What changed today, and what it means for you

On 12 November the Court of Justice of the EU ruled in case C-254/25, referred by the Voivodeship Administrative Court in Gliwice. The case began with a foreign student who applied to the Silesian voivode for a temporary residence permit in April 2024, received no decision, and complained to the court about the office's inaction.

Since 2022, Article 100d of the special act on assistance to Ukrainian citizens has suspended the usual deadlines in residence cases for applicants of every nationality and limited complaints about delays. It has been extended several times, most recently to March 2027. The Court accepted that a sudden mass arrival of refugees can justify a temporary suspension, but said it may only last as long as needed, and questioned whether the arrivals could still count as unforeseen after the end of 2022.

The Court did not strike down the Polish rule itself. The Gliwice court must now decide the case in the light of the judgment.

The government took ePUAP, the national platform for sending letters and applications to public offices, offline after a cyberattack. Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on 10 November that the attack had been detected and stopped. Officials say the system was not compromised and that the shutdown is a precaution.

On 13 November ePUAP, including its electronic mailboxes, was still unavailable. A notice on gov.pl warns that Trusted Profile (Profil Zaufany), the national login node and signature services may be unavailable from 18:00 on Saturday 14 November to 07:00 on Sunday 15 November.

On Saturday 7 November a gunman drove into Kraków's Main Market Square and fired from his car, killing six people and injuring sixteen, including two police officers. Police shot and wounded him, and he died in hospital on 9 November.

Authorities are investigating the attack as a possible act of terrorism and said it was likely driven by far-right ideology. The government declared two days of national mourning.

Statistics Poland's flash estimate, published on 30 October, put consumer prices in October 3.5% higher than a year earlier and 0.4% lower than in September.

At its November meeting the Monetary Policy Council left the National Bank of Poland's reference rate at 3.75%. The NBP's new projection raised the inflation forecast for 2027; ING's economists expect no rate rise before early 2027.

The government is preparing a bill to tighten the rules for recognition as a Polish citizen. The announced changes include Polish at B2 level instead of B1, a test on knowledge of Poland, a declaration of loyalty, a requirement that the applicant's centre of life and tax residence are in Poland, and a minimum income. A longer residence period is also planned; reports differ on its length, and the income level has not been set.

This is still a draft. It has to be adopted by the government and passed by parliament before anything changes.

Scores of garment factories in Gazipur, Ashulia and Savar were shut on Thursday 12 November as workers refused to work and demanded higher wages, AFP reported. Workers want a monthly minimum wage of 30,000 taka, up from 12,500 taka.

A government wage board agreed on 4 November to raise the minimum wage, but the new rate will only be announced in December and take effect in January. The BGMEA employers' association has called for calm, and some owners are considering withholding pay from striking workers.

Five more children died with measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours to Friday morning, bringing confirmed and suspected measles deaths in 2026 to 1,304, according to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) figures reported by UNB. Of these, 105 are confirmed measles deaths.

More than 245,000 suspected cases and about 25,000 laboratory-confirmed cases have been recorded this year.