The Latest Breaking News from Poland

In this edition we focus on Poland, where opposition parties have won enough seats in the parliamentary election to oust the ruling conservative Law and Justice party after eight years in power. To analyse this major shift and what it means for Poland's place in the EU, we speak to…

Polish president Andrzej Duda will meet parliamentary party leaders next week, his office said, as the country waits to see whom he will task with forming a government after the ruling nationalists lost their parliamentary majority.

Demography played a role, as did education and the voting system. All provide key lessons for Keir Starmer’s Labour, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The schedule, ratified in Thursday’s FIA World Motor Sport Council, will feature eight gravel rallies, four asphalt events and the traditional snow round in Sweden.  

When a passenger plane was forced to land in Minsk in 2021, one man screamed: ‘They’ll kill me’. Many of his countrymen and women now realise they are also not safe, even in exile

As Poland moves away from the rightwing PiS in favour of a likely coalition led by former PM Donald Tusk, four Poles speak of their hope for the future

Editorial: A remarkable election can offer hope and inspiration to progressive parties elsewhere in Europe

Letter: Steve Crawshaw, who reported on the country’s historic 1989 elections, says hope and belief created this result

Ruling Law and Justice party secured most votes but it appears likely Donald Tusk’s Civic Coalition will be able to form a government

Donald Tusk, ex-prime minister and top EU official, is set to lead a new coalition after eight years of populist rule.

People were seen queuing in long lines outside polling stations in what appears to have been an election with record-breaking turnout (74.31%) in Poland. Now it seems the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) is on the way out of government. Although PiS came away with the highest percentage of…