Hello Irlandia Weekly News 19th January 2022

Poland’s main news stories over the past week have included:

• Foreign Minister Rau warns ‘that the risk of war in the OSCE area is now greater than ever before in the last 30 years’

• Senate panel hears claims that an opposition lawmaker was spied upon using Pegasus spyware

• Sejm adopts the ‘Lex Czarnek’ designed to increase central oversight of schools, and

• Poland is to resume work on a huge hydroelectric power plant 33 years after it was halted.