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🇵🇱 Sharing and celebrating the best country to ever exist, in English.
🦅 100% made in Poland
🌍What’s happening, how, and why

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill to implement the EU Digital Services Act, saying it would force citizens to fight bureaucracy to defend their online speech ⚖️💻🇵🇱

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Interesting chart 🇵🇱🇻🇪📉

In the mid‑20th century Venezuela was one of Latin America’s richest nations, while Poland under Soviet rule was one of Europe’s poorest economies.

Poland moved from communism to market reforms in 1989

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🧵Poland is now a global video game powerhouse: 470 studios, 12,000+ developers, and nearly 500 games released annually 🎮🇵🇱

It’s the 4th-largest exporter of games worldwide, with 96% of revenue from abroad. Here are some of the top games developed in Poland:

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Poland now holds over 520 tonnes of gold, worth more than PLN 240B, ranking 12th worldwide, ahead of the ECB, UK, and Spain.

Since 2018, gold holdings have jumped from 201 to 520 tonnes, up 80–90% in value.

In 2025 alone, Poland was the #1 central bank gold buyer globally 🇵🇱📷

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Jarosław Kaczyński has called for a nationwide protest on Oct 11 against the EU Migration Pact.
He claims it's a German-led plan to force migrant resettlement in Poland.
Gov't calls it hypocrisy and warns of rising xenophobia. 🇵🇱⚠️

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Poland’s life expectancy hits a new record:
🧓 Women – 82.3 years
👴 Men – 74.9 years
COVID losses are reversing, but GUS warns obesity & pollution may slow further progress. 📈🌍

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A Colombian citizen has been charged with terrorism in Poland after setting fires in Warsaw and Radom in 2024.
The attacks were allegedly financed by Russian intelligence and meant for propaganda use.
The suspect faces life in prison. 🇵🇱🔥

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Ukraine has passed a law declaring the 1944–1951 deportations of Ukrainians from Poland illegal.
The move includes compensation for victims’ descendants and labels the relocations as criminal acts.
It may heighten tensions with Poland. 🇺��🇵🇱📜

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Poland just secured a $4B U.S. loan guarantee for military upgrades—its third since 2023.
Funds will support purchases like Apaches, Patriots, and F-16 upgrades.
Poland now leads NATO in defense spending at 4.7% of GDP. 🇵🇱💰✈️

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Poland will lower—but not scrap—the Belka tax.
Finance Minister Domański says savings & investment gains up to PLN 100,000 will be exempt.
The 19% tax has hit small investors since 2002. 🇵🇱📉

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For the first time ever, a human has beaten AI at one of the world’s toughest coding tournaments.

Polish programmer Przemysław Dębiak (aka “Psyho”) outperformed OpenAI’s system at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025. 🇵🇱🧠💻

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Poland may soon reintroduce anti-personnel mines.
The Senate passed a bill to withdraw from the 1997 Ottawa Convention.

The government says new mines will be safer and part of broader defense plans against potential threats. 🪖🇵🇱

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Thousands marched in Poland under the banner “Stop immigration,” with rallies in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław & more. 🪧🇵🇱

Organized by the Konfederacja party, the protests demand stricter border controls.