Poland in US

The call for proposals in the "Polish Returns 2020. COVID-19 Edition" program is addressed to institutions planning to employ scientists whose research may be relevant for broadening knowledge and solving significant problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, in particular representatives of broadly understood health and biomedical sciences.

In observance of the Feast of Corpus Christi, all Polish diplomatic missions in the U.S. will be closed tomorrow, June 11th.

Seventy five years after the end of the Second World War, we pay tribute to its victims. We remember the indomitable struggle of the Polish nation against Nazi Germany throughout the conflict in Europe, lasting from September 1939 to May 1945.

Marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 2020, we pay tribute to the victims and to all soldiers who fought to defeat Nazi Germany and put an end to the Holocaust.

On 5 May 1945, at 5 p.m., American troops crossed the gates of the German concentration camp Gusen. The main Mauthausen camp was liberated the same day, while the remaining satellite camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen camp system were freed in late April and early May.

Adopted on 3 May 1791 in Warsaw by the Sejm of the Polish Republic (later known as the Great Sejm), the Polish Constitution was Europe’s first and the world’s second modern constitution.

From April 23 to May 2, 2020, a 9-person Polish medical mission from the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw (WIM) will be in Chicago as part of the Illinois–Poland National Guard Partnership, created in 1993. The Polish medical team, which has extensive experience in intensive care, cardiology, nursing care and emergency medicine, will observe, advise and assist in Chicago's medical facilities.

Today in the Italian daily La Repubblica, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki published an article about the challenge posed by the coronavirus epidemic for Europe. Below you can find the English translation of the article.