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On Wednesday afternoon, the second soldier injured in an accident at the training ground in Drawsko Pomorskie died in a hospital in Szczecin. Both soldiers were driven over by a tracked vehicle during an exercise on Tuesday.

The Polish parliament has adopted a resolution that the government has said will “begin the process of repairing” one of the country’s top judicial bodies.

Protesting farmers clashed with police outside the parliament building in Warsaw on Wednesday, with police having to use pepper spray and accusing participants of violence against security forces.

“We must bring about the restoration of the normal, constitutional framework for the functioning of the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS),” Poland’s Justice Minister Adam Bodnar told the Lower House of Parliament (Sejm) on Wednesday. He was presenting a draft amendment to the law regarding the body. Bodnar also announced that drafts on such issues as the Supreme Court and the status of the prosecutor’s office would also be presented.

With Finland and Sweden joining NATO and Russia’s threat of deploying more forces on the Baltic and Finnish borders, attention will certainly be focused more on the north, Tony Lawrence from the Estonian think tank International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, has appointed the heads of Poland’s security services, announced the Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday.

The European Commission has agreed to work on changes to the European Union’s agreement with Ukraine on the road transport of goods demanded by Polish truckers, the Polish infrastructure ministry said on Tuesday.

Szymon Hołownia, the speaker of the lower house of Poland’s parliament (Sejm), expressed hope of President Andrzej Duda being persuaded to reform the Constitutional Tribunal, which would include proposed changes to the Polish Constitution. If the President vetoes, the government will then attempt to pass changes for the Constitutional Tribunal after the next presidential elections.

The Israeli Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that Israeli students will be able to participate again in organized trips to Poland this summer, namely to former Nazi concentration camps. These trips were suspended in November of last year.

Poland stands ready to defend its NATO partners at any time, President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday, as he observed part of the alliance’s biggest exercises since the Cold War.

Poland, France, and Estonia have jointly appealed to the European Commission (EC) to mobilize “concrete” financing for arms projects in the European Union, particularly in the period leading up to the next EU budget, as reported in a document seen by the Polish Press Agency.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasized that developing a partnership with Lithuania is Poland’s foremost political and geopolitical priority during a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Šimonytė in Vilnius on Monday.

Poland has maintained its leading position in Central and Eastern Europe in the shared services industry with over 1,700 companies operating in the sector, a study has shown.

Polish and Ukrainian foreign ministers, Radosław Sikorski and Dmytro Kuleba, have talked about ways to increase arms and artillery ammunition supplies to Ukraine, Kuleba has said.

Poland has signed a deal to buy anti-tank grenade launchers from Sweden’s Saab (SAABb.ST) in a deal worth around PLN 6.5 billion (USD 1.63 bn), its Defense Minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, said on Monday.

Aleksander Zniszczoł finished third in the ski jumping World Cup contest in Lahti. The Sunday event was won by the Austrian Jan Hoerl.

Poland and Romania have marked, for the first time ever, March 3 as Solidarity Day between the two countries, the Polish president’s office has announced.

The majority of Polish citizens believe that Donald Trump’s victory in the upcoming presidential elections would end American support for Ukraine; a new opinion poll has shown.

Bishops of all three of Poland’s Greek Catholic dioceses issued a decree banning priests and deacons from using smartphones, tablets, and other digital devices while conducting mass or during confession. According to the bishops, the way in which these devices were being used had crossed the limits.

There is no way to halt Poland’s nuclear energy project, deputy Climate and Environment Minister and the government’s commissioner for strategic energy infrastructure Maciej Bando said on Saturday. He added that one of the project’s key elements is finalizing the power plant’s financing.