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AFP - Poland was banned Monday from the EU body representing the member states' judicial institutions over its perceived lack of independence after controversial government reforms.

The European Parliament's Budgets Committee on August 29 approved the European Union's Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support reconstruction in Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Bulgaria following natural disasters in 2017.

Shopping center supply rose significantly, with 1.1 million square meters of new space, making Turkey the most active country in terms of development in 2017 across Europe despite a loss in the currency value, followed by Poland and France, a fresh report has shown.

Sixteen people were evacuated from the premises situated at Wirażowa Street, Wojciech Kapczyński from the Warsaw headquarters of the State Fire Service told Poland's IAR news agency.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks to a British armed forces serviceman based in Orzysz, in northeastern Poland, during a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and following talks on security with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, June 21, 2018. AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

Otokar, a Turkish multinational bus and military vehicle manufacturer, announced on June 18 that it is set to provide 34 buses to Poland's capital Warsaw.

WARSAW (Sputnik) - The Polish commission responsible for the re-investigation into the 2010 plane crash near Russia's Smolensk, in which then Polish President Lech Kaczynski died, said on Tuesday it had found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the aircraft and on the body of one of the victims of the accident.

Poland will this year look into ways of getting compensation for its destruction during World War Two, Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said on Wednesday, cited by Reuters.

"We will talk about the need to compensate Poles for the losses suffered during World War Two," he told parliament in a section of a speech focused on Polish-German relations.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled to Warsaw on Monday for talks with Polish leaders aimed at improving relations which have been strained by disagreements on rule of law, immigration and refugee policy, and Poland's new Holocaust law, as well as a new gas pipeline.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has likened Poland's membership of the European Union to the successive occupations of the country by Russia, Austria and Prussia.

His nation which joined the EU in 2004, is the top beneficiary of funds from Brussels, netting some €10 billion a year (£8.8 billion).