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UA.NEWS30 October 2026 17:32

On Tuesday, 20 October, the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament, passed amendments to the Criminal Code that would ease some penalties for people helping women access abortion care and restore access to abortion in cases of severe foetal abnormalities.

A man who threatened and planned to attack Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was arrested, the country’s interior minister said Sunday.

Poland has changed dramatically over the past three decades. Once seen as one of Europe’s poorer economies, it is now among the EU’s fastest-growing countries, and its economic weight is increasingly being felt across Europe.