Radio Zet survey via IBRiS agency: Politically centrist = 92% Left-wing = 75% Right-wing = 73% notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/10/a...
Almost 80% of Poles support helping Baltic states if Russia attacks
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"The issue of who Poland should buy military equipment from, and how such purchases should be funded, has become embroiled in domestic political disputes this year." notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/09/p...
Poland secures further $4bn financing from US to buy American military equipment
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"Bzzz bzzz buzz, bzz bzzz buzzz boop! Beep bop bzzz beep boop!" notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/08/r...
Robots "protest" in Warsaw to demand regulation of AI and automation
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"When deciding which businesses to invite on the trip, the presidential chancellery says it would seek “well-established companies with the potential to grow in the US market and seeking new partners and opportunities for collaboration” #TrumpWannabe notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/03/p...
Poland offers businesses seats on presidential plane for foreign visits
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"Demonstrations took place in around 25 Polish cities on Sunday...The protests came after police data showed a significant increase in reported hate crimes against Ukrainians in Poland so far this year." notesfrompoland.com/2026/08/10/p...
Protests against anti-Ukrainian violence held in 25 Polish cities
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Reminder of what PiS stands for: “One of [our] government’s first, most significant decisions will be to deport men, Ukrainians of military age, who are not legally working in Poland,” announced Tobiasz Bocheński, a deputy leader of the party." notesfrompoland.com/2026/08/07/p...
Polish opposition calls for deportation of Ukrainian conscription-age men not working legally
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After last week's migration crisis in Ceuta, Poland has called for tougher EU measures, including an automatic ban on residence for anyone who enters illegally It pointed to its own experience of dealing with "weaponised" migration from Belarus, which prompted Poland to restrict the right to asylum
Poland calls for EU to deny residence to migrants who enter illegally
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"Morawiecki made clear he retains a hardline position on migration, saying he wants “zero Muslim migrants”, even legal ones, in Europe." notesfrompoland.com/2026/08/04/m...
Morawiecki confirms breakaway Polish opposition group will form new party
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AI gigafactories will be financed & operated by private consortia selected by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)...Poland pledged to purchase AI services worth €100 million 2028-2033, with a matching contribution from the EU notesfrompoland.com/2026/07/28/p...
Poland enters race to host EU-backed AI gigafactory
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Sociology is dangerous! Why authoritarians and their supporters attack sociology
The Trump Administration censors sociological knowledge In 2025, the Trump Administration banned words that sociologists regularly use from appearing on government websites and publicly-funded scho…
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fu, zheng@fuzheng.bsky.social · 2mo agoSome history refresher: sociology as a discipline was cancelled in China during the 1950s, quickly after the establishment of the new regime under CCP. Scholars who later reflected on why that happened pointed out two potential reasons:
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“several dozen” German troops...would mainly engage in engineering work, such as digging trenches, laying barbed wire and constructing anti-tank barriers." notesfrompoland.com/2026/07/22/g...
Germany deploys soldiers to Poland to help reinforce eastern borders
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"In a statement on Monday, the ABW said that the 11 individuals have, since autumn 2025, “been recruiting and paying participants for demonstrations organised among Ukrainian refugees residing in Poland”." notesfrompoland.com/2026/06/29/p...
Poland breaks up Russian operation paying Ukrainian refugees to hold protests
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"Apart from laptops, each AI lab will include a “central unit supporting AI services, network devices, an interactive display, a camera with a microphone and specialised software”, says the government." #AISurveillance notesfrompoland.com/2026/06/19/p...
Poland to equip 12,000 schools with AI labs
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"Poland’s National Development Bank (BGK) has invested ... just over 40 million zloty... in ElevenLabs, a major AI firm that has its roots in Poland. The investment aims to establish an AI development centre in Poland." notesfrompoland.com/2026/06/18/p...
Poland invests $11m in ElevenLabs to develop Polish AI hub
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"On Monday morning, police in Biała Podlaska, a town of 55,000 in eastern Poland near the border with Belarus, received reports of a man being shot on a street near the city centre." notesfrompoland.com/2026/06/15/r...
Russian man shot dead in Poland reportedly a Putin critic
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"According to OECD data, Poland spent 1.4% of GDP on research and development in 2024, among the lowest levels in the organisation, compared with an OECD average of 2.7% and an EU average of 2.1%." notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/27/p...
Polish academics protest underfunding of science and higher education
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I heard it from my office, somewhat visible in the distant background. Free speech via protest is important for democracy! But its a lot of loud protesting to kill EU's Green Deal and support Poland's policies that promote pollution and reliance on fossil fuels. notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/20/t...
Thousands join Solidarity trade union protest against EU green policies in Warsaw
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"PGZ will be integrated into Saab’s supply chain and aim to establish an underwater technology centre in Poland" "Growing ties between Poland and Sweden from a strategic partnership in 2024 to enhance cooperation on defence and economic development." notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/15/s...
Sweden's Saab signs deal with Polish state defence group PGZ to cooperate in naval sector
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US and Poland "jointly 'reaffirmed that the relationship is strong and growing' between them and pledged to maintain and deepen cooperation on security, defence, energy and securing supply chains, especially for critical minerals." notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/02/u...
US supports permanent G20 membership for Poland
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"He also expressed hope that, under Nawrocki’s “patronage”, the right-wing opposition could work together “to build a future coalition and, as a result, a government of PiS and Confederation”. notesfrompoland.com/2026/04/23/p...
Polish president's national security adviser quits over "brutal government interference" in his work
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"Last week, Zondacrypto’s entire oversight board resigned, while its CEO confirmed that they do not have access to a large crypto wallet set up by the firm’s founder, who is missing." #CryptoScam notesfrompoland.com/2026/04/21/p...
Polish prosecutors identify hundreds of possible victims of troubled crypto platform
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Head of MON Kosiniak-Kamysz and Minister of Internal Affairs Kierwiński discussed cooperation with the Polish Church in disaster preparedness and other threats, i.e. war. "We are jointly developing a crisis response plan" said Archbishop Wojda. www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/20...
Kościół w Polsce szykuje się do wojny. Powstała specjalna grupa
Episkopat wspólnie z MSWiA i MON opracowuje plan działania na wypadek kryzysu lub wojny. Dotyczy on m.in. ewakuacji zabytków, pomocy uchodźcom, tworzenia korytarzy humanitarnych i zabezpieczenia miejs...
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Q2 2025: "Poland’s public debt rose at the second-fastest annual rate in the EU. That prompted Fitch to ... since 2007, assess Poland’s credit outlook as negative, citing concern over “deteriorating public finances” and growing “political polarisation”. notesfrompoland.com/2026/03/18/p...
Political gridlock threatens Poland's public finances, warns Fitch, citing EU defence loan standoff
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Amazon joins Microsoft and Google in investing heavily in Poland: "including opening a new logistics centre and creating more local content for the Amazon Prime streaming service." notesfrompoland.com/2026/03/17/a...
Amazon to invest over €5 billion in Poland from 2026 to 2028
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"As well as his vocal antisemitism, Braun is anti-Ukrainian, anti-American and anti-EU. In 2019, he declared that “the American empire is a political and military tool of Jewish blackmail against Poland”." #scumbag notesfrompoland.com/2026/03/07/p...
Polish far-right leader Braun visits Iranian embassy to sign book of condolence for Khamenei
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