Hello Irlandia Weekly News 10th February 2022

The main news stories over the past week have included:

• U.S. troop reinforcements arrive in Poland as diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine crisis appear to make little headway

• Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński loses his job over the botched rollout of Polski Ład taxation changes

• EU Commission announces it’ll withhold unpaid Turów mine ruling–related European Court of Justice fines from funding allocated to Poland, and

• the government relaxes some Covid-19 restrictions including announcing the reopening of schools one week earlier than planned.