-- MY DECISION IS THIS: I GAVE BIRTH AND I AM FOR LIFE, AND AGAINST ABORTION - FIRST LADY MARTA NAWROCKA IN CONVERSATION WITH JOANNA KRYŃSKA ON TVN24: "First and foremost, I am for life," said the First Lady in an interview with Joanna Kryńska, referring to abortion law in Poland. "My life story tells about it, because as a young girl I got pregnant and faced a choice. I had various things in my head," admitted Marta Nawrocka. "Due to my faith and the support of my family, which I had, I gave birth. Now I have a wonderful 23-year-old son and I do not regret that decision for a single minute," emphasized the First Lady. "My decision is this: I gave birth and I am for life, and against abortion," she stated. However, Nawrocka did not answer the question of whether she supports the two permissible grounds for abortion in cases of threat to the mother's life and pregnancy resulting from rape.

-- FIRST LADY ON THE QUESTION OF IVF: "I wouldn't limit it. If someone cannot have a child, I am not in such a situation, I am a happy mother of three children, I became pregnant naturally, I gave birth to healthy children and I did not face this problem, and I would not limit this right [to IVF] for another person."
https://tvn24.pl/plus/programy/opinie-i-wydarzenia/marta-nawrocka-w-szczerej-rozmowie-z-joanna-krynska-mowila-o-aborcji-sluzbie-w-kas-oraz-stosunku-do-in-vitro-vc8900838

-- PRESIDENT ON X: This year, the anniversary of that decision and the Home Army Day also falls on Saturday's solemn flag change at the Presidential Palace. This is a clear sign of state continuity and an expression of tribute to the Home Army.
https://x.com/NawrockiKn/status/2022611228158218645?s=20



-- THE PRESIDENT WILL BE A GUEST ON RYMANOWSKI'S BREAKFAST SHOW AT 9:55 AM ON POLSAT NEWS AND INTERIA ON SUNDAY:
https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2026-02-13/prezydent-karol-nawrocki-gosciem-sniadania-rymanowskiego-w-polsat-news-i-interii/

-- WE DO NOT WANT OUR ALLIES TO BE WEAK, BECAUSE THAT MEANS WE WILL ALSO BE WEAKER. WE DO NOT WANT OUR ALLIES TO HESITATE, BUT TO BE PROUD OF THEIR CULTURE AND HERITAGE. SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE THE SAME GREAT CIVILIZATION - SENSATIONAL WORDS FROM MARCO RUBIO IN MUNICH: "Sometimes as Americans, we can seem too direct. But it's because we care deeply about your future. Our disagreements stem from a concern for Europe, with which we are connected not only economically and militarily, but spiritually and culturally. We want Europe to be strong. We believe Europe must endure."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75399,32600196,marco-rubio-w-monachium-do-europejczykow-bardzo-troszczymy.html

-- ACCORDING TO EAPN DATA, OVER 17 MILLION POLES LIVE IN POVERTY TODAY - INTERIA: "According to EAPN data, over 17 million Poles live in poverty. 'We are talking about a level of income below which it is difficult to meet basic needs, including, primarily, higher-order needs such as access to culture, recreation, or continuing education,' says Prof. Arkadiusz Karwacki, a sociologist from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-zyja-w-niedostatku-ciagle-z-czegos-rezygnuja-niby-pieniadze,nId,22598366

-- ZAREMBA ON NAWROCKI: HE HAS LEARNED A LOT SINCE HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN - HE WRITES IN INTERIA: "One can only note that President Karol Nawrocki was exceptionally convincing when opening the proceedings. He delivered a speech of over half an hour from memory, in which he very clearly laid out his agenda. This man has learned a lot since his election campaign."

-- ARE YOU SURE THAT IN TODAY'S REALITY SOMEONE WILL ALLOW SERVICE OFFICIALS TO STEP ON THE HEELS OF THE MAIN POLITICIANS OF THE CURRENT COALITION? - ZAREMBA CONTINUES: "To all those who, not necessarily out of love for Tusk, repeat that this is a matter for the ABW [Internal Security Agency] and not for the National Security Council (even the leader of Konfederacja, Sławomir Mentzen, said so earlier), I dedicate the question: Are you sure that in today's reality, someone will allow service officials to step on the heels of the main politicians of the current coalition?"
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-rbn-jako-mecz-nokautu-nie-bylo,nId,22599749

-- POLEXIT DOES NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN PHYSICALLY TO CAUSE HARM. IT IS ENOUGH FOR IT TO BECOME A LASTING SCAREMONGER THAT DESTABILIZES OUR POLITICS - STEFAN SĘKOWSKI IN TYGODNIK POWSZECHNY: "Polexit does not have to become a physical reality to cause harm. It is enough for it to become a lasting scaremonger that destabilizes our politics and social life, and undermines our ability to build coalitions within the EU. Thus, it destroys precisely what we do not need in a country on the eastern flank of Western civilization. Especially in times when history has again accelerated rapidly."
https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/polska-poza-unia-europejska-czy-mozemy-sobie-pozwolic-na-polexit-192808

-- POLAND'S PROBLEM WITH THE 'PALACE CONFLICT' CAN TURN INTO AN ASSET - KATARZYNA SKRZYDŁOWSKA-KALUKIN IN KULTURA LIBERALNA: "Europe is to become militarily independent of America and at the same time be able to count on its help in times of crisis. In this case, Poland's problem with the 'palace conflict' can turn into an asset. A pro-European government and a pro-American president can play their roles for the benefit of the state."

-- POLAND STILL NEEDS THE FAVOR OF THE CAPRICIOUS NERO - SKRZYDŁOWSKA-KALUKIN CONTINUES: "European countries can pursue a long-term goal through this program – to build defense capabilities independently of NATO, in which the capricious Nero plays a key role. However, long-term goals require time, and security is threatened here and now. Therefore, Europeans, and Poles in particular, need Nero's favor. In other words – local rhetorical skirmishes about whether we will now grovel before Trump or call for rising from our knees, are childish, because without American help we will not defend ourselves against Putin. Not now."
https://kulturaliberalna.pl/2026/02/12/skrzydlowska-kalukin-polska-potrzebuje-dobrego-i-zlego-policjanta-dla-trumpa/

-- BIRTHDAYS: Luiza Zalewska-Karłowska, Grzegorz Schreiber, Jacek Cholewiński, Aleksander Bentkowski, Bożenna Bukiewicz. SUNDAY: Prof. Andrzej Wiszniewski turns 90.