The number of tourists staying overnight in tourist accommodation facilities in 2023 increased by 5.8% year-on-year to 36.2 million, as reported by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) on Monday.

Poland plans to join a project to develop a European-wide air defense system to deter potential drone and missile attacks, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a news conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in Warsaw on Monday. - It doesn't take much imagination to understand that Europe is also in a danger zone. So I am glad that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen responded positively to my intention for Poland to join a project in Europe that will build a dome protecting the…

Poland defeated Hungary 5-2 in a friendly hockey match on home ice on Friday in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland.  Action in front of the Hungarian goal during a friendly hockey match against Poland in Krynica Zdrój. Photo by Grzegorz Momot/PAP

The Three Seas Initiative has been the most important platform for regional cooperation over the past nine years, Polish President Andrzej Duda said at the Three Seas Initiative Business Forum in Vilnius. 

Poland's investment attractiveness is growing. For the first time since 2015, Poland was at the top of the global investor confidence ranking. Poland was ranked 23rd in the ranking of countries that will attract the most foreign direct investment (FDI) in the next three years, according to a ranking by the consulting company Kearney.

This year, over 1,400 students from 170 schools from all over Poland applied to participate in the competition organized by the Waclaw Felczak Institute for Polish-Hungarian Cooperation. The event is titled “Poland-Hungary – the story of a friendship.” The winners of the competition will be granted scholarships, with amounts ranging from PLN 600 to 4,000 (EUR 141-939).

Peter Pellegrini, the parliamentary speaker and a former premier, beat Ivan Korčok in the Slovak presidential election run-off by collecting 53.12% of the vote against Korcok’s 46.87%. Peter Pellegrini, 48, will take over the Presidential Palace on June 15. Photo by Vaclav Salek/PAP/CTK (J)

After great qualifications for Euro 2024, the Hungarian national football team advanced to 26th place in the latest FIFA rankings. In the new ranking, the Polish national team also advanced from 30th to 28th place. The first place on the podium is taken by the Argentines, ahead of the French and Belgians.

“At the moment, I can repeat what I told President Macron and other leaders, including President Biden: Poland has no plans for direct involvement in the war on Ukrainian territory” - the Polish PM was quoted as saying at a conference in the city of Gliwice.

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, after a meeting in Brussels with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, informed about the progress in Hungarian-Ukrainian relations. “In recent weeks, we have taken new steps to be able to talk about mutual trust in relations between Hungary and Ukraine again,” Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced on social media on Wednesday after a meeting in Brussels with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro…

The unemployment rate, after seasonal adjustment, was 2.9% in Poland in February, as in January - Eurostat reported. The number of unemployed people in February amounted to 517,000, compared to 523,000 in the previous month. Poland is once again in second place in the European Union in terms of low unemployment.

To mark the 75th anniversary on NATO, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Poland co-authored an op-ed, celebrating NATO as “the most successful defense alliance in history” and playing up the stakes of the war in Ukraine. „European allies should shoulder their fair share of NATO’s collective burden and demonstrate readiness to take more responsibility for Europe’s defense,” the foreign ministers wrote in Politico.

May the joy of resurrection of Jesus Christ fill us with hope and bring happiness into all our lives! Felczak Institute

The Polish Prime Minister warned that Europe was back in the "pre-war era" and must prepare for self-defense. ‘I don’t exaggerate. This is becoming more and more apparent every day’ - Donald Tusk said. ‘The next two years will decide everything’ - he added.

The complex of thermal bath buildings in the small town of Makó in southeastern Hungary has been officially opened after modernization and expansion. The spa was designed by the outstanding Hungarian architect Imre Makovecz.

The narrative of Professor Wacław Felczak's life resembles the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, filled with courage, steadfastness and heroism.