The main news stories in Poland over the past week have included:

• Wednesday’s Independence Day celebrations take place in a much different and more muted format, but with violence once again at the Warszawa Independence Day March

• Covid-19 numbers continue to increase bringing the prospect of a national lockdown closer

• There’s criticism from conservatives over the government’s failure to speedily implement the Constitutional Tribunal ruling on abortion and

• Polish leaders react cautiously to the U.S. presidential election result hoping for the good bilateral relations between the two countries to continue.