Polish Lawmakers

European Union lawmakers have voted in an overwhelming majority in favour of probing the use of Pegasus surveillance software by member countries, especially Hungry and Poland.

Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".

Polish lawmakers withdrew draft legislation today that would introduce a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the ruling conservatives and follows massive street protests.

Polish lawmakers passed a new child benefit scheme today which will give monthly payments of 500 zlotys ($125) for all second and subsequent children in a family.

Polish transsexual lawmaker Anna Grodzka said on Friday she would run for president in May elections, breaking new ground in the staunchly Catholic country.

Robert Biedron, who already made history in 2011 by becoming the first openly gay lawmaker in the Polish Parliament, was elected mayor of the small city of Slupsk in northern Poland.

Poland's prime minister has asked lawmakers for an urgent vote of confidence in his government, which has been rocked by leaked tapes of private conversations of top state officials.

Anna Grodzka sits with poise in her leafy suburban home, flicks her hair and gently shoos away her cat. The 57-year-old is still coming to terms with being elected Poland's first-ever transsexual lawmaker for an anti-clerical party that is locking horns with conservatives in overwhelmingly Catholic Poland.

European Union lawmakers have voted in an overwhelming majority in favour of probing the use of Pegasus surveillance software by member countries, especially Hungry and Poland.

Polish lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that would impose jail terms for suggesting Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, drawing concern from the United States and outrage from Israel, which denounced "any attempt to challenge historical truth".

Polish lawmakers withdrew draft legislation today that would introduce a near-total ban on abortion, in a hastily arranged vote that marks the first major domestic setback for the ruling conservatives and follows massive street protests.

Polish lawmakers passed a new child benefit scheme today which will give monthly payments of 500 zlotys ($125) for all second and subsequent children in a family.

Polish transsexual lawmaker Anna Grodzka said on Friday she would run for president in May elections, breaking new ground in the staunchly Catholic country.

Robert Biedron, who already made history in 2011 by becoming the first openly gay lawmaker in the Polish Parliament, was elected mayor of the small city of Slupsk in northern Poland.

Poland's prime minister has asked lawmakers for an urgent vote of confidence in his government, which has been rocked by leaked tapes of private conversations of top state officials.

Anna Grodzka sits with poise in her leafy suburban home, flicks her hair and gently shoos away her cat. The 57-year-old is still coming to terms with being elected Poland's first-ever transsexual lawmaker for an anti-clerical party that is locking horns with conservatives in overwhelmingly Catholic Poland.