DONALD TUSK

Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he is awaiting results of an investigation into allegations that Polish consulates sold a quarter of a million work visas to migrants from Asia and Africa for thousands of dollars.

Poland’s conservative governing party and the opposition has showered potential voters with promises as the country's political parties revealed their campaign programs before the Oct. 15 parliamentary election.

Poland’s ruling party leader says voters will be asked in a referendum whether they support the sell-off of state-owned enterprises in a referendum.

Poland's lawmakers have voted to approve an amended but divisive law on Russian influences believed to be targeting the opposition and criticized by the U.S. and the European Union.

As Trump becomes the first former president to face federal charges that could put him in jail, many Europeans are watching the case closely.

Poland’s largest opposition party is leading a march meant to mobilize voters against the right-wing government, which it accuses of eroding democracy.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said unexpectedly that he was proposing urgent amendments to a contentious law on Russian that he signed this week and that drew U.S. and European Union criticism.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum has denounced a political spot by Poland’s ruling party that uses the theme of the Nazi German extermination camp to discourage participation in an upcoming anti-government march.

Poland’s President says he will sign a bill that creates a commission to investigate Russian influence in Poland.

Poland's lawmakers have approved a contentious law targeting the opposition.

Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into alleged abuse of power by opposition leader Donald Tusk when he was prime minister a decade ago.

Poland's top opposition leader has called on the country’s ruling party to fully clarify the facts surrounding an eight-year-old scandal involving the illegal recordings of top politicians and coal imports from Russia.

The mayor of Poland's capital, Warsaw, says he has COVID-19.

Poland’s prime minister is facing questions over his purchase of 4.6 million zlotys (over $1 million) in Polish treasury bonds.

A prominent Polish lawyer who has represented leading political opposition figures and was treated as a suspect in a politically sensitive case has been cleared by a court.

Two mass rallies in Hungary's capital were dominated by anxiety over Russia’s ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine and the future of Hungary’s position in a changing geopolitical landscape.

Two more Poles have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the notoriously powerful spyware of Israel’s NSO Group.

The leader of Poland’s main opposition party is calling for the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate surveillance after reports that powerful spyware was used against three people associated with the political opposition.

Crowds have gathered in Warsaw any in many other Polish cities Saturday to protest restrictive abortion law that critics say has led to a recent death of a woman with troubled pregnancy.

Key European Union leaders are unconvinced by Polish arguments that fundamental judicial changes the country has made would not undermine the bloc and said that the withholding of billions in EU recovery funds would likely continue unless Warsaw falls back into line.

Poland will be a focus of European attention this week, with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki addressing the European Parliament.

Large protests are being held across Poland to show support for the country's membership in the European Union.

An uptick in anti-European Union rhetoric in Hungary and Poland has some observers worried the countries' right-wing governments might be planning to pull out of the 27-nation trade bloc.

Poland’s most powerful politician says the country’s future is in the European Union but that Poland also wishes to remain a “sovereign” country.

Poles have demonstrated against a bill widely viewed as a effort by the country’s nationalist ruling party to silence an independent, U.S.-owned broadcaster that is critical of the government.

Group of Seven leaders began arriving at a luxury seaside resort in England on Thursday for a Group of Seven summit where the world’s richest nations will pledge to give up some of their coronavirus vaccines with the poorest.

A top European Union legal advisor argued that Poland's way of disciplining judges is contrary to EU law.

Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s political future is in doubt after lawmakers passed a motion of censure against him that was filed by two parties in his own outgoing coalition.

July 13: Following a Conservative Party leadership contest, Home Secretary Theresa May becomes prime minister. June 8: A general election called by May to bolster her party’s representation in Parliament to help with the Brexit negotiations backfires. Her Conservative Party loses its majority and continues in a weakened state as a minority government. Jan. 15, 2019: The Brexit deal comes back to Parliament, where it is overwhelmingly defeated on a 432-202 vote. Sept. 3: Rebel Conservative Party lawmakers vote against the government in protest of Johnson’s strategy.

“There will be a veto. If the threats and blackmail are maintained then we will firmly defend Poland’s vital interest,” Kaczynski was quoted as saying in an interview with Gazeta Polska, a pro-government daily. Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and former EU president, said Kaczynski's threat was harmful to his country on more than one level. “Deputy Prime Minister Kaczynski announces that he is ready to block EU aid for Poland so that he can continue to violate the rule of law with impunity. Poland has also come under major criticism from European partners recently for anti-LGBT rhetoric by its conservative president and other top figures from the ruling party.

President Donald Trump meets with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Washington. Last weekend, Serbia's autocratic right-wing president, Aleksandar Vucic, strengthened his hold on power there in a parliamentary election that was boycotted by opposition parties. The Polish election is widely seen as an important test for democracy, in this case in the fifth most populous country in the 27-member European Union. Trzaskowski entered the race late after an election originally scheduled for May 10 was scrapped due to the pandemic. The people of Poland think the world of him, Trump said Wednesday at a joint news conference with Duda.

Wes Little/CNN(CNN) - Europe's leaders have agreed to give two of the top four European Union jobs to women, but only after a marathon set of talks that exposed the continent's simmering divisions. Von Der Leyen's role must be confirmed by a vote in the European Parliament. If elected, she would be the first woman to lead the European Commission. The choice of Von Der Leyen, seen as a hawkish conservative, was designed to placate Hungary's hardline leader Victor Orban. The parliament's socialist group was said to be infuriated by the candidacy of Von Der Leyen as president of the European Commission, the bloc's executive body.