Przemysław Czarnek
Przemysław Czarnek is a Polish politician and lawyer, a longtime member of the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) party and a close ally of its leader Jarosław Kaczyński. He served as Minister of Education and Science in the governments of Mateusz Morawiecki from 2020 to 2023, where he pursued a conservative agenda that included reforms to the national curriculum and restrictions on what he described as liberal influences in schools. After PiS lost the October 2023 parliamentary elections, he remained an MP in the Sejm and became one of the most visible opposition voices against the cabinet of Donald Tusk.
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Ukrainian citizen attacks Benedictine monastery in Poland, killing at least one priest
A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen carried out a knife attack on the morning of 24 September at a Benedictine sisters' monastery in Jarosław, in southeastern Poland, killing at least one priest and injuring five other people. The attacker was detained at the scene. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk both responded, with Zelensky calling it a "horrible crime" and Tusk pledging full enforcement of Polish law.