Poland Public Holidays News and Updates

2019 (public news feed delayed by 30 days)

• Oct
• 20
• full story

• Poland Votes New October 19 Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Poland's Sejm (lower house), has passed a bill instating a new state holiday, the National Day of Remembrance for Unswerving Clergymen, in relation to the anniversary of the abduction of the priest Jerzy Popiełuszko, on October 19, 1984.
• full story

2018

• Oct
• 24
• full story

• Poland Declares November 12 Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Last night, Poland's Sejm (lower house), passed by a vote of 233 votes for, 105 against and 77 abstentions, a bill that declares Monday, November 12, 2018, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Poland to mark the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence on November 11, 1918.
• full story

2013

• Sep
• 1
• full story

• Poland Calls For August 31 Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Polish Nobel-prize winning former leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, has made a repeated, and last-ditch, call to have August 31, the date of the historic 1980 agreement that legalized the Solidarity trade union, a new annual non-working public holiday in Poland.
• full story

2012

• Dec
• 3
• full story

• Poland Bishops Declare New Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - The Polish Bishops' Conference has announced that the Thursday after Whitsunday will henceforth be a new holiday dedicated to "Jesus Christ the Eternal Almighty Priest".
• full story

2011

• Jan
• 19
• full story

• Poland Epiphany Public Holiday Challenged In Court

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - The Polish Confederation of Private Employers has decided to challenge the constitutional validity of the recently-reintroduced Epiphany public holiday in front of Poland's Constitutional Tribunal.
• full story

2010

• Nov
• 6
• full story

• Poland Epiphany Public Holiday Update

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - The Polish Employers' Federation has appealed to the Polish President, Bronislaw Komorowski, to ask him not to sign into law the recent law restoring the Epiphany public holiday.
• full story

• Sep
• 24
• full story

• Poland Restores Epiphany Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - The Polish Parliament has approved a draft amendment to the Labour Law and Bill on Holidays, which finally re-establishes Epiphany as an official non-working public holiday.
• full story

2009

• Oct
• 10
• full story

• Poland Votes New National Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Poland's lower house of Parliament (the Sejm) has passed a bill declaring a new, August 1st, national holiday, the National Day of Memory for the Warsaw Uprising (Narodowy Dzien Pamieci Powstania Warszawskiego).
• full story

• Sep
• 8
• full story

• Poland Legislature To Consider September 17 Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Poland's Law and Justice opposition party (PiS) has filed a resolution in the lower house of parliament, calling for September 17 to be made a national public holiday, in commemoration of the 1939 invasion of Poland by Russia.
• full story

• Jul
• 31
• full story

• Poland Considering August 1st National Holiday

  Polskie Radio (Warsaw) - Following Poland's President, Lech Kaczynski's initiative, a draft bill proclaiming August 1st a national holiday has already been forwarded to the Sejm (Poland's lower house of parliament) to coincide with the 65th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
• full story

• Apr
• 19
• full story

• Poland Epiphany Public Holiday Restoration Update

  Polish Radio (Warsaw) - Polish Radio reports that the Mayor of Lódz, Jerzy Kropiwnicki, is expected to hand over a petition to the speaker of the Sejm, Poland's lower house, restoring the January 6, Epiphany, national public holiday.
• full story

• Apr
• 7
• full story

• Poland's Parliament To Vote On New April 2 Public Holiday

  EFE (Warsaw) - Poland's conservative party, the Law and Justice Party (PiS), led by the Kaczynski twins, has launched a campaign to have Poland's Parliament (the Sejm) make April 2, the date of Pope John-Paul II's death, a new annual public holiday.
• full story

2008

• Oct
• 17
• full story

• Poland's Parliament Rejects Reinstatement Of Epiphany Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio - The Polish Parliament has rejected a draft bill purporting to restore the Christian public holiday of Epiphany (January 6).
• full story

• Sep
• 22
• full story

• Poland To Vote On Restoration Of Epiphany Public Holiday

  Polskie Radio - Poland's parliament is set to vote in early October on the possible restoration of the January 6 Epiphany public holiday.
• full story

• Jun
• 27
• full story

• Poland Epiphany Public Holiday Restoration Gaining Momentum

  Catholic World News (Warsaw) - The petition launched last March, to restore the, January 6, Epiphany public holiday (abolished in 1960), has now reached the half-million signatures mark.
• full story

2007

• Nov
• 2
• full story

• Poland: Public Holidays Shopping Law Comes Into Effect

  Cyberpresse - A new law, forbidding stores in Poland from opening on public holidays, came into effect on November 1, 2007.
• full story

• Jul
• 24
• full story

• Poland declares 3 Days of National Mourning

  EuroNews - Poland's president is calling for the cancellation of all entertainment events during three days of national mourning for 26 pilgrims killed in a bus crash in the French Alps.
• full story

2006

• Dec
• 21
• full story

• Poland To Hold Referendum On Euro

  Portalino - Poland, through its Minister of Finance, Zyta Gilowska, has stated its intention to meet the euro criteria by 2009 and hold a referendum in 2010.
• full story

• Nov
• 24
• full story

• Poland Public Holidays News Update

  Warsaw Business Journal - President Lech Kaczynski has extended the period of national mourning, declared yesterday, to last through Saturday.
• full story

• Nov
• 23
• full story

• Poland Public Holidays News Update

  IHT Europe - Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski flew to the site of the explosion that happened at the Halemba coal mine in Ruda Slaska, 300km south-west of Warsaw on Tuesday, and has declared a period of national mourning for the eight dead miners.
• full story

2005

• Apr
• 5
• full story

• Poland Declares April 8 Public Holiday To Mourn Pope

  Local Radio Broadcast - The government of Poland has declared a one-off public holiday, on Friday, April 8, 2005, to mourn the death of Polish-born Pope, John-Paul II.
• full story