Nations in Transit" report. This year's issue,...
11-05-2020 10:47 -
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Kaczyński and Gowin reach an agreement. Presidential election postponed until July or August. Here are the details
"The Supreme Court will invalidate the presidential election initially expected to take place on May 10, giving the Marshal of the Sejm Elżbieta Witek a green light to reschedule the entire voting...
09-05-2020 12:39 -
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Time for Solidarity. Coronavirus weekly round-up
Welcome to Gazeta Wyborcza's weekly newsletter on Polish politics. This week saw the introduction of the first major step in relaunching the economic and social life in the country.
08-05-2020 16:14 -
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Most public nurseries and kindergartens remain closed this week. Private ones have reopened, but only few children returned so far
In most municipalities in Pomerania, kindergartens are yet to reopen. Individual private establishments in the Tri-City resumed their activities on Wednesday, with only a handful of children present.
07-05-2020 14:54 -
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While I feel like a 'man without a country', Kraków is my chosen home [LETTER]
Although I myself am not Polish, my son is, the family I have created here is. I am determined to stay and help my community recover from this crisis.
07-05-2020 12:51 -
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Doctors have to lie to be able to treat patients suffering from infectious diseases different than SARS-CoV-2
Infectious disease doctors: - We must lie that patients with AIDS, Lyme disease or other infectious disease may have coronavirus. Otherwise we couldn't treat them. The Minister of Health banned it.
06-05-2020 16:18 -
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Foreigners in Poland are losing their jobs
Due to the coronavirus epidemic, many foreigners have been left without jobs. In order to help them, Wroclaw residents created "We support foreigners" project.
06-05-2020 15:48 -
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The new reality for retail begins as shopping centres reopen
Starting on Monday, the government began reopening shopping centres. As it is the symbolic end of the quarantine, normal life in times of coronavirus begins.
06-05-2020 13:57 -
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Why was Biebrza forest set on fire? The story of farmers and companies
Companies, if they do it at all, mow the grass at the level of half a meter above the ground. It was burning beautifully. Most of the time they do not cut it at all, because they see it as worthless...
06-05-2020 12:47 -
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"The sector is dead, the sector is completely gone". A music agent: "we will be the last to return, once every other industry re-opened"
- It is like receiving a verdict, but nobody tells you how long is the sentence. We live under enormous uncertainty - at the exact time that Damian was telling us this, the Prime Minister and the...
05-05-2020 16:41 -
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"Forced labour is not the right solution to the coronavirus!" Nurses file a complaint with the International Labour Organization
The new legislation is turning hospitals into labour camps, plain and simple- warns Dorota Gardias, president of the Trade Unions Forum, on behalf of Polish nurses. - No one is listening to us at...
05-05-2020 12:30 -
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A huge wave of layoffs awaits in June. Companies plan group cutbacks, while recruitment for new posts has already been postponed
In less than a month, the number of companies planning cutbacks has doubled. While for now there is no sharp rise in unemployment statistics, economists warn that this is about to change. - The...
04-05-2020 12:03 -
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Where Is the Local News About COVID-19? [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
PRINCETON - During a pandemic, accurate information can be a matter of life and death. People need reliable reports about the impact of the disease and the threat it poses to their city, community,...
04-05-2020 09:52 -
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The Privacy Factor in Ending the Lockdown [PROJECT SYNDICATE]
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - How, precisely, will we end the period of confinement that has stifled entire economies and left more than one billion people sheltering in place? Some have suggested a...
03-05-2020 11:52 -
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Non-certified protective masks are not only a Polish problem. Certification documents are forged at a large scale throughout Europe
Millions of protective masks circulating around Europe do not protect sufficiently against coronavirus. For weeks now, Chinese manufacturers have been issuing fake certificates that do not guarantee...
02-05-2020 12:17 -
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'Anti-crisis shield' designed to protect employment, we only have contractors. We're to pay, not to be paid
This autumn our last building will be finished at the settlement near Arkadia Shopping Mall in Warsaw. This will be a test: how many of our clients who have signed a preliminary contract will...
02-05-2020 06:36 -
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Democracy is at stake. Time for solidarity. Newsletter #33. 01.05.2020
Welcome to Gazeta Wyborcza's weekly newsletter on Polish politics,
01-05-2020 16:39 -
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Philosopher Tomasz Stawiszyński: We await an end to the epidemic but it's going to be a breakdown moment
We are frozen but still semi-mobilised by visions of overcoming the virus and succeeding against the pandemic. All of the: 'once it's over, I'll do this or that.' What I'm concerned about is, this is...
01-05-2020 06:22 -
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While bread prices are about to surge, Polish wheat exports continue to accelerate
Prices of wheat for baking industry are rising. This month prices of bread, pasta and groats are expected to rise about 10-20 per cent on average.
01-05-2020 06:15 -
There is no freedom without solidarity
