Beata Szydło

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Warsaw and towns across Poland on Thursday night to protest the ruling party's drive to reorganize all levels of the judiciary, including contentious legislation that gives control of the nation's Supreme Court to the president instead of to judges, according to ABC News.

Leaders from Central Europe said Tuesday they reject a European Union policy that calls for all member states to receive migrants, protesting suggestions that the level of their compliance could be linked to the availability of EU funds to them.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has spoken out against a two-speed Europe as she prepared to head off to a EU summit in Italy marking the 60th anniversary of the bloc's founding Treaty of Rome.

The leader of the ruling party in Poland has stated that Warsaw will oppose all models which create different "speeds" of integration in the EU at the upcoming summit meeting in Rome this week.

"We cannot accept the creation of a "two-speed Europe," argued Jaroslaw Kaczyński, chairman of the Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party for the Polish edition wSieci, cited by Reuters.

Poland's PM Beata Szydlo said on Thursday that she would block the joint statement that normally follows a meeting of European Union leaders after they overrode her objections to re-electing the summit chair, according to Reuters.

She said this would mean the summit was invalid, but EU officials said this was not the case.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has confirmed she will officially block the final statement at the end of the EU summit in Brussels.

This will happen because of the reelection of Donald Tusk on Thursday as head of the European Council - despite Warsaw's opposition.

EU leaders have re-elected Donald Tusk as president of the European Council despite a bid to oust him by his home country, Poland.
Sources say the leaders voted 27 to one to give him another two-and-a-half-year term.
The Polish government insisted Mr Tusk, a former PM from a rival party, had violated his mandate by interfering in domestic politics.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic will travel to the Latvian capital Riga to attend the 5th Meeting of Heads of Government of Central and Eastern European Countries and China on November 5-6.

Thousands of people took to the streets in more than 30 cities across Poland on Jan. 23 to "defend freedom" and protest against the conservative government.

"We are not revolutionaries," said Mateusz Kijowski, founder of the Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD) which organized the demonstrations.

Poland's conservative Law and Justice party won a landslide in the Oct. 25 general election on anti-refugee rhetoric and welfare promises, ending eight years of centrist rule in a victory that risks inflaming tensions with the EU and Russia.