-- PRESIDENT NAWROCKI WRITES TO EC PRESIDENT ON MIGRATION PACT: POLAND WILL NOT AGREE… - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2025-10-09/

-- 49 PERCENT OF POLES BELIEVE KAROL NAWROCKI WILL BE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN ANDRZEJ DUDA - ACCORDING TO A CBOS POLL: 53 percent of respondents stated that Karol Nawrocki would be a good president, although most described it as "cautious optimism." 33 percent of those surveyed held the opposite view, stating that the head of state would not cope with the position. 14 percent had no opinion.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-polacy-wybierali-miedzy-duda-a-nawrockim-znamy-wyniki-sondaz,nId,22428987

-- NFZ TO CUT TREATMENTS. BILLION-ZŁOTY SHORTFALL IN BUDGET - JUDYTA WATOŁA IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: “Contracts for hospitals and clinics in Silesia are to be cut by one-third. Smaller reductions will affect Mazovia. The reason: the NFZ has never before lacked so much money.”

-- “I DON'T EVEN WANT TO GET NERVOUS ABOUT THIS NOW, BECAUSE I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY” – SAYS DIRECTOR OF A LARGE HOSPITAL IN WROCŁAW IN GAZETA WYBORCZA: “I don't even want to get nervous about this now, because I can't do anything about it anyway,” a director of a large hospital in Silesia tells us. “Perhaps it won't be that bad after all. There are relatively few working days left until the end of the year, and we'll somehow get through this time.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32310524,nfz-zetnie-leczenie.html

-- “OVER 100 THOUSAND ZŁOTYS MONTHLY FOR WORK IN A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT, AND STILL NO ONE IS WILLING – PAULINA SOWA IN INTERIA: “Over 100 thousand zlotys monthly for work in a hospital emergency department, and still no one is willing. The offer exposes the brutal truth about the situation of many hospitals in Poland. – This job is a nightmare, and that's why there are no takers,” says Damian Patecki from the Supreme Medical Chamber directly, pointing to a long list of problems that medics saving human lives face daily.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-ta-robota-to-koszmar-oferuja-100-tys-miesiecznie-chetnych-br,nId,22428958

-- HAS OUR WESTERN NEIGHBOR TRULY LEARNED FROM THE MISTAKES MADE BEFORE RUSSIA'S INVASION OF UKRAINE? - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZECZPOSPOLITA: “Reading Angela Merkel's statements, and also hearing that Germany is demanding Poland extradite the Ukrainian Volodymyr Z., one should ask if our western neighbor has truly learned from the mistakes made before Russia's invasion of Ukraine?”

-- IF, HOWEVER, WE EXTRADITE VOLODYMYR Z. TO THE GERMANS, WE WILL SHOW THAT EUROPEAN MECHANISMS ARE MORE IMPORTANT TO US THAN FUNDAMENTAL SECURITY ISSUES - SZUŁDRZYŃSKI WRITES FURTHER IN RZECZPOSPOLITA: “If, however, we extradite Volodymyr Z. to the Germans, we will show that European mechanisms are more important to us than fundamental security issues. Although they dislike reminders that Poland was right the most.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43145301-michal-szuldrzynski-polska-kontra-niemcy-tusk-merkel-i-cien-nord-stream-2-nad-wojna-w-ukrainie

-- ELECTIONS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC – BABIŠ'S RETURN AND AN ALARM FOR TUSK'S GOVERNMENT - KACPER SZULECKI IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “Slovak oligarch Andrej Babiš wins the elections in the Czech Republic. The eclectic coalition of pro-democratic forces was unable to retain power for another term. This is a painful lesson for the defenders of liberal democracy. And a clear signal for the Polish government – the time for learning from the mistakes of oneself and allies has passed.”

-- CZECHS FOR THE SECOND TIME WITHOUT THE LEFT IN PARLIAMENT - SZULECKI FURTHER IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: “This is therefore the second term of the Czech Chamber of Deputies without any strictly left-wing party – as the liberal-technocratic Pirates can hardly be considered as such. This illustrates the rather widespread Czech conservatism quite well, although not linked to religion, as in Poland. It permeates all areas of politics in a country where ritualistic 'ad communismum' arguments and calling opponents 'leftists' seem to work even better than on the Vistula.”

-- TUSK MUST LEARN LESSONS AFTER THE CZECH ELECTIONS – STILL SZULECKI IN KL: “Poland's 'October 15th coalition' therefore remains without a natural partner for cooperation in Central Europe. The second wave of populism washes away another attempt to desperately patch holes in liberal democracy. If Donald Tusk's government does not learn lessons from what happened in the Czech Republic – and is unable to demonstrate its effectiveness and commitment to principles, nor re-establishes contact with civil society organizations that (like Million Moments for Democracy, disappointed with Fiala's government) brought it to power – then by 2027, or perhaps even sooner, it will share its fate.”
https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2025/10/08/szulecki-wybory-w-czechach-powrot-babisa-i-alarm-dla-rzadu-tuska/

-- PERSONAL ASSISTANCE STILL ON HOLD. REMOVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT'S AGENDA - AGNIESZKA JĘDRZEJCZYK IN OKO.PRESS: “Despite politicians' announcements and the hopes of people with disabilities, the government failed to adopt the draft law on personal assistance on October 8th. This is one of the most serious social reforms of the Tusk government.”
https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/asystencja-osobista-nadal-w-poczekalni-spadla-z-porzadku-obrad-rzadu

-- LIQUIDATION OF CBA? THAT WOULD BE A POLITICAL GIFT TO PIS - JAN ROJEWSKI IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “Today, the government has no tools to respond to this. It has only one option: not to give PiS a pretext for a counterattack and for rewriting the history of the Third Republic. The liquidation of the CBA would be precisely such a pretext and a gift that no opponent should expect.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2317815,1,likwidacja-cba-to-bylby-polityczny-prezent-dla-pis.read

-- 20 YEARS AGO Donald Tusk defeated Lech Kaczyński in the first round of the presidential elections. The second round (October 23rd) featured: Donald Tusk (36.33%) and Lech Kaczyński (33.10%).

-- 14 YEARS AGO the ruling Civic Platform won elections to the Sejm and Senate. 39.2% of the votes translated into 45% of the mandates (207).

-- 21 YEARS AGO the premiere of the main news service Wydarzenia was broadcast on Polsat.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Piotr Uszok, Maciej Małecki.