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PM @donaldtusk convened a meeting of the security services to discuss a recent spate of false emergency calls relating to properties linked to the opposition. In the latest incident, officers were called out to the apartment of President Nawrocki's mother notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/25/pm-…

The mayor of Kraków, Poland’s second-largest city, has been removed in a recall referendum two years into his first term. Aleksander Miszalski is a member of PM Donald Tusk’s centrist KO party, and his dismissal was celebrated by the right-wing opposition notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/25/may…

Right-wing opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński has declared that Poland must be defended from the “spread of homosexuality”, which he called a “pathology”. He also appeared to suggest that same-sex parenting should be criminalised and “severely punished” notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/24/pol…

Poland’s National Development Bank is providing €24m in financing for a cybersecurity and drone project in Togo involving Polish IT firm Asseco It says the investment is “just the beginning” of plans to “support Africa’s sustainable economic development" notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/23/pol…

For more on the story, see our report from yesterday notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/22/pol…

Poles are evenly divided on the issue of their country beginning to recognise foreign same-sex marriages, with 45% saying it is a step "in the right direction" and 45% saying it is a step "in the wrong direction", according to a new @CBOS_Info poll wiadomosci.wp.pl/co-polacy-sadz…

The first three out of 32 F-35 stealth combat aircraft ordered by Poland from the US have arrived in the country. "This is not just new equipment, but entry into the top league of global air forces," declared defence minister @KosiniakKamysz notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/22/fir…

The government has issued a regulation allowing foreign same-sex marriages to be entered in the civil registry The decision comes in response to an EU court order and marks a major change in a country that does not allow same-sex unions under domestic law notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/22/pol…

The US will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, President Trump has announced. He said the decision was made based on the relationship with Polish President Nawrocki, who is a close Trump ally. Details of the deployment are yet to be confirmed notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/22/us-…

The government’s majority in the Senate has rejected opposition-aligned President Nawrocki’s proposal for a national referendum on whether Poland should continue implementing EU climate policies It said the "absurd" idea was intended to "polarise society" notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/21/sen…

Poland's interior minister has now confirmed that a five-year entry ban has been issued against Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. For more, see our article below

Prosecutors have confirmed that fugitive ex-justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro flew to the US from Italy with a journalist visa. Yesterday they questioned the head of a right-wing TV station as part of an investigation into whether anyone aided his escape notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/21/fug…

The far-right Confederation group has proposed a law banning adoption by same-sex couples, including the adoption of a spouse’s child, saying it will “protect the youngest from depravity”. It comes after Poland began recognising foreign same-sex marriages notesfrompoland.com/2026/05/21/pol…