Hello Irlandia Weekly News 16th December 2021

Poland’s main news stories over the past week have included:

• the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits Warszawa and expresses hopes for ‘a pragmatic solution’ to the conflict between Poland and the EU institutions

• Poland repeats its pledges of support to the Belarusian opposition after pro-democracy activists there receive lengthy prison terms

• final official statistics show that year-on-year inflation reached 7.8% in November, and

• Poland remembers the victims of martial law on the 40th anniversary of its imposition in December 1981.